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Nope. Sadly though it seems that this "debate" is creeping into British culture... http://www.4thought.tv/themes/should-creationism-be-taught-in-schools

Surely good news in anyone's book! http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/08/cosmos-to-get-a-sequel-hosted-by-neil-degrasse-tyson/

Just published here. By the way, if you haven't read his strips on homeopathy and Andrew Wakefield then you probably should.

As premià¨red at TAM London 2010. Well worth a watch if you're not familiar with it (or even if you are.)

Just saw a link to this place on Facebook. apparently they've been advertising in Private Eye. http://www.arcsurvival.com/ I've rarely seen so much conspiracy bullshit and woo in one place. I'd call Poe except it costs a bit to advertise in national magazines. Has anyone heard of these people...

I found out recently that the Pope can choose just about anything he wants as a Papal name, although these days they seem mostly to choose a name that has previously been used. Looking at a List of Popes on wikipedia, I noticed that there was once a Pope Hilarius, which made me chuckle, but I...

Mitch Benn from Radio 4's The Now Show has a song out this week called I'm Proud of the BBC. It reminds me a lot of Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire but that's not necessarily a bad thing, and I'm full square behind the sentiment. The BBC has its failings but I think it's one of the...

New trailer with some actual gameplay... I can't wait! At the age of 35 (36 when this comes out) should I really be getting so excited about a computer game? Meh. Who cares?

At TAM London someone said to me that their preferred definition of an atheist was neither someone who actively disbelieves in god nor someone who lacks belief in god, but someone who doesn't see the need to posit a god in the first place, thereby putting the emphasis on theists to prove their...

It's almost upon us! I know our fearless leader AW will be there, but who else is going? Should we have some sort of meet-up?

The Merseyside and Manchester skeptics societies just announced the QED skeptical science conference. It's going to be at the Ramada Piccadilly hotel in Manchester on February 5th-6th 2011 and will be hosted by George Hrab of Geologic podcast fame. I think I'll go!

Glad to hear it. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8695267.stm

Hello all, I did science-based subjects at A-Level at school and started to study Engineering at university but dropped out. I've since returned to family tradition somewhat (my dad was a French teacher) by completing a degree in Modern Languages with the Open University but have retained my...