Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Things in Egypt are really not turning out well at all, the revolution may have offered hope, but then a bunch of religious lunatics hijacked it all and proceeded to impose their specific religious ideals by force upon the population. The Military responded and they in turn grabbed power, and so we are once again back … Read more
The Physicist Dr. Christopher Keating has a challenge for you on his blog … I am announcing the start of the $10,000 Global Warming Skeptic Challenge. The rules are easy: 1. I will award $10,000 of my own money to anyone that can prove, via the scientific method, that man-made global climate change is not occurring; … Read more
The re-boot of Cosmos is done and all 13 episodes have been broadcast in the US, so it is wholly appropriate for the LA time to have an article in which Ann Druyan, (Carl Sagan’s wife and co-creator of this new reboot of his immensely popular original series) should look back and ponder over it all. … Read more
First a Bit Of Background – What the heck is the Turing Test? The idea is to test how intelligent a machine is. The basic idea is that if you communicate via a screen, can you tell if you are talking to another human, or to a machine? If you think you are taking to a … Read more
As I’m sure you are aware, Obama announced some rather sensible regulations that mandate that coal-fired power plants in the US need to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions by 30%. In fact Al Gore has chipped in and said the new rules were “the most important step taken to combat the climate crisis in our country’s history”. Sigh! … if … Read more
If you have been watching Cosmos as I have and enjoying it, then you will be delighted to know that the topic next Sunday will be Climate Change. This is perhaps to be anticipated because it has already tackled some of the really big topics such as evolution and industry-funded science denial. Is Climate Change factually scientific and appropriate for Cosmos? … Read more