Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
This is M87, as witnessed by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and NSF’s Very Large Array (VLA). At a distance of about 50 million light years, M87 is relatively close to Earth and lies at the center of the Virgo cluster, which contains thousands of galaxies. M87 derives its name because it was item 87 on … Read more
OK folks, I’ve thrown in the towel … no more ads … from now on this will be an advertisement free zone … Yea :-) My initial thought was to use ad-sense to help fund this site, but the stuff it throws up warrants pulling the plug. A lot of you will have been seeing … Read more
There is a report on the BBC about child slavery in Senegal. As many as 50,000 boys in the west African state of Senegal are living in slave-like conditions and being forced to beg, according to human rights workers. Human Rights Watch says teachers at many of the country’s private Islamic schools, or Daraas, are … Read more
Great article in the papers again today … no prizes for guessing which one … yes indeed, its the Guardian. It does indeed cause me ponder at times what the heck all the other papers are churning out these days. Anyway, the article is by Polly Toynbee, Columnist of the Year in 2007, also an … Read more
There was an interview with Sinead O’Connor a couple of days ago in the Guardian, its an interesting read. Apparently back some time ago she made a rather public and very startling declaration … In 1992 she tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II on the American TV show Saturday Night live. She … Read more
I have come across this jaw dropping news … a Catholic conference for a bunch of supposedly highly educated folks to babble on about the “evidence” that the earth is the center of the Universe. (Click here to see the details) Galileo Was Wrong is a detailed and comprehensive treatment of the scientific evidence supporting … Read more