Evolution Guest post for comment: sex and evolution 1 Feb 2011 The following (below the fold) has been sent to me by Tam Hunt for comment by our readers. Constructive comment, that is. Tam’s own blog is here. Continue Reading
Guest post On Negation 28 Sep 2010 Jim Harrison is a regular commenter who made an important comment on my piece on Creativity. I invited him to do a guest post, and this is it, below the fold: Continue Reading
Book A book review: Merchants of Doubt 30 Aug 201024 Nov 2022 This guest review is courtesy of Richard Harter, whose own website is here. Continue Reading
General Science Even the Good Guys get it wrong! 10 Sep 200818 Sep 2017 Another guest post by Thony Christie John recently provided a link to a review of Steve Fuller’s newest book by Anthony Grayling. On the whole I find Professor Grayling’s comments excellent and applaud his put-down of Fuller but then in the last section of his review he goes and spoils… Continue Reading
Guest post Ten things you don’t know about the Earth 8 Sep 2008 Ten things you don’t know about the Earth – Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy considers the following propositions: 1) The Earth is smoother than a billiard ball. 2) The Earth is an oblate spheroid 3) The Earth isn’t an oblate spheroid 4) The Earth is not exactly aligned with its… Continue Reading
General Science Rodney Stark’s idiotic history 6 Sep 200818 Sep 2017 Thony Christie, a regular commenter on this blog, is also a historian of science, and he sent the following guest post that I thought well worth publishing. Commentator “Adam” asked John’s opinion on a book he is reading, The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western… Continue Reading
General Science Magnetic anomaly map finished 4 Nov 200718 Sep 2017 [A guest post by palentologist and geologist Chris Nedin] It’s taken the best part of 50 years but it’s finally here! 50 years after the International Geophysical Year (1957-8) that took a global geophysical view of the globe, one of the outcomes of that global geophysical view has just been… Continue Reading