Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Dr. Marshall Shepherd, a former NASA scientist, has written an interesting article in Forbes in which he highlights three specific Climate specific news articles that broke this week. He notes … I bet there is a good chance that you did not hear about them … and for the average person out there he is … Read more
Back last August Al Gore was interviewed by the BBC during his visit to the UK when he was here to promote his new movie “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power”. For the sake of “balance” the BBC also decided to invite well-known climate denialist Lord Lawson to say a few words afterwards, and that response … Read more
If the current trend of US religious decline continues, and that is a very distinct probability, then you can project ahead and work out how things will potentially change in the next decade or two. This has been done by a Computer Scientist and it has yielded the following insights … By 2020, in just … Read more
Bad ideas inspire bad behaviour, but which ideas are the ones that are the most potent today, and divides us? A group of researchers have conducted some experiments to find out. Initially they ran their experiment in the US, but they then expanded the scope by crossing into other nations such as the UK, Belgium, … Read more
Above are two pictures. One is labelled A and the other is labelled B. Please select the picture that has the largest crowd. Both are of course images of an inauguration crowd, so I think you can see what is actually being asked. People are being confronted with facts and are being asked to pick either … Read more
Normally this is a weekly posting, but I skipped doing it last week because I was at QED. So what happens this week, will I scan over 14 days worth of news, or will I simply stick to looking back over 7 days? I’ll stick to scanning over the past 7 days. If I had … Read more
