Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The UK’s currently famous (or infamous) psychic has been given a challenge … basically “Prove it”. She has recently been in the news, because during a show in Dublin fans say they heard a man’s voice giving what sounded like prompts to her. She replied with a statement, “All my life I have run the … Read more
Talking to the dead is quite real, it happens all the time. However, what is truly tricky is getting them to talk back. It might sound weird, but there are indeed folks out there who have made a full-time career out of talking on behalf of the dead. This presents two options:- Its real, and … Read more
Reuters reports here on a study that has just been published (Oct 24) in the Archives of Internal Medicine. They wanted to see which was best for back pain; yoga or stretching, and did this with a study involving over 200 adults with lower back pain. Chronic lower back pain is a common problem and yet … Read more
When faced with a bereavement that results in deep sorrow and grief, believers deploy thoughts such as “Well at least they are with the Lord now“, and also, “we shall be once again together in the next life“, but how do non-believers cope? To answer this, I do not propose to roll out platitudes or … Read more
Reuters reports (here today) that Two research papers, supposedly published in the journal Nature, have warned that the global temperature rise could exceed “safe” levels of two degrees Celsius in some parts of the world in many of our lifetimes if greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase. It sounds credible, it sounds believable, it also … Read more
The news is out and many are reporting the details. Richard Black writes on the BBC … The Earth’s surface really is getting warmer, a new analysis by a US scientific group set up in the wake of the “Climategate” affair has concluded. The Berkeley Earth Project has used new methods and some new data, … Read more