At least I’ve found them interesting. Recently I’ve enjoyed listening to audio online again.
Creationism, Minus a Young Earth, Emerges in the Islamic World
Actually this one is text.
I started my undergrad in Religion at Queens. It was a mistake. I was always interested in religion but I should have chosen the sociology of religion. This is closer to where I’m at these days: Dance monkey dance
Yet again, I feel like I’ve been influenced by the latest Neale Stephenson novel. The timeline of it is very Long Now. That combined with an Elaine Pagels book (my first) read shortly after on the history of Early Christianity (social construction (def from wikipedia) / watching the sausage being made) has me seriously interested in athiesm for the first time – not as a question of personal practice, but to seriously think about what an athiestic worldview would be like and whether it would be better suited to querying ostensibly non-religous replacements (transhumanism and the human potential movement, some strains of climate change, and ahistoricty just generally. Ooh – I just re-made up the term “temporal chauvisnism” and found lots of hits. :) “Epochal chauvinism” has only two hits). I have never been interested in athiesm at any point before – even when that last rash of books came out a few years back.
This is kinda depressing: Ralph Nader’s Flight of Fantasy. It’s the latest interview from Open Source Radio – which has nothing to do with technology or open source. It’s a great political and cultural radio show out of Brown University. This interview is with Ralph Nader about his just published book.
This is also from Radio Open Source, but I found it much less depressing, even though the Ralph Nader story is trying to be optimistic and this isn’t: Chris Hedges: Requiem for the Reading Republic
I guess I’m more saddened by false hope than by actual pessimism. :/
Lastly – I very much enjoyed this and am looking forward to reading a few of the biographies in the series: Extraordinary Montrealers Episode | CBC Radio: The Best of Ideas
IDEAS host Paul Kennedy convenes a panel discussion about four famous Montrealers featuring four eminent Canadians who have recently written their biographies: Margaret Macmillan on Stephen Leacock, Adrienne Clarkson on Norman Bethune, M. G. Vassanji on Mordecai Richler, and Nino Ricci on Pierre Trudeau.
As a heads up – I’m very excited to attend Darin Barney’s next public event. He’s the bomb.
Preston Manning in conversation with Darin Barney on the politics of science and technology in Canada