Simonyi Professorship

This is truely a great year the stars are shifting and the constellations that have made up the abysmal last decade or dissipating. Along with the election of Obama which ends one of the Human races most depressing periods when so much potential was decimated and turned to so much futile ignorance, Richard Dawkins retires from the Simonyi chair at Oxford. I remember lamenting the day that chair was created and he instated, I can't believe it was 13 years ago!!! In my opinion he was not the guy to give it to, and he has wasted it. Negative arguments about God are neither the place of scientists, nor a constrructive use of either religion or science - they just dissipate energy pointlessly. Our new man Marcus du Sautoy is a much more practical and positive man and seems set to reinvigorate the public enthusiasms with actual science! I hope the same can be said for Obama and America. Really it is so depressing that there is so much power in the world and literally no-one who can utilise it... and worse as I've noted such an ocean of sheeps who will do the bidding of any idiot (most extraordinarily Zimbabwe). It really takes a brave man to stand his ground it seems and there are few brave men.