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IAN MCEWAN, the award-winning British novelist, is the author of The Child in Time (winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award, 1987), Amsterdam (winner of the Booker Prize, 1998), Atonement, Sweet Tooth, and The Children Act. He lives in London. ED. NOTE: Ian McEwan, who is living in France this month, sent the …

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– Richard Dawkins publica “Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science”, el segundo volumen de sus memorias. – Reseña del libro y entrevista con el autor. Por Luis Martín “Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science” (Bantam Press, 2015), el último libro del eminente etólogo, zoólogo y biólogo evolucionista Richard Dawkins, …

This week our question comes from Mike Lilian of Kakanui, New Zealand. Mike asks “What part does addiction play in the human impulse to religion?” Our favorite answer will win a copy of “An Appetite for Wonder” by Richard Dawkins.

Interview with Richard Dawkins in the Boogaloo, London.

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/229748703″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] Devon interviews evolutionary biologist and best selling author Richard Dawkins about his latest book, Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science. Interview date: October 23, 2015

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By Ðavid Osorio

Filmed on April 17, 2015 in Olomouc, Czech Republic at the Academia Film Olomouc science film festival. From the AFO website: Origins is coming to AFO50! Enjoy one of the best current science dialogues live in Olomouc. For the first time in the Czech Republic (or anywhere in Central Europe) this Origins Project Dialogue will …