Update on the Paleo diet

I promised updates on how my two-week dabble with the paleo diet. Then, in the two weeks since I started, I didn't update at all. I've finished it now, so I think this may be the best time to reflect. Also, there is some science near the end, if science is more your style. As…

Dawkins is Wrong: Religion is not a Delusion

The other day I was talking with my flatmate. She was a psychiatrist and the discussion moved to how psychological conditions and symptoms are entirely culturally and contextually dependent. Your behaviour must be inappropriate for your culture for it to be relevant to psychology. But this does not sit well with Dawkins’ definition of a…

A Spiritual Atheist

I meditate. I don’t know why I have taken forever to let you all know that; I think I was waiting until I could be sure certain people had gotten bored with my blog and stopped reading. But I do practice meditation. I’m not trying to contact any higher power or commune with God (although…