This is something that has been a long time in the making from local friends of mine whom I met through Transition Fareham, part of the Transition Network, which seeks to tackle the peak oil problem on a local level. Kate and Paul are visionaries who have gone out there and done things make the worl
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Another fascinating video from skydivephil, the pair whom I interviewed here (well worth checking out). This time, the 'before the Big Bang' idea is investigated in interviewing Sir Roger Penrose with regard to the cyclical universe.
Well, without having yet finished, it seems open and closed. Don't get me wrong, both were assured and neither will shift the other's position, obviously. But you simply can't argue against such robust and predictive science.
Richard Carrier plugs a book I have just edited and published, a book by Aaron Adair, contributor here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-bvqLUZjUQ&feature=share&t=2m18s The video
As The BBC reports: Senior Conservative MP Tim Yeo has lost his fight against being deselected by party activists. The former environment minister demanded the secret ballot by Tory members in South Suffolk after the association's committee voted not to re-adopt him as a candidate.
Paper.li is a cool way of disseminating information, blogs, articles and what have you. I have signed the Skeptic Ink Network up to a newspaper which comes out weekly, aggregating our posts,
that my efforts are not wasted. Received a nice email the other day from a Canadian: I've recently bought and read all three of your books. They are fantastic. They are
Daniel Dennett has finally responded (it has been long-awaited) to Sam Harris's short treatise Free Will. The review can be found at the Center for Naturalism, here. I am going to look at what Dennett says, and what Harris's idea of free will is compared to Dennett. Essentially, whilst there is lots
This blog post is very much a timely piece as there is much newsworthiness concerning the Atheist Assembly and secular gatherings in general. It needs to be read so share away! Simon Clare is organiser of Horsham and Brighton Skeptics in the Pubs and one-time atheist street-preacher. Check out his w
We had a Tippling Philosophers night the other night on beauty, and these are the quick notes I sent to someone who was unable to be there. Let me know what you think: My belief is that: Beauty is a word which all too often means "I like that".
So having posted the Philpapers survey results, the biggest ever survey of philosophers conducted in 2009, several readers were not aware of it (the reason for re-communicating it) and were unsure as to what some of the questions were. I offered to do a series on them, so here it is – Philosophy 101