Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
If you really are interested in a proper analysis of the recent announcement by NASA, then you should read the blog posting by Rosie Redfield … she quite rightly trashes it all … NASA’s shameful analysis of the alleged bacteria in the Mars meteorite made me very suspicious of their microbiology, an attitude that’s only … Read more
Yesterday Christopher Hitchens wrote about WikiLeaks and all that has happened in Slate … here are a few snippits from it … The WikiLeaks founder is an unscrupulous megalomaniac with a political agenda. … The cunning of Julian Assange’s strategy is that he has made everyone complicit in his own private decision to try to … Read more
The big day is here … at last, the long promised super-fast Google operating system based on its Chrome web browser has been released (or perhaps has simply escaped!!) … Its live and happening right now … Its also anticipated that we will see the launch of a web based marketplace for web-based applications. Its … Read more
I bet they are a very popular church with lots of folks eager to join!!!
Wired magazine reports that a magnetic filament more than 50 times the Earth’s width is erupting off the surface of the sun … here is the NASA time lapsed image of this … Wired then goes on to report … The loop of hot plasma has been snaking around the sun’s southeast limb since Dec. … Read more
When it comes to xkcd, well they are all great, but I especially love this one … Warning: xkcd comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).