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In a Tele­graph arti­cle I read (via Arts & Let­ters Daily), Richard Dawkins has made the hoax-like move of announc­ing his plans to step down from his teach­ing posi­tion and write a book “aimed at young­sters in which he will warn them against believ­ing in ‘anti-scientific’  fairy­tales.” Although he admits he hasn’t read ‘Harry Pot­ter’ he is greatly con­cerned that […]

I recently dis­cov­ered a series of pod­casts from CBC Radio that I wanted to rec­om­mend: How to think about Sci­ence  —   RSS Feed So far there are eleven episodes, each fea­tur­ing an engag­ing inter­view with a con­tem­po­rary fig­ure in sci­ence, and their usu­ally con­tro­ver­sial ideas. Hosted by David Cay­ley, the reg­u­lar voice of another excel­lent CBC program […]

New Sci­en­tist Space just posted an arti­cle about the detec­tion of a bizarre extra­galac­tic radio burst that seems to have orig­i­nated around 1.6 bil­lion light years away. The lead­ing the­o­ries as to the cause involve col­lid­ing neu­tron stars or even an evap­o­rat­ing black hole.  In any case, I’d like to get a recording!