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I’m always thrilled whenever I rediscover by chance a typical Richard Dawkins gem like this one. A nice old-fashioned answer is that...

In view of my total enthusiasm for the work in evolutionary biology of my hero Richard Dawkins , it's surprising that I should be equall...

About a month ago, I caught sight of a small animal cantering down the road from my house, in the style of a rabbit. I only had a rear view ...

As a child in South Grafton, I was expected to admire a gushy poem penned by a young American Catholic fellow named Joyce Kilmer , killed in...

I would imagine that most people have heard, by now, of the English intellectual Richard Dawkins . But it's unlikely that they...

In my recent blog post entitled Children's books [ display ] , I indicated that Richard Dawkins has a book for children coming out soo...

Rick Perry (who could well become the next US president) is an appallingly dumb guy, with a big mouth and a tiny intellect, who knows fuck-...

Obviously, you can only perform a certain activity correctly, or appreciate something you hear or read about, if you possess a minimum of aw...

The problem, if I don't manage to sell this book—which I bought out in Australia in 1961, shortly before leaving for Europe—is that I mi...

When I saw Richard Dawkins sitting down in front of a piano, I was afraid that he might be about to give us a rendition of an old Anglican ...

This is a great video. Towards the end, we discover Richard Dawkins reposing on a sofa in front of a fireplace and reading out his hate mai...

My article of October 27, 2019 entitled Donkey expedition day [ display ] described the long walk of Sylvie Rozand and me, leading three ...

In his Pharyngula blog [ display ] , the biology professor PZ Myers warns us immediately of every tiny flame of crazy Creationism or insip...

In 1987, when I was lecturing in computing out at the Curtin University in Perth, I once told my students (who knew I'd been living in F...