tomphippen.com » Science http://www.tomphippen.com My Blog about stuff Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:38:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Has the internet taken the fun out of door-to-door fundamentalism? http://www.tomphippen.com/2010/01/has-the-internet-taken-the-fun-out-of-door-to-door-fundamentalism/ http://www.tomphippen.com/2010/01/has-the-internet-taken-the-fun-out-of-door-to-door-fundamentalism/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:07:16 +0000 tom http://www.tomphippen.com/?p=248 It’s just with the internet you get to see new and completely ridiculous defences of creationism, the people who show up at your door are still going on about the odds of abiogenesis and using God-of-the-gaps arguments.

And generally English fundies aren’t as openly mental as their US counterparts so trying to trick them into saying something offensive doesn’t work.

]]> http://www.tomphippen.com/2010/01/has-the-internet-taken-the-fun-out-of-door-to-door-fundamentalism/feed/ 0 So, now that the snow’s melted… http://www.tomphippen.com/2010/01/so-now-that-the-snows-melted%e2%80%a6/ http://www.tomphippen.com/2010/01/so-now-that-the-snows-melted%e2%80%a6/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:00:50 +0000 tom http://www.tomphippen.com/?p=242 …will the people who said global warming isn’t happening now admit that it’s warmer than a week ago therefore we’re all going to die (at the current rate the temperature will have increased to over 200°C by the end of the year)?

]]> http://www.tomphippen.com/2010/01/so-now-that-the-snows-melted%e2%80%a6/feed/ 0 Neo Old Atheist http://www.tomphippen.com/2009/09/neo-old-atheist/ http://www.tomphippen.com/2009/09/neo-old-atheist/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:38:21 +0000 tom http://www.tomphippen.com/?p=223 Apparently “‘New’ Atheists” are middle class, university educated snobs. Which was a bit of a blow for me, I guess I could try and listen to uneducated people who believe in the religion their parents happened to force on them. But instead I’ve decided to label myself a Neo Old Atheist1

On the subject of atheism Jonathan Meades: Off Kilter, especially episode 2 is half-mad, half-insane brilliance. And it’s hard for me to praise a former foodie, architecture critic.

1 The schism between the old and new atheists is that old atheists don’t believe in a theistic god, and the new atheists don’t believe in a theistic god.

]]> http://www.tomphippen.com/2009/09/neo-old-atheist/feed/ 0 Very nerdy http://www.tomphippen.com/2009/08/very-nerdy/ http://www.tomphippen.com/2009/08/very-nerdy/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:34:21 +0000 tom http://www.tomphippen.com/?p=181 A bunch of lectures by Richard Feynman. Nice of Billy to put them online, shame it’s streaming, using silverlight. Be much nicer to download some .mp4s

]]> http://www.tomphippen.com/2009/08/very-nerdy/feed/ 0 A free chapter of Bad Science http://www.tomphippen.com/2009/04/a-free-chapter-of-bad-science/ http://www.tomphippen.com/2009/04/a-free-chapter-of-bad-science/#comments Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:39:15 +0000 tom http://www.tomphippen.com/?p=105 Unpublished as the guy it’s about was suing him. The Book’s great as well.

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