- Richard Dawkins on the ancestral language of DNA;
- How humans have interpreted fossils throughout history;
- Recalling the scientifically inaccurate and intellectually hostile movie Armageddon, from 1998;
- How an article about a refinement to our understanding of human evolution overstates its case;
- And as a lagniappe, Natalie Merchant, who has a new album out; and recalling “San Andreas Fault.”
Richard Dawkins, too, has a blog on Substack, which has become a refuge for those writers unable to find a home on traditional sites, or perhaps because they can make direct money through Substack subscriptions. You don’t have to subscribe to see most of the posts, but apparently you get extra things if you subscribe. (I haven’t subscribed to any yet; I don’t mind doing so, but I suspect the costs would quickly add up.)
Currently I’m already following the religious skeptic Hemant Mehta (https://friendlyatheist.substack.com/), who went there after Patheos.com disbanded its “nonreligious” blogs (apparently because the religious were offended by their existence); the historian Heather Cox Richardson (https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/), and the economist Robert Reich (https://robertreich.substack.com/) there, and perhaps others. I need to reorganize my bookmarks.
Dawkins’ Substack is called “The Poetry of Reality”.
Richard Dawkins, Substack, 30 Jun 2023: Two Ancestral Languages
