Richard Dawkins will be interviewed on Australian TV tonight, at 8pm. Since the news down under is full of this nonsense about the canonization of Mary McKillop, I hope they’ll talk about that madness, and that Dawkins will introduce a little reason into the media.
Although, when the temperatures are down around -25°C, we people in the Northern hemisphere don’t associate Christmas with drinking white wine in the sun. The sentiment is great, though, so I’ll do my part and overlook the interesting seasonal reversal there.
Look what Roy Zimmerman had to say on this video:
This one goes out to PZ Myers and the phine pholks at Pharyngula ( http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula)
“Christmas On Mars” will be featured on my “Real American” CD, due out early in 2010. As always, it’ll be available on http://royzimmerman.com/ and at iTunes.
That’s what we need, Martian Christmas carols!
Enjoy. This is part of a whole series at Symphony of Science.
Tonight! On PBS’ Nova! It’s a promising new documentary on human evolution, Becoming Human.
I’m going to try to watch it, but unfortunately, my glasses are broken, and I just got back from an eye exam, so my pupils are dilated and the world is a far too bright blur. I’ll try to see the glowing blobs moving on my TV screen anyway.
Especially since the designer turned the description into a humanist manifesto!
All it takes is an autotuner and a few well-known science popularizers.
I think I like this band, NOFX.
The Discovery Channel is having a documentary about Ardipithecus ramidus at 8pm Central time (in about half an hour). I’m planning to set my work aside for a while and fix a bowl of hot soup — it’s cold here, with a snow storm on the way — and see if they actually do it right.
First half hour wasn’t bad: nice overview of the practice of finding old bones, and a good illustration of the fragmentary nature of the fossil. At the same time, though, it’s also doing a good job of showing how they know the pieces of Ardi are from a single individual.
S l o w i n g d o w n. So far this program is taking longer to watch than it took me to read the original papers. It’s got some nicely done bits, but it sure is taking it’s time, and it’s annoyingly repetitive. It’s also got commercials, and the frequency of commercial breaks is steadily increasing.
I thought we Americans were supposed to have short attention spans. How is this sort of drawn out programming supposed to appeal to the average person with a general interest in evolution?
