Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The TL:DR; answer is that yes, it is indeed still ongoing and it is still being covered up. The prevailing myth is that it is all in the past and with a new Pope in charge and a new set of rules in place, it is history, a rather dark abhorrent one, but still history. Alas no, … Read more
I once worked in a situation where various companies provided services to a large corporate client that I worked with, and one of those service providing companies was in the habit of issuing a weekly email that highlighted all the wonderful things they had done the previous week Being a curious person, I checked and discovered that … Read more
Somebody posted a claim into a FB group from a highly dubious source, with what appears to be an extremely absurd claim that … REFUGEES SAY GERMANY MUST BAN ALL ALCOHOL OR SEX ATTACKS WILL CONTINUE Sorry about the caps-lock, but that is theirs, not mine. I initially posted a comment pointing out that the … Read more
The Independent has a moving tribute to Leila Alaoui, the talented young photographer, who was shot dead by four heavily-armed thugs in an al-Qaeda attack on a popular café in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso … Scores of women were among the crowd saying goodbye to an artist and human rights campaigner whose death has sent shockwaves … Read more
OK, so let’s forget all the serious stuff and have a bit of fun instead today. Years ago I well remember that if you entered exactly the correct keystrokes into Excel97 (yes that long ago), then it would start up a flight simulator that the authors had buried in the code, ah but alas it … Read more
You might indeed be tempted to initially think it to be a comedy sketch, but apparently there are words so terrifying that the Iranian minister of culture has decided to ban them, for example the word “wine”, or at least that is what the Telegraph claims … Iran’s culture ministry has decided to censor the use of the … Read more