Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
There is a really interesting story in today’s Independent that caught my eye … A mysterious rock which appeared in front of the Opportunity rover is “like nothing we’ve ever seen before”, according to Mars exploration scientists at Nasa. Experts said they were “completely confused” by both the origins and makeup of the object, which … Read more
Here is a picture that recently went viral on both Facebook and also twitter … It paints an utterly tragic picture and so it touches the heart. Upon finding it many then tag and forward it … the result – it goes viral. One slight flaw – it is fake and not at all what … Read more
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Below is 10 year old Nujood Ali from Yemen, full of joy and life. The picture above was taken by Stephanie Sinclair in Yemen, 2010 and shows her on the day that she learned that she was being granted a divorce from her much older abuse husband. Very courageously, she fled him and took a taxi by herself to the … Read more
It is often fun to dip in and see what this week’s daftest Islamic Fatwa is. You can always be sure that whenever you find a truly odd one and think “Nothing could possibly be weirder than this” then inevitably some cleric will pop up the very next week and prove you quite wrong about … Read more
If you have no interest in tapping directly into the very latest thinking from some of the leading intellectuals and thinkers on the planet today without any intervention from middlemen such as journalists and journal editors, then you better stop reading right now and move quickly on, because I’m about to introduce you to Edge.org. What … Read more