Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The UK’s Guardian reports that the discovery of primordial gravitational waves by the Bicep telescope at the south pole could potentially give scientists insights into how universe was born. They write … There is intense speculation among cosmologists that a US team is on the verge of confirming they have detected “primordial gravitational waves” – an … Read more
A criticism levelled against Mohammed is that at the age of 50 he married a six year old child named Aisha. First, lets ask ourselves this – Does this actually matter? A rather obvious rebuttal is to ask why this might matter today. Mohammed lived back in the 7th Century, not in our modern age, … Read more
Today I have no specific point, and am instead sharing a few recordings that simply made me laugh, oh and it is also nice to note that Obama himself has a great sense of humour. Now, if you happened to be in his shoes, would you not also be tempted at one point to say … Read more
Dawn, Pakistan’s oldest and most widely read English-language newspaper, brings us the rather astonishing news that the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) concluded its 191th meeting with the ruling that the laws related to minimum age of marriage were un-Islamic and that children of any age could get married. This is manifests itself as far older … Read more
A few Numbers for you … 8.5 Million viewers for the first night Another 40 million people worldwide will watch the premiere this week And (not a surprise) the traffic on Neil deGrasse Tyson‘s wikipedia page has shot up Here also are a couple of reviews that I liked … Your God is too small – on … Read more
Pakistan is generally perceived to be a nation populated with rather a lot of religious lunatics, and I do not mean just your average culturally religious individual, but rather people who embrace the medieval idea that murdering those of a different belief is a really good idea, so much so that they act upon that … Read more