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That article I mentioned earlier about a collection of statements from atheists on why they don't believe is now available at the New Statesman. You can read all of them, not just mine!

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The New Statesman has an article that asked a lot of atheist luminaries and some lesser glowworms like yours truly to explain why they don't believe in gods. I don't think it's available online (I have a copy, though, and posted it outside my office door, so stop on by if you want to read it), but…
As I mentioned last week, on Tuesday, April 17 I was part of a workshop on Creative Commons our Scholarly Communications Committee put on for York library staff. My section was on open data and the Panton Principles. While not directly related to Creative Commons, we thought talking a bit about…
This is something that came up in some of the comments on the recent "nimbers" post, and I thought it was worth promoting to the front, and getting up under an easy-to-find title in the "basics" series. In a lot of discussions in all different areas of math, you encounter talk about sets and…
John and Cynthia Burke have adopted two children. By all accounts so far, they were a decent couple of an appropriate age and financially able to take care of the kids. The first was from the Children's Aid and Adoption Society in East Orange, New Jersey. They recently adopted a second child from…