We are often told that the brain is the most complicated organ in the human body, that its functions and activities are shrouded in mystery. This is certainly true. We really don’t know about a lot of the things the brain does or how it does them. There has been and continues to be, extensive […]
Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
Cross-posted from my blog, Moth Eyes
One of the most hyped emails from the Climategate hack was this one, sent by Phil Jones:
I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.
“Proxy records” for temperatures provide […]
This might be pretty controversial, but I’m going to go ahead and say it anyway.
I don’t have any problem with people who call themselves “climate change skeptics” — if they really are good skeptics. In fact, based on what I consider a reasonable definition of the term “climate change skeptic”, I’m a climate change skeptic. More on this later.
But, […]
When debating claims of astrology, extra-sensory perception, medicine, ghosts, intelligent design, and religion, it is often argued that they are beyond science, that science doesn’t have the tools to study them. These arguments stem from a lack of understanding of how science operates.
Science is the gathering of observable, empirical and measurable evidence which is then used […]
It’s been some time I’ve penned some ramblings for YAS (“fingered” is a more accurate word, but conjures disturbing images…), so it’s good to finally have an hour or two spare for some navel gazing. My only explanation for my prolonged absence is that work has been a harsh task-mistress of late, leaving me at the […]
There are many great webcomics that I regularly read, including Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Hark! A Vagrant and Dinosaur Comics, but one of my absolute favourites is Dresden Codak — a comic about transhumanism and… well, awesome stuff like that.
Updates by the author, Aaron Diaz, are extremely irregular, due to the vast amounts of time required for each […]
I recently mentioned, on my blog, Dr. Granville Sewell, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas, El Paso, in relation to a new book of his, filled with essays about intelligent design and evolution, that was recently published by the Discovery Institute. Sewell is an intelligent design proponent/advocate, and due to his status as […]
I was browsing around newgrounds.com this evening and stumbled across this real gem of a flash app, it’s called “The Scale of the Universe by FotoShop”.
The application breaks the universe down into the smallest possible pieces know to man and then back up to the largest, in a cool flash app. Who could want more?
I’m attending Perth Skeptics in the Park, with about a dozen people sitting around in the shade of a gorgeous Sunday, and I’m telling people about the 10:23 Campaign interview I just did for the Skeptic Zone podcast. If you haven’t checked it out, it features Marsh of the Merseyside Skeptics.
Since I’m keen on Perth Skeptics […]
A phone rang.
Later that night we traveled a decrepit, dark, disheveled road. The air was fresh and had a surprising bite for a summer’s night. I rolled down the window and gazed out into the never ending black and up to the sparkle of a moonless sky. My head lolled out the passenger side window […]
