Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The first most obvious question might be who? Well, Eric Weinstein is a Harvard math Ph. D. who has been working as an economist in New York. The news here is that he has been working on some of his own far out of the mainstream ideas about geometry and physics for decades, and … … Read more
You will of course be familiar with what happened in Woolwich, so I have no desire to rake over it nor to dwell upon the specifics, instead I’d like to comment on the reaction to it all. It has been incorrectly labelled an act of terrorism, but it was no such thing, instead it was … Read more
You may already have seen this … but what the heck, its funny … The sad fact is that a lot of religious people appear to think that non-believers behave like this … … but the truth is that the non-religious are just ordinary folks, don’t have horns growing out of their heads, and are … Read more
I’d love to be able to go totally wireless, but the data speed I get is simply way too slow when compared with a wire to the house … or is it? Apparently some researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics and the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology have achieved a wireless transmission of 40 Gbit/s over … Read more
HUMANIST CRISIS RESPONSE: Supporting relief efforts after massive tornado in Oklahoma At 3:01 pm CT on May 20, a massive F-4 tornado decimated the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, OK. Scores of severe injuries and deaths have been reported, and intense work is under way to find and rescue those trapped in the rubble. The Humanist … Read more
Read some press stories and you would get the impression that the topic of Climate Change is one that is disputed by a lot of serious scientists who have made an entire career out of studying all the evidence in detail. (Mr Dellingpole, I’m thinking of you). However, what are the numbers, what do we really know regarding the … Read more