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  My granddaughter Zoë is coming for Christmas, from Los Angeles. She's bringing her parents. That means two of my little girls (mother...

De mortuis nil nisi bonum is a Latin phrase which indicates that it is socially inappropriate to say anything negative about a (recently) d...

  I like John Wilkins. If he lived in Toronto I would want to talk to him several times a week and I'd even pay for the the coffee and ...

We've been discussing the perceived conflict between agnosticism and atheism. I believe they are compatible. Most prominent atheists ar...

  Most people know that there are two common definitions of atheism/atheist. Here's an excellent example from two different dictionarie...

My mother has been working on genealogy for several decades. She recently gave me a little book called My Ancestors Came with the Conqueror ...

  John Wilkins has tried, again, to explain the difference between an atheist and an agnostic [ Positivism about agnosticism ]. My positio...

  Har Gobind (Hargobind) Khorana was a biochemist specializing in polynucleotide synthesis. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology o...

There's news of an Ipsos Reid poll from September 2011 [ Canadians Split On Whether Religion Does More Harm in the World than Good ]. It...

  The 25th Whole Life Expo takes place next weekend in Toronto (Ontario, Canada) at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre [ Whole Life Expo 2...

  Today's molecule has a common name but this time I'll need the complete IUPAC name. There is considerable controversy over whethe...

  Last summer, the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons published a draft proposal on Non-Allopathic (Non-Conventional) Therapies in ...

  I completely forgot about Sandwalk's blogiversary. It's a biggie! My first post was on Nov. 4, 2006 [ Welcome to my Sandwalk ]...

  John Hawks posts a reference to an article in MacLeans magazine about undergraduate teaching. John supports a style of teaching that emph...