Thore Husfeldt’s Reviews > Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science > Status Update

Dawkins reminisces about New Year at 1 Jan 1980, scolding himself for misremembering the date: It was actually 1 Jan 1981: “So detailed and full were my recollections of ‘seeing the new decade in,’ it took multiple documentary evidence […] to finally convince me […] that my memory was faulty.” [p.45]

I can solve that for you. The decade did begin 1981, which he knew back then, but terminology has changed since.

As an Oxford Don in the early 70s: “I also gave an annual service course for zoology students on computer programming. Incidentally, this showed up an astonishing variance in student ability – a far wider gap between the strongest and the weakest than I ever noticed in the rest of their course.” (p. 11)