Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Concerned that developments in human technology may soon pose new, extinction-level risks to our species as a whole, Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, Cambridge University philosopher Huw Price, and Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn have formed The Cambridge Project for Existential Risk … “These dangers have been suggested from progress in AI, from developments in biotechnology and artificial … Read more
The exciting thing about topics such as dark matter and dark energy is that it very strongly highlights how little we really know. We do of course now understand a great deal, but there is still much that is simply not known. Look up and you see the stars, so exactly how many stars are … Read more
Kong Hee, pictured here, is the founder of City Harvest church in Singapore, now one of their largest evangelical mega churches with over 23,000 members. The news is that he has been charged with financial fraud … specifically, funneling millions of dollars to fund his wife’s singing career. The UK’s Guardian reports … City Harvest … Read more
The news is that Lonesome George, the last remaining tortoise of his kind and a conservation icon, died on Sunday of unknown causes, the Galapagos National Park said. He was thought to be about 100 years old. New Scientist reports … The rarest animal in the world is no more. Lonesome George, the last of … Read more
When I first spotted the story, I thought it just had to be a joke … but no, apparently it is quite real. The Catholics have indeed been having a bit of an image problem. Gosh I wonder why, could it possibly be something to so with having priests who think that buggering young kids … Read more
The reality of today’s world is that people come and go all the time, it is no big deal … they join churches, they leave churches. What surprises me regarding some recent news is not that it happened, but rather that it is news at all. An atheist blogger, Leah Libresco, announced on her blog that … Read more