Richard Dawkins is heading to the US heartland for a series of speaking engagements:
He is to address a series of 2,000-seater venues in the American heartlands. The tour will coincide with the publication of his best-seller The God Delusion in paperback in the US in January and act as a prelude to a series of global events to mark the bicentenary of Charles Darwin in 2009.
I wish he'd take a detour to central New York, but it's good to see him walk straight into the belly of the beast.
Thanks to hopper3011 for the heads-up!
- Log in to post comments
More like this
The third season of Doctor Who is over. There's nothing on the horizon for many months (such as the return of Doctor Who or Torchwood) that's interesting enough to me coming out of the U.K. that I'd go to the trouble of firing up BitTorrent to check it out, rather than wait until it somehow finds…
Bassam Al-Baghdady (@Al_Baghdady on Twitter) is a Swedish film writer. He's translated Richard Dawkins' 2006 best-seller The God Delusion into Arabic. Bassam tells me the file may be disseminated freely, so go ahead and download Dawkins' God Delusion in Arabic for free! وهم الاله بقلم ريتشارد دوكنز…
Last month I posted an interview with paleontologist Bob Bakker, and while the scientific questions I asked stirred some discussion (including a response to some of the points from Jack Horner) a number of readers got hung up on the last part of the interview dealing with science & religion.…
You've got to take it with a grain of salt — a politician's self-reporting of what books he is reading is more about image than a reflection of what they are actually reading — but it's revealing what British members of parliament think will impress the citizenry:
In the annual survey of MPs'…