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Monday, July 21st, 2008If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Thanks again to those of you who responded to Friday’s post about Plutonica.net’s Amazon.com affiliation, your feedback and support is appreciated.
Readers, you may recall June’s announcement that Pluto had been reclassified from a “dwarf-planet” to a…”plutoid”, a status it shares [...]
News: Pluto: Planet, “dwarf planet”, and now…plutoid
Thursday, June 12th, 2008Kids, when I was your age, Pluto was a planet, but in 2006 the International Astronomical Union unfairly stripped Pluto of its planetary dignity and reclassified it as “dwarf planet”. Following that, the American Dialect Society voted “Plutoed” as the word of the year. (Ha, ha.)
In 2007 Pluto was further demoted when it was discovered [...]
On evolution
Saturday, February 9th, 2008Richard Dawkins’ The Blind Watchmaker, first published in 1986, was written to counter arguments made in favour of creationism by the eighteenth century theology William Paley’s Natural Theology, published in 1902.
Paley is perhaps best remembered today for his watchmaker analogy, intended as an argument in favour of the existence of an intelligent designer, or god. [...]
Review: Green Hermeticism, by Peter Lamborn Wilson, et al.
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008Green Hermeticism: Alchemy and Ecology, by Peter Lamborn Wilson, Christopher Bamford and Kevin Townley
Lindisfarne Books, 9781584200499, 206 pp. (incl. bibliography), 2007
In 2003 Peter Lamborn Wilson gave a lecture titled “The Sacred Theory of the Earth” at a conference held in New Paltz, New York. This talk inspired a series of lectures and the coining [...]
Review: Sacred Land, by Clea Danaan
Sunday, December 16th, 2007Sacred Land: Intuitive Gardening for Personal, Political & Environmental Change, by Clea Danaan
Llewellyn Worldwide, 9780738711461, 266 pp. (incl. end notes appendix, sources and index), 2007
Last year was the first I attempted to grow anything in our vegetable garden. I knew I wanted to grow organic, but I went in more or less blind. It wasn’t [...]
Priests of Cyprus ordered to pray for rain
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007The Orthodox Church of Cyprus has ordered priests to pray for rain to end one of the island’s worst droughts.
–BBC News, “Cyprus churches to pray for rain“
Christians are funny. Who “orders” prayer? Better to dance, I say. At least it would be more entertaining.
Humans Are Natural Creatures
Friday, November 2nd, 2007There are those (Richard Dawkins among them) who consider certain aspects of human behaviour to be contrary to nature, “unnatural”. Quite frankly, I don’t understand what this means. How could such a thing be possible? What is there that is beyond nature?
With all this talk of what is “natural” and “unnatural” [...]