A religion and science debate continued.

Below is a response to a response to a critique of a number of articles.  I had wanted it to appear as a continuation of a debate beneath a friend’s Continue reading →

Rally for Science in Victoria – Friday in Victoria

Science is a thing that I like.  Stephen Harper’s cutting major funding for the sciences, not to mention dismissing and muzzling the scientific community, is something that I don’t like. Continue reading →

Flying high and kites.

This is kiteboarding.  You may have seen it before.  If you’re like me, you probably think it looks impossibly hard – a sport designed only for the super-fit adrenaline-junkies out Continue reading →

Intelligence, teens, and the reefer.

There is a new hip thing that all the kids are doing these days – they take dried leaves off a hemp plant, roll them up into a little cigarette, Continue reading →

more than dicks and swears.

one of the luxuries of being a guy is that when you’re peeing you get to stand up and look at the wall while you hold your weiner.  usually the Continue reading →

pen head.

do you ever have it where you get an itchy head while you’re studying so you use the butt-end of the pen you’re holding to scratch while you keep reading, Continue reading →

evolution/science/religion debate.

I’ve recently been having a bit of an online debate with a fellow lab-mate of mine who is a PhD student in my neuroscience lab. I was surprised, as you Continue reading →

TED morning to you.

This morning I woke up.  I rolled out of bed.  I put peanut butter on crunchy hot bread.  And I did what I like to do in the morning when Continue reading →

a quote.

“I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always Continue reading →

are you radical?

Hey everybody, Rosie’s Dad made a website called iamaradical.ca in opposition to the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline from the tar sands in northern Alberta to Kitimat, BC. If you haven’t Continue reading →