Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Since 1991 we have seen the announcement of the IgNobel awards every September. This parody of the far more serious Nobel Prize is where the science community pauses to laugh at itself by granting awards at a formal ceremony held at MIT. Prizes go to the weirdest bits of real published research. This is not … Read more
From 12-14 September the Global Climate Action summit took place in San Francisco. This was a time for focus and a place for deeper worldwide commitments and accelerated action on what is the most important challenge our species has ever faced. Hosted by Gov Jerry Brown it has indeed lived up to the vision that initiated … Read more
The Myers-Briggs personality test is very popular. What is the science behind this, is it actually credible or simply pseudoscientific?
In the not too recent past the BBC has managed to make a complete hash of their climate change reporting. Last August 2017 Al Gore was in the UK promoting the sequel to “An Inconvenient Truth”. The BBC quite rightly interviewed him on the BBC’s Radio 4 flagship program “Today”, a slot that literally millions tune into … Read more
When faced with many of the items of weird religious news, the most immediate and obvious is to go for the idea that this is stupidity incarnate. When it comes to Trump himself most of those who engage directly with him more or less confirm that he is indeed quite stupid, but that’s not the … Read more
The UK’s National Center for Social Research have just issued a press release with the latest numbers on 7th September. These numbers reflect data gathered in 2017. As data is processed they tend to dribble out insights and so this latest press release is part of that process. What are the latest highlights? Well yes, I … Read more