Reason & Society

I just finished reading Janna Levin 's novelization A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines . It is a superb piece of writing. At the end th...

So I’m Not The Only Black Skeptic by Jamila Bey. NPR, October 8, 2010. Lovely Jamila (at right, above) is charming as ever. I can't ...

Dawkins, moved by the technological prowess of physicists poised to penetrate the secrets of the universe, extols  the Large Hard-On Collide...

Here is a video recording of the entire proceedings of 28 September. (I can be seen in the audience, but I won't say where & when.) ...

The final audience question posed at the Sept. 28 symposium featuring Tyson and Dawkins was a hostile one. Here is a video record of the que...

Nothing terribly original was said, but presumably the goal was to stimulate the imagination of the audience via the two fields of expertise...

I attended the dialogue between Richard Dawkins & Neil de Grasse Tyson on "The Poetry of Science" at Howard University in Wa...