Thanks in part (1/2 exactly) to Richard Dawkins, justgiving.com have reached their goal of £11,000 with half that from Dawkins himself.

The aim of their campaign is to put advertisements on buses in the UK with the following message:

After hitting the front pages of various sites and their goal, donations have doubled in a single day to more than £ 25,000.00 as of this writing.

Well, part way through writing a paper about statistical methods used to compare universities across Canada (the Macleans rankings), I've just about made it through discussing how Enlightenment skepticism a la René Descartes undermines the authoritativeness of such statistics no matter how accurate they become. Specifically, because the entire methodology is predicated on falsifiability and the reduction of doubt, and that we consumers of the rankings information did not collect or analyze the data ourselves.