Notes from an Evil Burnee

For several years I've compiled an occasional series of " Burnee links " on this blog, intended as an archive of various posts...

If you're reading this on a decent-sized monitor you'll see at the top-left a search box and the words " Next Blog» ". The...

Stuff. Lots of stuff. It's what I do. I've many interests, and too many ongoing projects — consequently some of them tend to get set...

On Monday evening after returning from QED in Manchester I posted this tweet: and received this response from Geoff Whelan : Glad...

One question, central to the skeptical endeavour, is most likely to identify the real from the imaginary, the genuine from the fraudulent, a...

As my blogging activity declines (temporarily, I hope) I will now attempt to justify this as deliberate deceleration for the purposes of emp...

This looks like an interesting development. P. Z. Myers has been dropping various hints and/or threats recently about leaving Science Blogs...

My unannounced six-month experiment with one-blogpost-a-day has come to an end. At the beginning of the year I resolved to put up one blogpo...

Maybe I'm looking at the wrong blogs, but I've been struck recently by what I consider serious impediments to rational discourse. Un...

It's Friday the Thirteenth, a highly significant date. (Actually it isn't. Friday. Or significant. Sharp-eyed readers of Notes fro...

Due to QEDcon over last weekend I seem to have let the momentous occasion of my 300th Evil Burnee post go by without comment. I'll cor...

In general agreement with what these people were saying on the Today Programme recently, I think the answer is no. http://news.bbc.co.uk/...

Back in 2005 when I came across the Skepticality podcast, I was delighted to find people who were actually talking about stuff that had bee...

Okay. I appreciate that some people don't care to read about politics and/or religion, especially if they're expecting some geeky te...