Rum and Reason » Science http://rumandreason.net Taking a critical look at the credulous, one tasty glass at a time. Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:54:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Richard Dawkins on Real Time with Bill Maher Oct 2 2009 http://rumandreason.net/science/richard-dawkins-on-real-time-with-bill-maher-oct-2-2009/ http://rumandreason.net/science/richard-dawkins-on-real-time-with-bill-maher-oct-2-2009/#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:15:36 +0000 Dave http://rumandreason.net/?p=23 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?

]]> http://rumandreason.net/science/richard-dawkins-on-real-time-with-bill-maher-oct-2-2009/feed/ 0 Charles Darwin blogs about the voyage of the Beagle http://rumandreason.net/evolution/charlse-darwin-blogs-about-the-voyage-of-the-beagle/ http://rumandreason.net/evolution/charlse-darwin-blogs-about-the-voyage-of-the-beagle/#comments Sun, 04 Oct 2009 05:12:16 +0000 Dave http://rumandreason.net/?p=6 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!

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