For the Galaxy Zoo project (which we're involved in at work) there's an 'Object of the Day' - a bit like APOD but just with images from SDSS. I do one every Tuesday, and I try to make it a bit of an informative choice, although sometimes I don't have quite so much time to prepare one. But I was quite pleased with my efforts today, so I thought I ( Read more... )

That Royal Society mess has brought creationism in the UK back in the news, with that article featuring my least favourite feature of the city I live in.

High-placed scientists are now calling for Reiss's to get the sack. I think if you read what he said a bit more carefully and don't jump to conclusions he's not calling for quite what some people ( Read more... )

Creationists claim Mercury observations support 6000 year old universe.

They do this with this plot.


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Prince Charles (claim to fame - accident of birth) -
genetically modified foods are a 'gigantic experiment with nature and the whole of humanity which has gone seriously wrong'.

Norman Borlaug (claim to fame - saving more lives than anyone else in the history of ever) -
'It took some 10,000 years to expand food production to the current level of ( Read more... )

One of the newsletters I get regularly has little counter-intuitive logic problems:

First one I give just out of interest:
Poll Coin tossing

Second one has a more interesting twist I thought of:
Poll False sentencesNow, the meta-twist to this one that occurred to me is that none of them have any mistakes - as they're written exactly as intended in order for the puzzle to work.... so ( Read more... )

I never liked sushi anyway

Gripe 1: "Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track" by Feynman is the same book as "Don't You Have Time to Think ( Read more... )

40 or more schools teaching bullshit in science classes* via the New Humanist blog.

That's quite a bit more than I expected to be perfectly honest.

*I mean in a really bad way. They teach creationism to the exclusion of evolution. "Teaching the controversy" is bad enough outside a sociological context (in other words, teaching that there are ( Read more... )

The comments in many cases are either hilarious or terrifying, I'm not sure which.

I emailed the council a couple of days ago to complain that our local creationist museum was on their tourism website with a description that was rather biased and looked like it was by the council rather than the museum itself, and that it was also classified as a science centre ( Read more... )