13th International Migratory Bird Day at Toronto Zoo
Bart B. Van Bockstaele-Toronto: Toronto Zoo held its 13th International Migratory Bird Day last Saturday, 12 May 2012. As has become something of a tradition, I joined the party by tagging along on the birding walk in the closed-off sections of the zoo. The walk started at 8 am, and I boarded the first Red [...]
Toronto is a cosmopolitan city where people from numberless countries and cultures and persuasions live peacefully together. This successful multiculturalism is one of its main attractions for tourists, as made abundantly clear in tourist brochures and coffee table publications. Far and between, however, are tourists that come here to marvel at the city’s natural heritage. [...]
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Although Canada has a rich history, people do not usually come here to admire its historic cities, as they often do in other parts of the world, from Great Britain over Iraq to Japan. Instead, Canada is known all over the world for its large expanses and breathtakingly beautiful nature. That should not come as [...]
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Richard Dawkins Evolutionary biologist and zoologist Richard Dawkins is renowned as one of the world’s leading public atheists. Religionists often call him arrogant, shrill, intolerant and aggressive in his defense of atheism. Many religionists claim that Richard Dawkins’ atheism is nothing but another form of religion, that he is an ignorant clown who doesn’t know [...]
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William Lane Craig [04] In case you are not familiar with him, William Lane Craig [01] is an individual who works as a Jesus shill for Biola University [02], an institution of questionable academic integrity that requires all its staff to accept an intellectually untenable doctrinal statement [03]. This is a text, full of unproven [...]
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In the previous article, I presented the Monty Hall Problem, a famous problem in elementary probability, based on “Let’s make a deal”, a television game show of years gone by. If you haven’t read that article, what follows is likely to make little sense. It would therefore probably be better to read that article before continuing [...]
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Bart B. Van Bockstaele-Toronto: How often have you heard this: “It’s just common sense”? Probably far more often than you care to remember. Common sense is often seen as a sort of innate intuition that leads us to the correct conclusions only a moron would deny. However, as I will show in this and the [...]
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Bart B. Van Bockstaele-Toronto: First, let’s be clear: I am not all that fond of Bill Maher [01]. Anybody who suggests that headaches are not caused by Aspirin deficiency [02] and that Aspirin should therefore not be taken when one has a headache, is a bit of a loon and a crank, and almost certainly [...]
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Sacrifice of Isaac (1635) Most Americans claim they are, but are they? There are numberless Christian sects in the US, and all over the world for that matter. They all differ in what they consider Christian and what not except for one major point: they almost all agree that they are right, and that all [...]
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David Suzuki in 2009 I just finished watching the documentary MS Wars: Hope, Science and the Internet, presented by the indomitable David Suzuki in the CBC’s “The Nature of Things” series. I loved this documentary. The issues involved are intense, painful and devastating for patients, and fascinating for science. All the issues were presented in [...]
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