If you would like to support atheist student groups so they can organize activities such as inviting well-known atheist speakers, holding debates, or perform volunteer services, you might consider donating to the Secular Student Alliance. Not only will you be helping out secular college students with their public activities, you’ll also be entered into [...]
I just saw the premier for Jurassic Fight Club. I was worried that it would be a completely cheesy reenactment of dinosaurs fighting like they’re in a pro-wrestling match, but it turned out pretty OK. While it didn’t go into all the details, they did a pretty good job of explaining how paleontologists [...]
I seem to be one of the few people around that doesn’t chronically drink coffee. While I enjoy a rare cup of coffee, it’s more like a cup every couple of months or less. I don’t drink coffee everyday like some people appear to do. Sometimes I wonder if it makes me [...]
It’s been a bit over a couple of months since I’ve started blogging regularly. One of the original reasons I started was that I hoped for a therapeutic effect from expressing myself in writing. It does indeed seem to help make me feel better and less empty. Another reason was that I [...]
I’ve finished listening to the audiobook version of Spook by Mary Roach. As always, she manages to give a humorous and informative look into the subject, which in this case is the history of the study of the afterlife. It’s striking how fraught with missteps its study were, where many of the researchers [...]
