I’ve never watched a single episode of Doctor Who, but I know that many readers love this series, which I think has been on television for nigh on five decades. Here are a series of cat photos related to the show, and your job is to guess the relationship. These were contributed by Who-loving reader […]
Take note, Simpsons fans. Richard Dawkins has achieved the absolute pinnacle of fame in America: along with Tina Fey, he’ll appear as a “guest-voice” (I suppose that means he won’t be a real character) on The Simpsons tomorrow. Here’s the blurb from The Futon Critic via The Richard Dawkins Foundation: THE SIMPSONS Air Date: Sunday, […]
If I can get $1 per word for a written article, I consider myself very lucky, for that’s a decent rate. But, as The Raw Story reports, during her three years at Fox News Sarah Palin got $15.85 per word—to talk! An analysis by the University of Minnesota’s non-partisan Smart Politics website determined that Fox […]
I’ve always been a fan of Dara O Briain—well, at least since I’ve known of this “strident” atheistic comedian and science love, which has been about a year. Reader Tom told me that not only did O Briain have a new show, “Science Club” on the BBC, but that the first episode was on YouTube. […]
Yes, it’s the old Brewer and Shipley tune from 1970, “One toke over the line”—performed on the Lawrence Welk show! Did they not know what the song is about? Apparently not (see below). From Songfacts (my emphasis): This song is about drugs, especially marijuana. A “Toke” is a puff from a marijuana cigarette or pipe. […]
This should help alleviate the problem of BBC nature shows not being available in the U.S., or sometimes in the UK. According to PuffHo: The BBC has launched a YouTube only ‘channel’ which will feature new nature shows unavailable anywhere else. ‘Earth Unplugged’ will host seven new nature programmes a week. BBC Worldwide will not make […]
Okay, this video has gone viral, and elebenty gazillion readers have sent it to me. So how could I not post it? The story comes from Gawker: To promote the fact that they’re entirely customer-owned, Swedish insurance company Folksam has apparently started taking requests for ads from customers. And, as anyone who has been around customers for […]
Last summer a British film company, Renegade pictures, flew me to Arizona to engage in a dialogue with five British creationists. They, and comedian Andrew Maxwell, were touring the western U.S. and meeting with evolutionary biologists. The conceit was that the five of us (including paleontologists Don Prothero and Tim White), would try to change […]
A few months ago the British film company Renegade Pictures flew me to Arizona, where I was to take on five British fundamentalist creationists (four Christians, one Muslim) as part of the “Conspiracy Road Trip” t.v. series. Three of these hour-long episodes have appeared or will appear on BBC3 television: one on UFOs (to come), one […]
