Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The Guardian pulled out an old story from 1974 and popped it up for us all to laugh at today … Incredulity reigned among British archaeologists yesterday after Senator Frank Moss, chairman of the US Senate Space Committee, told a gathering of American mapmakers that a speck on a photograph of Mount Ararat taken from … Read more
Obayashi Corp., headquartered in Tokyo, has unveiled a project to build a space elevator by the year 2050 that would transport passengers to a station 36,000 kilometers above the Earth and transmit power to the ground. Wow, sounds cool … ah but hold on, lets cast a bit of a skeptical eye over this. Who? … Read more
As you might, or might not be aware, but a few leading folks, who just happen to be homophobic bigots because the bible tells them its OK, started a daft petition yesterday … Christian campaigners are petitioning Prime Minister David Cameron to stop the introduction of same-sex marriage. Coalition for Marriage (C4M) said it was … Read more
Chris, a New York-based photographer and filmmaker, has a fantastic idea that I truly love. He is putting together a book of photographic portraits of atheists as a direct challenge to the persistent myth that without some mythological supernatural entity, life is apparently pointless and that our lives are devoid of joy and happiness. Chris explains … I … Read more
Stephen Bayley writes in today’s UK Telegraph an article that is stuffed full of bizarre and strange claims, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen so much daftness packed into so few words. The entire article consists of just two paragraphs, and they pay him to do this? However ever little it was, it was still … Read more
This is hilarious … I just had to post it and share. OK, it has been around for a few years, I first saw this back in 2001, but having tripped over it again, I could not resist posting. Does anybody know where it originally comes from?