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Each September the #IgNobel awards, a parody of the Nobel Prize, gives out awards to the weirdest bit of real research that has taken place in the past year. While the award itself is satirical social criticism and not a real award, the research it highlights is quite real. It’s […]

Solid and liquid cats wins 2017 #IgNobel award

This entry was posted in Humor news People science society and tagged IgNobel on September 19, 2017 by Dave

Last February Mail journalist David Rose penned one of his Climate change denial articles for the Mail on Sunday and the Daily Mail. I blogged about it at the time and explained exactly why it was nonsense. The claims presented within his article entitled “Exposed: How world leaders were duped […]

Press Standards upholds complaint against Mail #Climate denial article

This entry was posted in Climate Change media news science and tagged climate david rose IPSO Mail on Sunday Retraction on September 18, 2017 by Dave

I’m quite happy for people to believe whatever they wish to believe, and to practise that. If however such beliefs are promoted into the public square, and I am faced with demands that I should conform to these beliefs, then the gloves are off and I will happily mock the […]

Weekly Weird Religious News – 17th Sep 2017

This entry was posted in religion weird and tagged David Benham Gonzales Jason Benham Lance Wallnau Weather on September 17, 2017 by Dave

vaccines — As a rather blatant slap in the face for the anti-vaccine movement there is a new study that illustrates the profoundly positive and deep impact that vaccines have, and will continue to have. Vaccines save 20 million lives, $350 billion in poor countries since 2001 It is the one medical […]

The Impact of vaccines is profound – they really do work

This entry was posted in Medicine science society and tagged benefits vaccines on September 16, 2017 by Dave

ice cave — The Antarctic is of course glaciated and very very cold, that is well understood. What is new is the realisation that it is not all a barren lifeless landscape, but instead contains niches where life has potentially gained a foothold in a rather surprising way. Hidden under the ice are Geothermal […]

Life In Warm Steamy Ice Caves Beneath Antarctica’s Glaciers

This entry was posted in Antarctic environment Natural History science and tagged #antarctic ice caves Life on September 15, 2017 by Dave

Monkey Selfie — Back in 2011 photographer David Slater was in the Indonesian jungle and had setup his camera. A rather playful troop of crested macaque monkeys that he had befriended starting larking about with his camera, and soon one ended up taking the above monkey selfie. Now here is the key question. Who owns the […]

Monkey Selfie legal case settled – The Monkey gets 25%

This entry was posted in Entertainment law and tagged animals copyright david slater law monkey selfie rights on September 14, 2017 by Dave

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