Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
When in need of some help you reach out and ask the Internet, and why not, what could possibly go wrong? The UK’s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) have a new £200 Million vessel that they plan to use for polar research, and so they decided to get a bit of public interest rolling by asking … Read more
So today’s weird news is the story of a Texas resident (well where else would you find this) who has made the news because he has discovered “proof” that Noah’s Biblical flood really happened. RawStory reports … A Texas man who discovered what he believes to be prehistoric fossils in his aunt’s front yard has received … Read more
The following clip has caused a bit of a stir on the Internet. It shows a chap being interviewed, and as you watch, the lady on the left just vanishes. What happened, was it aliens, the rapture, or something else? If it was the rapture then I guess that makes her the only true believer. First, … Read more
Whispers abound about the discovery of something new and quite unexpected at the Large Hadron Collider. The previous confirmation of the Higgs boson was truly amazing but they were looking for that and expected to find and confirm it. The recent discovery (not by the LHC) of gravitational waves was also a huge scientific landmark, but … Read more
The topic of Einsteins religious views is one that quite frequently pops up and it was only a few days ago that I was writing a rebuttal to somebody who was asserting that claim. Well, it has all popped up again, and so I do wonder if we can label this as classic-weird. So this latest … Read more
Smithsonian.com has a nice article all about the largest structure in the Universe that has been recently observed… or to be a tad more precise, the largest that we have observed so far. The background context here is that the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey has been mapping the galaxies and quasars in the early universe and they have now … Read more
