Richard Dawkins

Watching David Attenborough’s “Our Planet” series, and it is utterly stunning. The animal photography is breathtaking as expected, but what I notice in this series is the sheer beauty of the scenes: just heartbreakingly beautiful.

Now re-reading (actually listening to) Brian Cox & Andrew Cohen’s wonderful book, Human Universe. Beautifully & intelligently written (& the same goes for Samuel West’s reading). A book that fills one with admiration for science as perhaps humanity’s most sublime achievement.

Excellent account, by Ex-Muslims of America, of the whole story behind attempts to murder Salman Rushdie

The other excellent article by Jerry Coyne today. Some anthropologists want to stop identifying the sex of ancient skulls because we don’t know how they self-identified!

“Once again: are “races” social constructs without scientific or biological meaning?” One of two excellent pieces by Jerry Coyne today.