Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The Guardian has a fabulous article today …I’ve cut and pasted the start of it here, so that you get the flavor … if it hooks you, I’ve put a link at the end to the entire article so that you can read it all. Beware .. we have a couple of pro-religious kooks here, … Read more
Now this should be a lot of fun … just in case you don’t know, Dembski is a leading proponent of the intelligent design theory of creation … in other words he is a crazy religious kook. Not sure about that? .. OK, lets put it this way … There are no scientific papers in … Read more
Great interview with Christopher Hitchens in Today’s Guardian … here are a couple of extracts from it … In June Christopher Hitchens, the hard-drinking polemicist and atheist, met his toughest opponent yet when he was diagnosed with cancer. The question on many lips was: would his illness alter his beliefs – on Iraq, on Islam, … Read more
Who exactly is T Lobsang Rampa, and what is the real truth behind all the popular books that he churned out to supposedly enlighten many?
Yesterday I blogged about Galaxy Zoo. Thats the project that needs your help to process and categorize images of Galaxies captured by robot telescopes. As I explained, the motivation is that the very best pattern recognition engine known to humanity sits between your ears. However, what is also quite fascinating is that this is just … Read more
Here, are a few quick snippits that I gathered from the Skeptic blogverse today. This is quite random, there are tons of fabulous skeptic blogs out there, so please don’t think of this as a definitive list of the best-of-the-best, because its not. The selection criteria is that its simply stuff that set off my … Read more