1. Special Guest: Richard Dawkins

Comment #143229 by Bill Pugsley on March 13, 2008 at 5:20 pm

Thank you for this interview. Dawkins in the morning always makes for a good day. As for Dan Barker's songs, I prefer Monty Python's oeuvre, though they were clever enough. I, too, create songs based in an atheistic and evolutionary thought. I have sampled Hitchens, Dawkins and others, but dare not post them for fear of copyright infringement. Ideas are free and exchangeable, but digital copies of a voice ... I'm not sure. If someone (official) could tell me if I can use sound bites from speeches and interviews I would appreciate it. Other songs can be heard at
http://www.myspace.com/13thpersonality

2. Charles Simonyi Professorship in the Public Understanding of Science

Comment #125580 by Bill Pugsley on February 11, 2008 at 4:16 pm

Charles Simonyi may have been the programmer for the seat, but Professor Dawkins has surely defined it. His expertise, passion, grand writing style and humorous wit are irreplaceable. His dulcet voice is the voice of science and reason in my ear. Professor Dawkins' public also includes the children of the world, whose science education is the most necessary and in need of protection. Yet the Simonyi chair was merely the podium at which to stand and without it, Professor Dawkins would still have found a venue and outlet. These eulogising words are therefore for the general, not the uniform. May he continue his great works beyond the sub-title of the "writer who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford", for he is RICHARD DAWKINS, one of the few true forces of good, of logic and of understanding in this world.

3. Richard Dawkins on The Big Debate

Comment #117783 by Bill Pugsley on January 29, 2008 at 3:46 pm

Try this:

http://www.teachers.tv/video/24057

And also, did anyone see Bush's national address a day or two ago? I turned on C-Span for 2 minutes, long enough to hear him tell America he wants to pour money into faith based schools to "help children that are in failing public schools". Now far be it for to comment on American policy, but wouldn't it be a better idea to fix the problems in public schools? I mean, that's admitting defeat that their government doesn't care about the school system they are in charge of running. Pass off the problem and a bundle of money to faith based schools.