Richard Dawkins does Origami and other things.

Imma post something substantive in a minute, but for now have a look at this:

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Fountain Lady, Imma let you be upset and all in a minute, but right now I've got to say that there is not a single one of the 37 million people who watched you fall in the water 'cuz you were texting and not watching where you were going who has not at some time or another in their life ran into a…
A couple of weeks ago, I started making some changes to the blog. I had hoped to get all of them done that weekend, but the weather interfered with that plan. (It was nice; I went swimming.) This weekend, it's pouring rain out, so I've managed to get a little bit done. If you look at the sidebar,…
And thus, structurally, Richard Dawkins, or his distant cousin Richard D. Poe (I am still not sure) has shut down the argument that the Elevator Guy acted inappropriately when he asked Rebecca Watson over for a cuppa joe at four O'clock in the AM, in an elevator, while she was on her way to bed.…
Congress is in charge of the federal budget. That is a constitutional reality. However, since members of Congress are elected and elections are, well, political, the federal budget is a political artifact. And this is often bad news for science. It all started with William Proxmire. I still run…

the RI xmas lectures are fantastic, this years' are currently being broadcast on BBC4 and are available on the BBC iPlayer (here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/search?q=Royal%20Institution%20Christmas%2…) to those of us lucky enough to be in the UK ;) or for the rest of you there's always proxies (not that i'd condone anything like that or point you to a page showing how to do it http://lifehacker.com/5504673/how-to-access-the-bbc-iplayer-from-outsid…)