Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The secret is out. The skeptic astronomer, Phil Plate, had a super secret project that is now in the public domain. He has been working on a fabulous new Discovery channel series, here is a preview. It feels a bit like “Death from the skies” meets “Mythbusters”, lots of practical real science that de-bunks the … Read more
Over at the Atheist Experience blog there has been a fascinating dialog going on. A Catholic has been banging on about how being gay is wicked. Here is a wonderful take-down to the latest note from this ‘believer’, it pulls it all apart and revels her stance to be complete bullshit. I’ve posted it here … Read more
This is amazing … A newfound star has shattered the record as the most massive stellar monster ever seen, astronomers announced today. Weighing in at a whopping 265 times the mass of our sun, the behemoth may have actually slimmed down since birth, when it likely tipped the scales at 320 times the sun’s mass. … Read more
Wow … PZ of Pharyngula over at Science Blogs has gone on strike. There appears to be a lot of discontent with the way the Seed media is running the show. Many Bloggers have left … PZ now on strike … I wonder what comes next? Pharyngula Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a … Read more
At TAM-8 (The Amazing Meeting) in Las Vegas during July 2010, there was a truly amazing opportunity to meet some skeptic heroes. Going from Left to right you can see D.J. Grothe, Ken Frazier, Ray Hyman, James Randi and Paul Kurtz. There were of course many other fabulous folks there who also fall well inside … Read more
This I just must post … its truly outstanding. Crispian Jago has just posted an amazing periodic table of Irrational Nonsense. periodic-table-of-irrational-nonsense