Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Heh, this was a really enjoyable read – it’s all kind of… footnoted! In the form of ‘President-Elect Barack Obama’s first science briefing’! Check it out yourself over at A Candid World – Tangled Bank #118. My fave pics for this edition include: GrrlScientist of Scientist Interrupted with a post on teeny-tiny geckos Discovering Biology [...]
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Sorry, I’m very much biased in this case – it’s a LolCat edition of the Tangled Bank! And you already know how much I love a LolCat in a blog carnival… Some great features include: Pamela Ronald printed in The Boston Globe: The new organic and how the future of food may depend on an [...]
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What are you doing reading this entry? Seriously, click on over! The event you’ve all been waiting for has happened! Robert ‘Stop Sylvia Browne’ Lancaster has gone to Sylvia’s show when visiting Las Vegas! Here is the big picture: 1. We saw the show. 2. I spoke with Browne. 3. I was escorted off the [...]
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Right – four things: FIRST – go over to Dr Karen Stollznow’s blogsite. NOW. Read this entry: For almost twenty years, the eminent Barry Williams has been Executive Officer of the Australian Skeptics Inc., and Editor of the Skeptic magazine. This year, Barry will be retiring from these roles…. SECOND – Scientiae is calling for [...]
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The NY Times has turned me poetic… an article about a man who publishes ‘niche-texts’, with the help of computers, Phillip M Parker: …Mr. Parker has generated more than 200,000 books, as an advanced search on Amazon.com under his publishing company shows, making him, in his own words, “the most published author in the history [...]
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Richard Saunders, on his many jaunts around Sydney, sends me this news broadcast: “This one is God’s” — yes, that’s what it says about that planet, thanks to the billboard outside All Saints church in Petersham. Huh. Just when the BBC reports that Astronomers have discovered what could be ‘the youngest planet’: An embryonic planet [...]
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Arthur C. Clarke, 90, Science Fiction Writer, Dies “Mr. Clarke was well aware of the importance of his role as science spokesman to the general population: “Most technological achievements were preceded by people writing and imagining them,” he noted. “I’m sure we would not have had men on the Moon,” he added, if it had [...]
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