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Creationists on Campus!

By Richard Hughes

10
Mar. 10

Cross-​​​​posted from Divisible By Pi
Today began as most days do. Wake up, have a shower, brush my teeth, feed the goat that has taken up residence in my dishwasher, and then head off to uni. On my way home from uni, however, things got interesting.
Some of you may remember a while back Ray Comfort wrote an introduction […]

Cross posted at Divisible by Pi.
…as in the case of ;this article on Conservapedia. Currently my mind is playing a kind of tug-​​​​of-​​​​war with itself; as I sit here, I can’t help but try to convince myself that this is absolutely the bottom of the barrel, and that it doesn’t get any worse than this. At […]

Counterintuitive Maths: Part One

By Richard Hughes

02
Mar. 10

Cross posted at my new blog, Divisible By Pi…
We’ve all had it. You’ve just made a new acquaintance, or a number of new acquaintii (learn it, love it, use it  —  that plural is here to stay!), and inevitably they’ll want to know what it is you actually do with your time in real life. Being a student […]

I mean seriously, folks  —  Dolly was cloned in 1996. I think we can stop referring to it as ‘breaking news’…

…if only someone would tell Answers In Genesis.

…or, more accurately I suppose, from the towns, cities, and overgrown temples  —  the last being the closest to the jungle I can legitimately say I trekked. Really I’ve been back a few days already now, but it’s taken a bit of time to get normal life organised again (whatever ‘normal life’ is), so this is really […]

Tales from…Phnom Penh?

By Richard Hughes

21
Jan. 10

Most regular readers of the site will know of my ongoing troubles with internet connections. Fewer will know the extreme lengths I have gone to so that I may blog to you today  —  I have fled Australia for foreign shores, so that I may find bandwidth.
A few days ago, on the 18th, I arrived in Phnom Penh.

Musings for a New Year

By Richard Hughes

02
Jan. 10

I must again apologise for my prolonged absence and the current hiatus on Tales From the Tubes  —  believe me, I don’t like it any more than you do. I’ve spent the last few weeks gradually moving house and trying to get things organised, and while the house theoretically has a phone line installed somewhere, we can […]

Tales from the Tubes — 24/​12/​09

By Richard Hughes

24
Dec. 09

Right now, I’m about to head off to a Christmas Eve dinner (that we’re running late for…hurry up, mum!)  —  that, therefore, is my excuse for not having a bunch of links for you today. As such, in the spirit of the holiday, here is a video of a cat on a trampoline.
C’est magnifique!

Tales from the Tubes — 18/​12/​09

By Richard Hughes

18
Dec. 09

Apologies for the lack of a Tales from the Tubes yesterday  —  some of you may know that I’ve been living without internet on the floor of an apartment for the last month-ish…well,  yesterday that changed! Sort of  —  I’ve finally been accepted for a house, so we’ll be going in on Monday to get keys and sign the […]

A Comfortable Autopsy: Retrospective

By Richard Hughes

10
Dec. 09

Those of you who have been reading YAS for a while now may remember that back in July of last year I started writing a chapter by chapter review of Ray Comfort’s excrementally bad book You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence But You Can’t Make Him Think. For those who haven’t been around that long, […]