Because it’s summer time…

Siris has an interesting post on one Father Hell, SJ, one of the greatest astronomers of the 17th century.

Via Mark Shea.

I’ve been away for a while, so I’m not sure whether any of the crew at scienceblogs have had a look at David Sloan Wilson’s essay sent in the latest Skeptic email by Michael Shermer. He takes Dawkins to task for having little or nothing to offer to back up his claims about the evolutionary… Continue reading

It’s early July, and vacation thoughts take me to the Villa del Sogno, the villa of dreams…on the shores of Italy’s Lake Garda. It also makes me think of William Trevor’s short stories, because I was reading a collection of them the last time I was there.