Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Last year we saw an almost unprecedented melt of both Arctic sea ice and also in Greenland, and so far this year we are on track for the same once again. In fact it looks like the melt will be even greater this year: It is still only early June and already we have reached the … Read more
[Hat tip to Carlos Pruitt for pointing me at the Guardian article] A rather pervasive myth within our modern culture is the belief that popping Vitamin supplements gives you a distinct health advantage, but this is not true and is instead a modern myth. I’m no exception and in my time I’ve been rather guilty of reaching for … Read more
If you just want the list, its at the end, so feel free to skip directly there. In today’s UK Guardian, David Colquhoun, a pharmacologist at UCL who also blogs about pseudoscience and quackery at dcscience.net, has a fabulous article that discusses all the heath-related scams we are exposed to each and every day. If time permits, I do highly … Read more
Are you curious to know what consciousness is and is not? If so, then this is the talk for you. John Searle, one of the world’s great philosophers of mind and language, has spent fifty years thinking about it. So where is he coming from on all this, what is his stance? He points out that … Read more
The first most obvious question might be who? Well, Eric Weinstein is a Harvard math Ph. D. who has been working as an economist in New York. The news here is that he has been working on some of his own far out of the mainstream ideas about geometry and physics for decades, and … … Read more
I’d love to be able to go totally wireless, but the data speed I get is simply way too slow when compared with a wire to the house … or is it? Apparently some researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics and the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology have achieved a wireless transmission of 40 Gbit/s over … Read more