Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The BBC reports that a page supporting women’s rights has suddenly received a wave of attention because of an image posted there by one of its followers. The picture was of 21-year-old Dana Bakdounis, without the veil she had grown up wearing – and it polarised opinion. Dana Bakdounis has been brought up in conservative Saudi … Read more
I’ve stumbled across an article in the Telegraph from a couple of weeks ago, it’s an interesting read, here is a quick extract … Enthusiasts admit that a continued failure to provide proof and a decline in the number of “flying saucer” sightings suggests that aliens do not exist after all and could mean the … Read more
Republican candidate Marco Rubio has declared his intent to run for election as US president in 2016. Having learned that touting “stupid” or “religious nut” is not a vote winner from the last election, he will be different, something new and fresh, right? …. actually no, he is more of the same …. sigh! He did … Read more
And so it continues … another generation of people on both sides are committing themselves to their on-going mutual destruction. Tempting as it might be to take sides, or justify the actions of one side by listing the crimes of the other, I won’t. Both have much in common. The stunning silence – The Israelis will point … Read more
I have two Star related items for you today. 100,000 Stars Google has launched a new Chrome Experiment called “100,000 Stars,” which provides a stunning look at the stars that arerelatively close to Earth – you know, just a few light years away. Google explains … Visualizing the exact location of every star in the galaxy is … Read more
Its an exciting find, there is now clear evidence that the common ancestor of both humans and Neanderthals hunted with stone tipped spears … half a million years ago. Let that number sink in. The specific news is that we knew that stone spears were in use 300,000 years ago, but a new study now pushes … Read more