Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
NOTE: An updated and rewritten version of this posting can be found here on Medium. Just how high does the temperature need to get before it becomes too hot for human life to be maintained? It’s actually quite a complicated question to answer and yet there is an answer – 35C – beyond that you … Read more
Once again my weekly posting of weird religious news from the past seven days is here. Will there ever be a week when all of the religiously motivated behave with decency, honesty, integrity and tolerance? Now don’t misunderstand me, I’m not suggesting that all religious people don’t, because in reality most do. In fact I … Read more
Researchers at Yale university asked themselves a question about cures for cancer … “Do people who opt for Alternative Treatments for cancer have a better outcome and survive longer?” If indeed people are better off with an alternative treatment, then that’s a rather important discovery. After studying this they have written up the results and … Read more
Weather and climate are not the same thing. We can and do have weather events that that are extreme. Often such events are attributed to climate, but the subject matter experts generally tend to pause and not make that leap.What about the current heatwave, is that an extreme weather event, or can we attribute an … Read more
Despite a change in leadership at the top of the EPA the fight to rollback Californian auto emissions is still game-on. Bloomberg reports on 23rd July … Trump to Seek Repeal of California’s Smog-Fighting Power … As part of the effort, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will propose revoking the Clean Air Act waiver granted … Read more
Are you taking Omega-3 supplements, or in fact any supplement? If so, then it is often well worth pausing and asking yourself why you are doing so. Questions to ponder over include … Does this really help to keep me healthy? What leads me to think that it is beneficial? If you are self-medicating, have … Read more