Darwin – Big Idea, Big Exhibition
Sunday, January 11th, 2009 Posted in General Science | No Comments »As you will all know, this year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, and the 150th anniversary of the publication of 'On The Origin of Species'. To mark this event, the Natural History Museum has opened ...
Looking Ahead to 2009 – Part 3
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Conspiracy Theories, General, General Science | No Comments »Environmental issues came to the front of everyone's mind in 2008 - right up until the credit crunch began to bite. And it may well turn out that the credit crunch was just the catalyst required to get people really ...
Merry Christmas!
Thursday, December 25th, 2008 Posted in General, General Science | 1 Comment »A very merry Christmas to all my readers. It's important that we remember, on this day, a baby born a very long time ago, in the early hours of the morning of 25th December, to an unmarried mother and absent father, ...
Bad Science
Saturday, October 25th, 2008 Posted in Bad media, General Science, Health | No Comments »If you don't do anything else I ever tell you, then make absolutely sure that you read Ben Goldacre's book "Bad Science". Just to make it easier for you, here's the Amazon.co.uk link. Dr Goldacre is a trained medical doctor, ...
New initiatives from the Brights
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 Posted in General Science, Politics | No Comments »The issue of labelling rational-thinking skeptical atheists as 'Brights' seems to have gained some acceptance recently, though there are still many (including, notably, Christopher Hitchens) who think it's a ridiculous idea. Still, the Brights are a community numbering well into ...
Ancient rocks
Sunday, September 28th, 2008 Posted in Creationism, General Science | No Comments »According to this article on BBC News, scientists have managed to break the record for the oldest rock ever found. The rock, a greenstone, pushes back the date of the oldest rocks known by 250 million years. At 4.28 billion ...
LHC Warm Up
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 Posted in Conspiracy Theories, General Science | No Comments »Tomorrow, Wednesday 10th September 2008, is a momentous day. At some point, if all goes well, scientists will pass a beam of protons for the first time completely round the brand new LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at CERN, near Geneva. ...
