Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
We do not just impart information, but often construct a narrative and tell stories to each other – now here is something odd / amusing / strange / funny / scary that happened to me / a friend / somebody famous – and often when doing so we are simply repeating something we have heard … Read more
The re-boot of Cosmos is done and all 13 episodes have been broadcast in the US, so it is wholly appropriate for the LA time to have an article in which Ann Druyan, (Carl Sagan’s wife and co-creator of this new reboot of his immensely popular original series) should look back and ponder over it all. … Read more
Archbishop Robert Carlson has been making a few rather weird claims, no not the god turns into a cracker bit, but rather assertions regarding him having a complete lack of any kind of moral compass. The context here is that he has been deposed as part of a lawsuit against the Twin Cities archdiocese and the Diocese … Read more
One kind reader (hat tip to Kathy) pointed out a bit of utterly insane GOP policy that perhaps ticks a few boxes for the religious and leaves the rest of us truly wondering what on earth is going on inside their heads, and so as reported by CNN, the news is that the Texas Republicans have … Read more
First a Bit Of Background – What the heck is the Turing Test? The idea is to test how intelligent a machine is. The basic idea is that if you communicate via a screen, can you tell if you are talking to another human, or to a machine? If you think you are taking to a … Read more
Warning: Bert is really a nice guy and is a tad upset by all these images created by an evil body double. OK, so the story starts off with a chap called Dino Ignacio, an artist and designer, setting up a joke web site in 1996 called “Bert is evil”. It was clearly satire of course because … Read more