The football season is upon us

American Football is a strange sport. They finish at around January, drag it out for a little while with a few more games, and then end everything until September. Some would call it lazy, especially when compared to the season of proper football.

Never the less, it is that time of year again and this year sees the launch of a new football blog from the UK perspective entitled A Brit Talks Football.

It will be covering thoughts on how it fairs to be a UK fan as well as a review of some of the games and other interesting news and articles.

Gone, but not forgotten

Last year, Humanist Society of West Yorkshire member and Humanist representative on Leeds SACRE Gerry Hannant sadly passed away.

However, while he may be gone, he certainly is not forgotten, thanks to Worfolk Lectures, an online archive of atheist lectures, that recovered the only known recording of his talk "Scientific Standards: Does Religion Measure Up?" and published it on their website. The talk was given during Rationalist Week 2007, the first ever awareness week run by Leeds Atheist Society. Since then the awareness week has grown into a veritable festival of reason and many other talks from their archives are taken from such weeks too.