On Being a Victim

You are a victim. And that’s okay.

A rant about what I think International Women’s Day is for.

Me on Coelho on Inner Beauty

Go hunt, he said. Bring ‘em down! Although not in so many words. “What do you think?”, was his actual question. My answer? “I want to tear it apart, sentence by sentence.”

And so I will.

On Trees and Footballs

Imagine I told you I don’t know what a hockey stick is, or couldn’t tell basketball from football. That is to sports as not knowing what a protein is, or not knowing a quark from a quasar, is to science.

Why I’m Not Agnostic

I’m an atheist. I’m not an agnostic. I’m about to explain why.

Why I’m an Atheist

As a child, I didn’t spend much time thinking about god, but I was intensely curious about the world – especially the living world.