Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
That old book of fables, the bible claims, “Bodily exercise profiteth little”, science has now yielded further information that clearly demonstrates this is simply not true at all. A new study shows that one year of moderate physical exercise can increase the size of the brain’s hippocampus in older adults, leading to an improvement in … Read more
The question, “Could the Net become self-aware?” is one that I would normally dismiss quite quickly. If your source for good science is simply ripping off the plot from Terminator, then god help us if you ever moved beyond that and watched the Matrix. The question has indeed come up (well of course it has, … Read more
A copy of BBC Horizon is up on YouTube that you should check out if interested in science. This is the one in which Nobel Prize winner Sir Paul Nurse examines why science appears to be under attack, and why public trust in key scientific theories has been eroded – from the theory that man-made … Read more
I’ve noticed this doing the rounds within the skeptic echo-chamber … and well … its my turn, so here is Ben Goldacre (author of the Bad Science blog and also, least you wonder, for his day job he works full time as a doctor, so he knowns what he is talking about) … enjoy. If … Read more
If you have any interest in being exposed to new ideas and new thinking from the leading thinkers of our age, then you should check out the Edge. First a bit of background. The Edge Foundation, Inc. (www.edge.org) is an organization of science and technology intellectuals created in 1988 as an outgrowth of The Reality … Read more
As no doubt you are aware, there have been various predictions regarding climate change. What is now being observed is that those predictions are wrong … because what we are actually seeing is a far faster rate of change. David Biello wrote about this in Scientific American yesterday … Climate change is happening faster than … Read more