Do EnChroma glasses for colour blind people work?

EnChroma

Color blindness means that the light-sensitive cells in the retina are not responding appropriately to variations in wavelengths of light that enable people to see an array of colors. The picture above gives you an idea of what that might be like. It can manifest to varying degrees and so it can be modest or … Read more

Effective Communication: Tackling Climate Mythology

effective communication

There are people who post rhetoric that is by design not simply false, but also crafted to provoke an emotional response. Often the best reply is none at all, and yet at times I fail and do not resist the temptation. One chap recently posted something that “inspired” me to respond with a rebuttal. His … Read more

Weird Religious News – Migrants and the Midterms

weird religious news highlights that migrants really don't matter after the election

This week’s selection of weird religious news was of course sourced from election week. I’ve split it into both pre and then post election items. Why? Well basically because the things that were frantically important prior to the election, such as migrants, suddenly ceased in importance once the election was done. Funny that. Side Note: … Read more

Palaeolithic cave art in Borneo

cave art

“The world’s oldest example of cave art” exclaims some of the headlines and associated media clips. So what is this about? Since the 1990s, caves in the remote and rugged mountains of East Kalimantan, an Indonesian province of Borneo, have been known to contain prehistoric paintings, drawings, and other imagery, including thousands of depictions of … Read more

Is the Interstellar Object Oumuamua an alien spacecraft?

The bait was offered and various sections of the media rapidly pounced on Oumuamua and devoured it with relish. We are awash with stories such as this … Express: Mysterious interstellar object Oumuamua ‘SENT BY ALIENS’ to survey galaxy – Harvard .. and also the slightly more factually correct variations … Sky News: Cigar-shaped object could be alien spacecraft, … Read more