Articles tagged with "title"

The Auckland Deep Thinkers is a group on the MeetUp website that meet both in-person and online. The group's description states:

Back in the distant past of … *checks calendar*… March 2022, I first wrote of a long running scheme of Scottish souvenir plots. In brief, you pay a bit of cash for a square-foot of land, and in return you get a certificate declaring you a laird or lady and the dubious privilege of buying branded kitsch. You can read more about the loopholes that companies that sell souvenir plots exploit in that original newsletter.

No true Scotsman…buys souvenir plots

The above title is my paraphrasing of a recent paper published in an Elsevier-owned scientific journal, Science of The Total Environment. The paper's actual title is:

We Dawkins fans have been waiting since "Unweaving the Rainbow" in 1998 for this. Unlike its predecessors, it is not written around a single theme, but is a collection of Dawkins's comments and reviews of the past 25 years, on a variety of topics, reflecting his wide-ranging interests and passions. His editor, Latha Menon, has arranged 32 of these into six groups and a final letter to his ten-year-old daughter on "Belief". In addition to a general Preface, Dawkins has written a short introduction to each group.

Aristotle's Books in Auckland has started a skeptics section of titles. Books debunking the New Age and religion in general are found there.

A quick perusal of the shelves of your local library can show you where the purchasing priorities lie — and they're not in the science section.