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A footnote to the British Empire 29 Jan 2012 | 06:14 am
In his 2002 review of The Mystic Masseur, Roger Ebert wrote The West Indies were a footnote to the British Empire, and the Indian community of Trinidad was a footnote to the footnote. Even intellige...
Farewell, Prof Kenny 10 Aug 2011 | 04:44 pm
I began my UWI experience knowing a little more about the place than the average undergrad. My sister, two years into her time there, saw to it that I knew the general layout of the place, such that I...
Evolution 2011 18 Jun 2011 | 05:49 pm
The 2011 Evolution meetings are in Norman. And I am maybe kinda blogging about it (trying to start blogging again, consolidate my disparate efforts at my own domain). Evolution 2011 Opening receptio...
Doubt is our product 10 Jun 2010 | 04:04 pm
One of the remarkable things about the BP Gulf of Mexico disaster is their denial of the existence of underwater plumes of oil. It seems odd, inexplicable really, for BP to deny what’s been confirmed ...
Hackademe 6 Feb 2010 | 06:45 pm
T. Ryan Gregory (of Genomicron and Evolver Zone) has set up a new website of tips and tricks to help academics manage their lives. He calls it Hackademe, and it’s well worth checking out.
Updates 6 Feb 2010 | 06:01 pm
OK, so I haven’t finished my posts about Darwin’s Dilemma. Can’t promise that I will. But it really doesn’t do any good to not blog because I feel like I shouldn’t until I finish what’s pending. Af...
A Nobel Peace prize? 10 Oct 2009 | 04:16 pm
I scanned my RSS reader quickly this morning. Short on sleep, with at least an hour of work to do to prepare for my morning class, it was meant to be nothing more than a cursory glance. The story – ...
How to write an intelligent design book 7 Oct 2009 | 09:03 am
Yeah, I’m still working on my review of Darwin’s Dilemma…which is how I end up on these tangents. In my review of Stephen Meyer’s talk at OU last week, I commented on his fruitful use of the model th...
Making sense of the DI 6 Oct 2009 | 06:24 pm
Writing about last week’s evens at OU, intelligent design proponent and Discovery Institute fellow Jonathan Wells wrote (with reference to Abbie) Despite her earlier threats to expose publicly how “s...
Berry Go Round #20 2 Oct 2009 | 07:16 pm
August marks the peak of the summer holidays in the northern hemisphere, while September brings the beginning of autumn and a return to school. But as the days grow shorter in the northern hemisphere...
