Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
August will be a rather sparse month for posts because I’m currently on a very long road trip and am heading North to Alaska … yes really. having climbed Ranier with my son and daughter. we are now all driving into the wilderness … (If curious, the following pictures are mine, I took them all … Read more
The title is literal and not simply a metaphor, I’m off today to start a climb of Mt Ranier, so no postings for a few days. Yes, we are going for the top 14,400ft … so it is ropes, ice axes, and crampons as we traverse glaciers and potentially risk Oxygen starvation due to the … Read more
Apparently the Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) biology textbooks had once taught that the existence of the Loch Ness monster disproved Darwin’s theory of evolution. OK, you can stop laughing now … this was no joke, they have actually been teaching kids that the proof that evolution was wrong was a completely fictitious myth. Really? Sadly yes … … Read more
Bangladesh blogger Asif Mohiuddin was brutally stabbed by the Islamists, and then arrested for the crime of being an atheist. He was let out on bail on 27th June and had applied for permanent bail, but the Dhaka Tribune now reports … A Dhaka court on Monday afternoon sent blogger Asif Mohiuddin to jail, rejecting his plea … Read more
Irish politics can be quite frankly insane at times, for example it is the only nation on the planet that has managed to pack a war of independence and a civil war into a six month period. Ah but there is an even better example, they have a blasphemy law that was introduced not too … Read more
Nature reports a rather scary story. It is an item of news that many have known was coming … bacteria have now become resistant to the powerful carbapenem antibiotics — one of the last drugs left on the shelf. The article starts with a rather stark warning … …it was worrying to hear Thomas Frieden and … Read more