Essay Competition: Science vs Religion

Many of you, like me, are readers of Jerry Coyne’s Why Evolution is True website. Yesterday he posted a story called ‘Templeton-sponsored essay contest: Big bucks for telling stories about accommodationism’. It detailed an essay competition offering...

Reza Aslan is Still Excusing Islam

Fareed Zakaria’s Why They Hate Us, updated to include the Orlando massacre, has been playing on CNN again this weekend. It’s an excellent documentary by one of my favourite commentators. (The full 40 minute documentary is at the bottom of this post.) Reza Aslan,...

Simon’s Cat: Cat Logic – Feeding

There’s a new Simon’s Cat video in the Cat Logic series. If you haven’t come across these before, the maker of Simon’s Cat, Simon Tofield has been making a series of videos with veterinarian Nicky Trevorrow about cat care. This one is about...

Reforming the US Electoral System

A couple of days ago I posted a clip from Dave Rubin where he suggested that supporting Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson in polls in order to get him the 15% support required to feature in the presidential debates might help to force the two major parties to...

Who Y’all Gonna Vote For America?

Anyone who follows this blog knows that if I was a US citizen I’d be voting for Hillary Clinton in the November elections. I don’t claim that she’s the perfect candidate, but I do think she’s the best option. She’s wickedly smart, easily...