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fake news and facebook — The UK Parliament’s cross-party Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee published its final report on Disinformation and ‘fake news’ on Monday of this week, 18th February 2019. It is Titled: Disinformation and ‘fake news’: Final Report While generic in nature regarding the issue of Fake News, it is rather damming […]

What does the Commons Facebook report tell us?

This entry was posted in fake news media politics and tagged damien collins Facebook fake news report on February 21, 2019 by Dave

Darwin Devolves — Biochemist Michael Behe of Lehigh University has a new book that will shortly emerge titled “Darwin Devolves”. While it will be a huge hit amongst Creationists, the wider scientific community will simply eye-roll and move on beyond this train wreck. It is not out until the end of the month, […]

New Creationist Book: “Darwin Devolves”

This entry was posted in Creationism Critical Thinking religion and tagged Creationism darwin devolves Intelligent Design Michael Behe religion on February 20, 2019 by Dave

methane — The publication of a new study reveals that there has been very strong atmospheric methane growth in the four years 2014‐2017. This has huge implications for the goals of the Paris Climate agreement. The Potency of Methane Methane, CH4, is the forgotten sibling of CO2 , perhaps because it only […]

Dramatic rises in methane over 4 years

This entry was posted in Climate Change news science study on February 19, 2019 by Dave

weird religious news - cartoon by Rob Rogers — That “blessed” blend of right-wing politics and religious belief has given us a truly weird form of entertainment. Each and every week it delivers up a constant stream consisting of the utterly bizarre rantings and ravings of these lunatics. In their eyes, those that advocate compassion for the less fortunate, […]

Weird Religious News – GOP Jesus “Blessed are the Rich and F**k the poor”

This entry was posted in politics religion weird and tagged politics religion weird on February 17, 2019 by Dave

The most probable outcome for the global climate in 2019 is that it will be one of the warmest years ever recorded in human history. That is not a shocking unexpected prediction, but instead comes via looking backwards, observing the ongoing warming trend, and so the probability of this being […]

What will the global climate do in 2019?

This entry was posted in Climate Change science and tagged 2019 climate predictions on February 16, 2019 by Dave

technology — I do wonder if the line that defines a distinct technology gap is marked by those that see kids with phones and respond with a shake of their head as they mumble about it eating their brains, and those that don’t notice because they are busy surfing the web on […]

Is technology use impacting the brains of our kids?

This entry was posted in psychology science study and tagged mental health technology on February 15, 2019 by Dave