Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Not only is today Pi day, but right now the time is Pi. Are you thinking ???. OK … pi = 3.14159…. but you knew that (unlike the folks from Indiana in 1897). Today is 14th March, or to use the US format … 3.14 … and right now (as I publish this, it is … Read more
It was once thought that only humans used tools, but no longer. More and more examples are being discovered in other species. Examples include … chimpanzees in the Fongoli savanna sharpen sticks to use as spears when hunting (2007) – This is considered to be the first evidence of systematic use of weapons in a … Read more
Mike Keas, a Senior Fellow of Discovery Institute writes … Yes OK, pause there because that’s really all you need to know. A “Discovery Institute” creationist writing in a Christian publication is not something I would normally bother with, but it was the “Atheist Professor” bit that caught my eye. OK, first lets take a … Read more
Tim Minchin at his best … enjoy. [No long post today … I’m on the road and off to QED in Manchester] If you liked that, then pop on over to YouTube and key in his name for more of the same. If you want to know more about him … His Wikipedia page is … Read more
Rabbi Alan Lurie writes a daft article in the Huf Post today entitled “Why the Universe Obviously Has a Creator (and Why Some Atheists Refuse to Even Consider It) ” It is the usual stuff, lots of claims but zero evidence. It may indeed give believers a nice warm fuzzy feeling that they are right, but it … Read more
James Delingpole, the Telegraph’s resident Climate Change Denial kook, has used his column today to launch a personal attack upon Sir Paul Nurse (pictured here). One wonders what Sir Paul did to be highlighted like this. Could it be the fact the Sir Paul won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine … nope. … Read more