Jerry Coyne wrote an open letter to the NCSE and BCSE complaining of a perceived pro-liberal Christianity bias within the organizations, and a tendency for people who work for them to bash “New Atheists”, alienating their allies.
Sony has taken PSN down for the last five days basically because of an “external intrusion” into it, leading a whole load of gamers feeling a mite bit annoyed.
PZ Myers has come across a Chiropractor talking about people having 12 strand DNA, and how we need to learn to activate the ten we don’t use. Dibs on being Gambit.
At the moment the chief most important issue we have in our country are as follows: Poor municipal management failing to get in the money it needs to pay for the services people demand, leading to strikes by municipal workers and people who want their rubbish collected.
In the last few decades we have gone from a situation where communication was hard, to one where we in South Africa have two sub-oceanic cables connecting us to the rest of the world.
A major problem that comes with having moral guardians is they tend to ignore free market effects – they can’t take a like it or lump it attitude.
This year Martin Rees won the Templeton award for saying nice things about spirituality.
One of the biggest warning signs you can see in anything is the misuse of the word quantum.
Freethought Kampala has an interesting piece on the Bio Disc one finger lift demo.