Alien life should we find it, and possibly intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe, may not look anything like us. It might be as odd to us as the octopus. Continue Reading →
The Vatican. A thoughtful article by an young Ex-Catholic who still cant completely let go is linked here, entitled “Catholic Church: It’s Not Me, It’s You”. Typical of the young Continue Reading →
Mick Jagger. Like Mick and the Stones, “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction.” Not really, but I can’t seem to get any comments on my posts here. This blog has had Continue Reading →
Brian Cox, Particle Physicist. Lawrence Krauss, Cosmologist. Nowadays we are blessed (pun intended) with a whole stable full of excellent, very active, very visible science educators. Two physicists are featured Continue Reading →
Not sure where this is going. These posts, nearly 250 of them now in 16 months mostly start off with a new item of religious absurdity or repression, or alternatively Continue Reading →
Check this article out: Vatican Hits Sour Note on Women. Oops. I just love listening to folks gush over the new Pope’s “progressive” intimations that maybe gays and atheists don’t Continue Reading →
. “Was Obama Right…?”. One of the few reasoned analyses of the Obama National Prayer Breakfast “Religions make all people do bad things” flap is linked above from the Washington Continue Reading →
This is great. Obama reminds his fellow Xians that even their “religion of love” can be the reason people behave as badly as our Muslim friends at ISIS, beheading and Continue Reading →
Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Check out this short but insightful and compelling video by the incomparable Neil DeGrasse Tyson (NDT) “What’s Possible in 15 Years”. Neil is responding to a challenge Continue Reading →
Islamic countries. To someone living in an industrialized democracy be it in the East or West, life in a Muslim majority country would appear archaic and stifling from both a Continue Reading →
