Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
It is literature day for the Nobel Prize … not strictly science, but still perhaps interesting to note who has been spotlighted for crafting and shaping human thoughts, dreams, and aspirations … all carefully massaged to inspire or provoke. To use the words of Nobel himself, a prize for … “the person who shall have produced … Read more
Today we have the announcement of the Chemistry Nobel Prize, and yes I’m more of a physics fan so perhaps yesterday was my own personal highlight. Now, before we get to the details, first a quick side tour. Grrlscientist’s Guardian Column has a nice little article on Nobel Prize Quackpottery within which she highlights some of the … Read more
Yea, its physics day for Nobel Prizes. Humm, do I portray a slight bias there, one that advocates that the only real science is Physics and that the rest is simply stamp collecting? Hat tip to Ernest Rutherford for that observation, and also a tad ironic because he won the Nobel prize in 1908 for Chemistry, … Read more
It is the Nobel Prize season … starting today we get to hear the winners. Each day they announce just one and today it is the prize for Physiology. Then on successive days the announcement agenda runs as follows: Tues 9th : Physics Wed 10th : Chemistry Fri 12th : Peace Mon 15th : Economics If … Read more
One of the many variations of modern creationism (the folks that claim ‘god did it’ is the right answer) is called “Intelligent Design”. There they attempt to refute evolution via the promotion of scientific evidence for an intelligent designer, and also attempt to make it more palatable by omitting all religious terms from what is essentially a religious claim. … Read more
One commonly made observation is that evolution is just a theory and that it is not an established fact. It is indeed true that evolution is a theory, but the use of the word theory within that context is a scientific one, and so it is quite different from the common use of the word. … Read more