Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
This one blows my mind … you can click on the picture for a high resolution image … This beautiful emission nebula is visible as an extremely faint and large shell around its star. It might give the impression that its a fragile and delicate soap bubble decorating the havens, but in reality it has … Read more
One claim I’ve often come across is that women who adhere to the practise of covering up assert that the Islamic veil is very liberating. Really!! … for who and in what way? OK, lets think about that for a moment and apply a bit of thought to it. What is actually going on here … Read more
This one simply leaves me stunned, shocked, sick and angry at the pointless stupidity … Lust for wealth drove a poverty- stricken couple to sacrifice their own four-year-old daughter at a village in Uttar Pradesh’s backward Sitapur district, about 90 km from here. The couple, identified as Srikrishna and Ramdevi, were told by a “tantrik” … Read more
I’ve just come across a fasinating article by Lord Martin Rees. Just in case you don’t know who he is, here is a link to his Wikipedia page. Our specific interest here is that he is not only an English cosmologist and astrophysicist, but has also been Astronomer Royal since 1995, Master of Trinity College, … Read more
This I just must post … its truly outstanding. Crispian Jago has just posted an amazing periodic table of Irrational Nonsense. periodic-table-of-irrational-nonsense
Once, while standing around the water cooler with several friends, a colleague told us all the following true horror story: The wife of a friend who had been off shopping in Reading was rather astonished to find an elderly lady sitting inside her car when she returned back to it. Being sure that she had … Read more