Cheap flights make playboys of us all. To Geneva (for less than 100 euros return, for two) to meet up with an old friend who foolishly suggested a few weeks ago that we go see Bob Dylan play Zurich. Of course I soon discovered that Bob would be playing Bologna on Thursday and Milan on Saturday. But I know nobody in either place, and the point was not merely to see Bob but to do so with friends and generally Have A Good Time.

Which we duly did.

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I’m pretty much at a loss for words about Kansas deciding, not for the first time, to implement education standards that “cast doubt on evolution”. It follows hard on the news that Dover, Pennsylvania kicked out all eight IDiot members of its school board who forced science teachers to read a stat...

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The permanent lesson that the Galileo case represents pushes us to keep alive the dialogue between the various disciplines, and in particular between theology and the natural sciences, if we want to prevent similar episodes from repeating themselves in the future.

The, er, wise words of Cardin...

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My ego knowing no bounds I recently installed a spiffy web analyzer called Slimstat. There were problems -- aren't there always? -- but eventually I got it up and running and could see how few people were visiting my site. Then I had to reinstall it, because I had messed up the first time. Now I s...

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The things some people will stoop to. I was amazed to discover that the second most popular bookmark on del.icio.us when I looked a minute ago was 13 things that do not make sense. Well, that's not so amazing. What is amazing is that whoever sixside is gave no credit whatsoever to New Scientist,...

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