Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
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
For some, Wikileaks is evil incarnate, and so they have not held back from openly calling for extreme measures against Julian Assange. Mike Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor, said those who passed the secrets to Assange should be executed. Sarah Palin demanded that Assange himself should be hunted in the same way an al-Qaida operative … Read more
Latest research deflates the idea that the Universe cycles for eternity. Our view of the early Universe may be full of mysterious circles — and even triangles — but that doesn’t mean we’re seeing evidence of events that took place before the Big Bang. So says a trio of papers taking aim at a recent … Read more
Todays Famous quote … Alexander Solzhenitsyn If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a … Read more