Surfing in Northern Ireland isn’t like all those pictures you see of beautiful people on Hawaiian beaches. It’s often grey skies, brown waves, and very cold water. But still beautiful people as these photos show…
Because it’s Halloween, here’s a slightly disturbing track from the Bride of Monster Mashup album
Cheekyboy [...]
Once again I am in awe of G.K. Chesterton, having stumbled across this excerpt from his book Orthodoxy (1908), where he dismantles some of the arguments of Nietzsche:
This, incidentally, is almost the whole weakness of Nietzsche, whom some are representing as a bold and strong thinker. No one will deny that he was a poetical [...]
The lovely people at Prank Monkey Records have made a sampler called Anthropoids on Steroids of some of their best releases which you can download for free or buy on vinyl…unfortunately I don’t have a record player, so I’ll have to make do with a free download. It’s a well funky mix of all sorts [...]
Who needs facts when you have celebrity endorsements? A few days ago Michael J. Fox entered the debate by appearing in a 30 second advertisement urging voters in Missouri to vote for democrat Claire McCaskill who would support a proposed amendment to allow stem cell research with human embryos in that state.
Now Jim Caviezel (The [...]
From USA Today: the three year old who climbed into a vending machine to get SpongeBob.
They had to pass him a screwdriver so he could get himself out. Clever kid.
A report in Nature this week tells how one group of scientists has managed to relieve the symtoms of Parkinson’s disease in rats using embryonic stem cells. However, the rats developed cancer as a side effect.
Stem cell research is one of those hot topics which has been presented to the masses as yet another case [...]
My post on Dawkins got linked on ravingatheist.com, so I checked it out and noticed a quote by G.K. Chesterton at the top of the page…
A cosmos one day being rebuked by a pessimist replied, “How can you who revile me consent to speak by my machinery? Permit me to reduce you to nothingness and [...]
No-one wants to talk about it, but it is increasingly obvious that in the UK there is a growing undercurrent of distrust and resentment towards Muslims. I think it has been growing since the events of 9/11, and has been fueled by two main factors. Firstly the perception that little is being done by Muslims [...]
Richard Dawkins getting schooled by David Quinn. Dawkins loves to set up interviews with himself and the sort of people he knows will play into his hands and make themselves, and thus “all” religious people, look delusional. David Quinn (columnist with the Irish Independent) however, manages to get Dawkins into a corner over the issue [...]
Strange how I usually only blog when I’m in work and supposed to be writing my thesis. One might think that I found writing up immensely boring and frustrating, and was looking for any kind of distraction or reason to procrastinate. Anyway, it’s important that I once again put my PhD on hold to share [...]
