Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Early versions of AI are here and these instances are becoming very widely available. Familiar examples include ChatGPT and Copilot. Ah but wait, those are all just one specific category of AI. As I’m sure you appreciate, the scope for using it is actually vast and includes a great deal more… Literally anything involving vast … Read more
So what has the newly installed Secretary of Health and Human Services been up to? If only the answer to that was dull and boring, but alas as a renowned anti-vaccine and whacky conspiracy theorist, that is unfortunately not the case. “wild whacky stuff” is really not what anybody ever wants to hear from the … Read more
Yes that headline is real, but before we get into it, I first have a few thoughts. In normal times you might occasionally come across something that motivates you to go WTF! or similar. These days are not normal times, and so such encounters are sadly becoming not just daily but almost hourly now. I … Read more
Where I’m going to go here is to talk about a new psychological study that reveals something truly fascinating. However, before we get into it, let’s first start with something rather important. You can be fooled, I can be fooled, we can all be conned and manipulated. Why? Basically because we humans are awash with … Read more
For the short answer, the TL;DR; version, the answer is potentially yes, but don’t panic … yet. COVID is now thankfully under control due to our ability to rapidly create and distribute vaccines that worked very well. It caught many by surprise because it rapidly emerged and spread, and so people are now appropriately conscious … Read more
We will shortly dig into the details of a recently published paper that reveals something deeply dire about climate change that had not been previously known, nor had it been predicted by the climate models, and yet it is now beginning to manifest. Dire as it is, there may actually be a bit of a … Read more