Skepticon 5 Day Two – PZ Myers’“Evolution: Let’s Do the Kinky Stuff!”
PZ Myers: the man, the legend. Author of one of the biggest science science blogs in the world, defeater of communion wafers, sacker of the City of God. For Skepticon 5 he has a talk on evolutionary...
View ArticleSkepticon 5 Day Two – Rebecca Watson on Evolutionary Psychology
Rebecca Watson of Skepchick is a marvel: extremely funny, always-knowledgeable, and seemingly on top of all the latest developments in the relationship between science and culture. I pity any scientist...
View ArticleResponsible Reading
I’ve been thinking about something for a while. What I’ve been thinking is this: that readers have responsibilities as well as writers. More precisely, effective communication is not entirely the...
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Cosmos – Epistemic, Existential, Ethical, and Aesthetic
My bio as a Humanist speaker ends with the words “James was raised on Shakespeare, Sagan, and Star Trek” - and it’s true. When I discovered the works, words, and worlds of Carl Sagan, my world flew...
View ArticleNeil, We Need to Talk
I have some serious words with Neil deGrasse Tyson about philosophy. The ghost of Carl Sagan looks on.Click here to view the embedded video.
View ArticleNeil Tyson on Philosophy – Let’s Not Overreact
Watch this first – it’s my video about this issue which attempts to satirize both Tyson’s views on philosophy and the reaction they have provoked in some quarters:Click here to view the embedded...
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