Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
You might perhaps have seen the news that a Google Engineer has become convinced that an artificial intelligence that they created has become ‘sentient’ (self-aware). Is this true, has this AI called LaMDA really become self-aware? Short answer – no. Slightly longer answer – Seriously, just no. So what is going on here, what has … Read more
This one is both fun and yet also interesting. The source is a newly published scientific paper, hence the scope here is not simply entertainment but rather it is being used as a tool to explore what is going on inside our brains. First the illusion itself. Look at the image below (You can find … Read more
Far out in the Pacific ocean located on the Hawaiian island of Mauna Loa is the Mauna Loa Observatory. That’s it pictured above. Since 1958 daily measurements of the CO2 within our atmosphere has been carefully collected from there. It was setup and run by scientist Charles Keeling, and has been in continuous daily operation. The … Read more
Health Care does not come for free, it carries with it a considerable cost. Our use of Fossil Fuel is impacting our long term health. As we consume fossil fuel we are also pumping rather a lot of stuff into the air we breath, namely sulphur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides. There is also of course … Read more
Further research into a distinctly unique rock that was found in Egypt back in 1996 has been throwing up a few deep astonishing surprises. The stone itself has been named the Hypatia stone. After some very careful and detailed analysis by researchers at the University of Johannesburg the conclusion is this … This rock does … Read more
Back in 2015, yes it has already been seven years, the famous Paris Agreement was adopted. The goal then was that keep the rise in mean global temperature to well below 2 °C and to limit the increase to 1.5 °C. Here we are now in 2022 and on course to potentially breach that limit. On May 9, … Read more