Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The well-known philosopher and founder of the New Humanities college, A C Grayling has written a letter to all 650 MPs regarding the #BREXIT vote. The letter has been posted on the New College of Humanities website and has the following note added to it … Please note: The following letter expresses the personal views … Read more
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has sent a letter to all members of congress, and that includes the many climate denialists. It has been signed by 31 leading scientific organisations and is as follows … Dear Members of Congress, We, as leaders of major scientific organizations, write to remind you of … Read more
Bates theorem is named after the Rev. Thomas Bayes (1701–1761), who first formulated it. It is essentially a statistical tool that allows you to work out the probability of something. The Cancer Illustration Let’s quickly illustrate how it works. If you wanted to work out the probability that somebody has cancer and you knew how old they were then you could … Read more
The Paris Agreement last May has been hailed a success, and in many respects it was indeed exactly that because it resulted in a completely unprecedented agreement between most of the nations on the planet to take decisive steps to combat climate change. The aim was to hold climate change below 2 degrees Celsius and to … Read more
The UK’s Independent reports the rather startling news that … Scientists warn of ‘global climate emergency’ over jet stream shift Experts say drastic weather changes could cause ‘massive hits to food supply’ and ‘death of winter’ Environmental scientists have declared a “global climate emergency” after the Northern hemisphere jet stream was found to have crossed the equator, bringing … Read more
If you thought that Helium (He) was common, then you would be quite right about that because it is the second most abundant element in the Universe. In fact about 24% of both the Sun and also Jupiter is Helium. However … and this is the real kicker for us … this very abundant and common element is excessively rare … Read more