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weird religious news — A scan of this weeks’ weird religious news is stuff that will strike terror deeply into specific groups of people – namely satirists and comedians. The stuff the right-wing religious promote is so utterly absurd that any attempt to parody it is destined to either fail, or instead be embraced […]

Weird Religious News – Beyond Satire and Comedy

This entry was posted in religion weird and tagged religion weird weird religious news on November 18, 2018 by Dave

I briefly caught a BBC interview the other night. It involved an interview with a couple of MPs whose names are not well known, and even if I mentioned them you will forget after about 10 seconds. One was Tory and the other was a LibDem. What quite frankly astonished […]

EU Mythology

This entry was posted in Critical Thinking politics and tagged EU mythology propganda on November 17, 2018 by Dave

maddox — You might perhaps have never heard about the John Maddox Prize, and so you could naturally be inclined to think … “The What?”. This however is special. First, let’s very briefly do a bit of background on it. Sense about science is the British charity that funds and promotes the John Maddox […]

2018 John Maddox Prize – given for taking a bold scientific stance

This entry was posted in Award science and tagged 2018 John Maddox prize on November 16, 2018 by Dave

climate zones — When we think of the term “Global Warming” we often tend to think of it as a measurement of specific things. For example weather extremes such as an increase in the frequency or distribution of storms, or rising temperatures. Familiar as they all are, they are not the only metrics. […]

The Drama of the Changing Global Climate Zones

This entry was posted in Climate Change environment news science and tagged boundary climate climate zones on November 15, 2018 by Dave

EnChroma — Color blindness means that the light-sensitive cells in the retina are not responding appropriately to variations in wavelengths of light that enable people to see an array of colors. The picture above gives you an idea of what that might be like. It can manifest to varying degrees and so […]

Do EnChroma glasses for colour blind people work?

This entry was posted in science Skeptic news Skepticism technology and tagged color blind colour blind EnChroma protan on November 14, 2018 by Dave

effective communication — There are people who post rhetoric that is by design not simply false, but also crafted to provoke an emotional response. Often the best reply is none at all, and yet at times I fail and do not resist the temptation. One chap recently posted something that “inspired” me to […]

Effective Communication: Tackling Climate Mythology

This entry was posted in Climate Change science and tagged Al Gore climate communication effective communication on November 13, 2018 by Dave