Recent Entries in Science & Technology
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Scientists find God (particles)
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about why I'm a Liberal Personal Atheist and why it's bizarre to pretend that someone can't both be scientific and personally religious. It was with this in mind that I enjoyed the following passage in the Guardian's Notes & Theories science blog, written about the search for the Higgs Boson (the full article is here): I groan at the name 'God particle' (so why use it?), but it...
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Man walks into a column, no.17: Privacy
There was coverage at the weekend of a meeting at the NUT's annual conference at which teachers were warned about the dangers of pupils and potential employers getting hold of data posted by teachers on social networking sites. It caused me to think about the general factors that determine whether blurring the personal and the professional - through the means of the online - is or is not appropriate in a particular situation. Like many,...
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Man walks into a column, no.15: Atheism
A little over a year ago, I went to a lecture given by a Christian academic, who amongst a few other things, said that whilst there is nothing fundamentally illogical about God, you have to have had a personal experience of him (it?) in order to be persuaded that he/it exists. I'm a big fan of this idea. I've had no such personal experience and, quite on the contrary, the whole notion of a divine...
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Man walks into a column, no.8: Brains
With apologies to fans of the waking dead, this is a post about the amazing advances in neuroscience and what they mean for society and politics, not a 'braaaiiinnnnzzzz' style post about zombies. It is an 'edited highlights' version of a new publication by the Royal Society, with the picking-and-choosing driven entirely by whatever piqued my interest, so do check out the full thing, available for download here. With that said, things I learned include:...
