Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The printing press dramatically transformed our world, and so now the Internet is doing the same right across many industries. Information that was once locked away is starting to flow out to all of us. Today’s example of this is an educational one. MIT-Harvard was once the exclusive preserve of those rich enough to gain entry, … Read more
One Einstein quote that appears to pop up on a regular basis is often rattled off as follows: “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” “So there you go then“, chips in the believer to the non-believer, “One of the smartest men is not as dismissive as you are of the importance … Read more
Least you wonder “Who?”, Stonewall is a UK charity that campaigns for lesbian, gay and bisexual rights, and they have named the Scottish cardinal (pictured here) “bigot of the year” for his vigorous attacks on gay marriage. The Guardian reports … Stonewall said its 10,000 members had voted “decisively” to give the title to O’Brien, head of … Read more
It sounds like a simple question, and you might assume that the answer is either “Yes” of “No”, but the truth is that neither answer is correct. I very much like the way that Tom Chivers has described it in the Telegraph … Imagine you have a big fairground Wheel of Fortune thing, with the … Read more
Its Halloween, so lets take a break and enjoy a scary story. The following is not a professional movie, but is instead a nice little clip make for Halloween by a non-professional (it is the YouTube blogger Cristina Rad). I like it, it is well constructed suspense in a true Hitchcock style … the title tells … Read more
Not too long ago, a Muslim posted the following on FB … “What a load of B*&&*cks”, you might mutter in reply, and rightly so. This complete loon has tripped over a non-believer who suggests that Bestiality is just fine and so he is using a screenshot of it to establish his specific variation as … Read more