Rum and Reason

Richard Dawkins appeared in Real Time with Bill Maher last night, and there’s a video up on youtube. Let’s see how long it hangs around for. There’s a lot of controversy over Maher’s reciept of the Richard Dawkins award this year. Read more about that here. Maher may be a nutjob ‘big pharma’ conspiracy theorist, but he made religulous, so we gotta like him just a little don’t we?

Phil Plait over at Bad Astronomy has tipped us off to a brilliant blog in which the voyage of the HMS Beagle, or more specifically Darwin’s account of the voyage, is being posted in good ol modern blog form for us to follow at our leisure.  On the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s ‘On The Origin of Species’ this innovative exploration of the voyage which lead to science’s most important discovery comes as a welcome and fascinating diversion from the troubles of modern times.

Check out the blog over at thebeaglevoyage.com and subscribe!