John Cleese demonstrates why the best way to deal with zealots (of any stripe) is to make fun of them. (‘Well, what do we live for, eh? To make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn.”)
Author: John Farrell
Writer and producer working in Boston.
I guess the temptation for some militants to create straw men… is just too great. Guest poster Thony Christie over at John Wilkins’ blog takes A.C. Grayling to the wood shed on a little understood episode in the history of science.
Dan Rayburn speaks for all of us in the digital video delivery business with a good piece lamenting the standard misconceptions too often and easily perpetuated by media journalists. The author says that, “Multimedia communication — particularly video — has caused a strain on public networks, degrading the quality, so privatized networks have become more… Continue reading
Believe it or not, there are some places around the Matrix blogosphere where theists and atheists actually have meaningful debates…
Closing in on the Dawn…before Darwin? In a paper released this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Mansy and Szostak showed that the special membranes, fat bubbles essentially, were stable under a variety of temperatures and could have manipulated molecules like DNA through simple thermal cycling, just like scientists do in… Continue reading