[display_podcast] Mark Vernon is a writer, broadcaster, journalist, blogger and an honorary research fellow at Birkbeck College. He has a PhD in Philosophy from Warwick University. Mark was a priest in the Church of England between 1994-96, but quit the church as an Atheist. Mark now sees himself firmly as an Agnostic. His books include […]
October 23, 2009
[display_podcast] Marcus Chown is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. Formerly a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, he is now cosmology consultant of the weekly science magazine New Scientist. Marcus has written a number of popular science books, including The Magic Furnace, The Universe Next Door, The Never-ending Days of Being […]
October 16, 2009
[display_podcast] Adam Rutherford is a professional geek. He holds a PhD in genetics, is an editor at the science journal Nature, and presents radio and television programs, including Cell for BBC4: a series covering four billion years of evolution and 300 years of biology, intrigue, betrayal and rather more sperm than is absolutely necessary. Writing […]
October 9, 2009
The Amazing Meeting (TAM), London took place on the 3rd and 4th October 2009, and saw around 600 Skeptics converge for a fundraising celebration of science, critical thinking and entertainment in the heart of the city, on behalf of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF). Neil Denny of Little Atoms, and Rebecca Watson (The Skeptics’ […]
October 2, 2009
[display_podcast] Peter Cave is the author of Humanism: A Beginner’s Guide, which BHA President Polly Toynbee described as “A book for our times”, and of the best-selling Can a Robot Be Human? and What’s Wrong with Eating People? – both books containing 33 puzzles about religious belief as well as about reasoning, logic, ethics and political themes. His […]
October 30, 2009
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