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Passionate Minds by David Bodanis, Crown Publishers; 1st American Edition edition (3 Oct 2006) ISBN-13: 978-0307237200 I fear a lapse into hyperbole when I reconsider this wonderful book Passionate Minds by David Bodanis. So if you can forgive the gushing expression of my true passion for this work,

~~Rome and Florence, Italy~~ After an awesome time in London, Edinburgh and Dublin, my sister Taz and I travelled to Italy together. We had not spent much time together in our recent past and this was an opportunity to spend some good quality time together and explore Italy. We landed at Fiumicino I

Bully tactics by Australian Homeopath invites blogging backlash. My fellow members of the Skeptical Army have blogged recently about some underhanded tactics employed, futilely it transpires thanks to something called the Streisand Effect, to silence an Ausie blogger from exposing the truth about th

Book review: Philosophy, The latest answers to the oldest questions. By Nicholas Fearn. Atlantic Books, 2006. I picked up this little gem of a book at a recent book sale. The jacket indicates that it was originally priced near R.90 (ninety rand, my local currency); sneakily, I added this luminous wo

This drawing by my superbly talented friend Heather Martens is just so cool. I met Heather at my first Rumble in the Midlands – a meeting of freethinkers and believers, with a debate format geared towards mutual respect and understanding between such diametrically opposed viewpoints as atheists and

. Edinburgh I arrived in Edinburgh – finally, after missing my original flight. Ivan’s directions to take the 100 bus to Prince’s street and his directions from there, to his house were perfect, and I found his door easily. He buzzed me in and I finally got to meet a Facebook friend face to face. [.