Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Within his latest Slate article (Dec 13), Hitchens is gunning for Nixon and Kissinger … Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized, and excluded …his role as the only unindicted conspirator in the Nixon/Watergate gang, and since the exposure of his war crimes … Read more
I just came across an old article in the May edition of Scientific American by Steve Mirsky. Apparently Harris Interactive conducted an on-line survey in March regarding what folks in the US thought of President Obama, and (as you might expect) the results proved to be rather startling … for example, Steve reports … 40 … Read more
Jack of Kent, the famous legal blogger, had a brief (informal) telephone interview with his friend and fellow libel reform campaigner Mark Stephens as he was in a cab going to Wandsworth Prison to see his client Julian Assange, then blogged about it all. It makes fasinating reading … here are some extracts … Mark … Read more
The Geminids are a meteor shower caused by the object 3200 Phaethon, which is thought to be a Palladian asteroid. This would make the Geminids the only meteor shower not originating from a passing comet. If you would like to see them, well tonight is the night … they have been building up to their … Read more
Hitchens alert folks … there is an article in Vanity Fair by Christopher Hitchens … and this time its all about the Tea Party he has a few words to say … In it, he (quite rightly) goes after Glenn Beck, that racist nut, and all those who go along with all the nonsense he … Read more
The Boston Review has an article entitled “More Crank Science” and is by Jerry A. Coyne, a professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Ecology and Evolution … its well worth reading … I highly recommend it … here is an extract … following by a link to the full article … … Read more