Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The UK’s Guardian reports that the discovery of primordial gravitational waves by the Bicep telescope at the south pole could potentially give scientists insights into how universe was born. They write … There is intense speculation among cosmologists that a US team is on the verge of confirming they have detected “primordial gravitational waves” – an … Read more
A few Numbers for you … 8.5 Million viewers for the first night Another 40 million people worldwide will watch the premiere this week And (not a surprise) the traffic on Neil deGrasse Tyson‘s wikipedia page has shot up Here also are a couple of reviews that I liked … Your God is too small – on … Read more
I blogged about the Sean Carroll vs William Lane Craig Debate a few days ago, and alas that was only impressions from notes. Well, the update is that the full recording is now available, and so here it is below … (or here) .. Oh and before you leap in, you may want to consider the … Read more
The food babe blogger may indeed mean well and have the very best of intents … but alas, has pushed a bit of nonsense to the surface and generated a considerable degree of completely unwarranted scare mongering. She has this nonsense up along with a petition urging people to sign … The every so slight … Read more
Do you remember Cosmos? It was an amazing thirteen-part television series written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (Carl Sagan’s wife) and Steven Soter, with Sagan as presenter and was first broadcast back in 1980. It became the most widely watched series in the history of American public television at that time, and has since then been broadcast in many different countries, so much … Read more
The desire to see the Aurora Borealis is understandable because it is quite a stunning sight to see the sky lit up and so some make special trips to places such as Alaska, Iceland or Norway at the right time, then hope for the right weather and conditions … and even then may be disappointed. … Read more