Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
If you have been watching Cosmos as I have and enjoying it, then you will be delighted to know that the topic next Sunday will be Climate Change. This is perhaps to be anticipated because it has already tackled some of the really big topics such as evolution and industry-funded science denial. Is Climate Change factually scientific and appropriate for Cosmos? … Read more
Beliefs that are rather obviously not true at all thrive, and so we should perhaps ponder over the question – why it is like this? The geneticist Steve Jones (pictured above) makes a rather interesting observation regarding beliefs and identifies one good reason. While speaking about this at the Hay Literary Festival, a reporter thought, “Hey … Read more
I love this story – in South Carolina the wooly Mammoth has been adopted as the official state fossil, not because some learned body or institution managed to promote it, but rather because of the efforts of a passionate history-obsessed 8 year old third-grader named Olivia McConnell who won the day despite some very vocal and rather … Read more
A rather common meta-pattern in human thinking rolls like this, “I do not understand X, therefore Y”, for example I have no idea how lightening could happen naturally, therefore Thor I have no idea how the universe could have happened naturally, therefore God … and of immediate specific interest … I have no idea how … Read more
The claim here is that a Norwegian skydiver wearing a helmet camera was almost hit by a Meteor, and that it was caught on his camera as it flew past him. If indeed true, then he clearly had quite a close call and if he had delayed his jump by just a few seconds then … Read more
Turkey is back on the map once again. Officials there have now announced that the country has lifted the ban on Twitter on Thursday – see news reports – and yes, their Government does confirm that they have lifted the ban a day after the country’s highest court ruled that the Twitter ban was illegal, ordering the government to unblock … Read more