Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
If this truly confuses you, well here is Richard Dawkins to clear it all up for you … So what does Richard think might convince a Creationist? He has a few thoughts? Ah but if he has such compelling arguments, then why does he refuse to debate Creationists? He explains … In the end when … Read more
What exactly is the Ig Nobel Award? Basically, the Ig Nobel is a fun parody of the Nobel prize that gets announced in the run-up to that far more serious award, and happens each year. The stated aim of the prizes is to “honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.” However, … Read more
The Mail strikes yet again, and is as usual reliably unreliable. We have had a raft of articles this weekend claiming that the panic is over … Mail: And now it’s global COOLING! Record return of Arctic ice cap as it grows by 60% in a year Telegraph: Global warming? No, actually we’re cooling, claim scientists The … Read more
There is a rather fascinating article in the Guardian that lists 20 big questions in science for which we simply do not have answers at the moment. This is all very interesting because it helps to define the boundary between what we know and where we are going next, in other words, it defines some … Read more
I recently came across a site that contains rather a lot of details about the famous Scopes Monkey Trial that took place in 1925. The site is a legal one and contains all the details of the scopes trail itself and also insights into what happened and why it happened, stuff I quite frankly never … Read more
While on the road in Alaska one little project I tripped over was the creation of a virtual zoo of bones or Virtual Zooarchaeology as they called it. Herb Maschner and a team of researchers are busy creating an online database of bones from every known Arctic bird, mammal and fish. So when something interesting is found, … Read more