Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
This year Pi Day is different. Not only can you use the month and day, but you can also deploy time – the date, (3-14-15) hour, (9 hr) minute (26 min) and second (5 sec) will reflect the first 9 digits of Pi (3.14159265). What the heck is Pi ? Pi (Greek letter “π”) is … Read more
This is truly great news, Saudi Arabia is starting to really feel the heat and Sweden is leading the charge. The UK’s Guardian reports … A clash between Sweden’s progressive foreign policy and the harsh realities of the Middle East has escalated with Saudi Arabia’s withdrawal of its ambassador after Stockholm tore up an arms … Read more
Today it is just a bit of entertainment, and so no serious point is being made at all. There is a rather amusing thread in reddit that asks “What fact did you learn at an embarrassingly late age?“. As you might imagine, a few of the contributions are hilarious, and so here are my favourites … Read more
The degree of the ongoing human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia is frankly astonishing and so quite rightly they have been receiving rather a lot of robust fact based criticism. What has greatly helped to throw the spotlight upon it all has been their absurd and brutal treatment of Raif Badawi (pictured above), a writer and … Read more
So the following quote comes from “The Blaze” and thus needs to be digested with a rather huge lump of salt … Journalist and pastor Lee Strobel — an atheist reporter-turned-Christian writer — is wondering whether a person’s relationship with his or her father could be impacting what individuals believe about the existence of a higher power. Strobel, who commissioned the … Read more
Over in Iceland things are getting interesting, because there the largest atheist group named Vantru (a word that translates as “Disbelief”) have announced on their website the following update … (translated via Google, hence the mangled english) … At the last board meeting, the Board of unbelief decided that as of March 1, they will … Read more