The Goodman Gallery has a painting at the moment of the president looking action figurish with his penis exposed.
When we silence those we disagree with, we silence ourselves.
The Times recently ran a few articles about how social networking is negatively impacting children, which have left me feeling dubious.
Sceptics often face the argument that we should just leave the promotion superstition alone, that it is all just harmless fun.
I was raised on video games – and they have given me valuable insights into the world that somehow still manage to hold true even through they were targeted at 15 year olds.
At the moment in Russia there is a guy called Sergey who was arrested for supporting gay rights.
Mass Effect 3 is one of the best games out this year, but it is unfortunately marred with one of the worst endings in the last decade.
There is a tactic often used by the dishonest – they will tackle the form something is said in rather than what is actually being said or otherwise shift focus away from themselves.
The US right now kind of echoes the USSR in some ways – and it highlights to me the issue with communism and capitalism.
Econometrix has released a paper stating that fracking could create upwards of 290 thousand jobs.
I grew up on various video games – beginning with the Atari and moving up through the Nintendo, the Genesis, the Playstation and finally to where I am now with all the current major systems.
Every time Nelson Mandela gets sick the office gets tense as people look for news of Mandela’s death, and we have been getting tense about this for years because Mandela is an old man.
Alleged newspaper the Daily Telegraph put up a story fairly recently that revealed that one of Dawkins ancestors was a slave owner back in the 18th century.
A recent post on Slacktivist accusing Greta Christina of “purest evil” for arguing in favour of atheist evangelism has highlighted several major issues with the tolerance community.
One of the clichés of science communication is that scientists are poor communicators – and it is nonsense.
This year has already seen some highly disturbing moves by religious people to squash the rights of everyone else.
Porn is one of those things that it is very hard to defend, mainly because it is so socially frowned upon, and yet it requires defending.
This weekend one of the things I was listening to was a talk on the Stop Online Piracy Act, and how the copyright wars are only the start of issues arising out of modern computing.
Evolutionary psychology is one of those branches of cutting edge science that leaves me thinking about how the cutting edge tends to be the thinnest part of a blade.
I was raised to the ideal of Christmas being a general sense of goodwill to all people.
The charge of ‘scientism’ is always a big warning sign that the person making the charge doesn’t really have much of an argument.
Philosophy, the study of arguments, is one of those fields that is often under-appreciated in terms of its real value, particularly if you look at the fallacies.
Evolution is often rendered as “Survival of the fittest” – and often people make the mistake of thinking that means the organism most likely to exterminate its competition.
Bruce Gorton writes about how a bill to regulate the Internet reflects on just where Occupy Wall Street is coming from.
A lot of people bemoan the loss of that feeling we had back when Apartheid ended, that exciting and almost exhilarating sense of adventure that embarking on a whole new nation brought.
