I delivered a presentation in the public library on Bainbridge Island, Washington on 18 June 2015. The result is embedded below, with big thanks to Elisabeth Robson, Robyn Wagoner, and Paul Marcotte.

I'm featured in an article based on a presentation in British Columbia. It's littered with incorrect and ignorant statements. Read it here.

I delivered a presentation on the campus of Simon Fraser University on 12 June 2015. The result is embedded below, with big thanks to Brad Hornick, John de Jardin, Robyn Wagoner, and Paul Marcotte.

I was interviewed by the Canadian Broadcasting Company on 12 June 2015. The result is embedded here, with my eight-minute session beginning at the 2:19:55 mark. The recording might be limited to residents of Canada, although I don't know for…

by Alton C. Thompson The quote above is taken, of course, from Voltaire’s Candide ou l’Optismisme [1759].  But it was originally a statement made by philosopher Gottfried Leibniz—the purpose of Candide then being to satirize Leibniz’s philosophy. Now, if that…

I was interviewed in a radio studio 17 April 2015. A 3.5-minute snippet can be found here. Scroll down to the fourth story and click the yellow triangle directly beneath my name.

by WoodWose A tribe once roamed the mountains of modern day Iran (some of them still do) -- they are called the Bakhtiari -- they are shepherding nomads: proud, resourceful, tough as nails. They moved each and every year, as…