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There has been a recent increase in comics and graphic art that cover topics relating to science and logic. If you are looking for a little fun reading while sitting in the airport or metal transportation-box of your choice, here are some spots to check out: PHD Comics: Piled Higher and Deeper These charming strips were started [...] This MUST work! They have pictures! Good news to all the homeless in Arizona. Apparently, poking needles into your ears will in fact help warm you up! WAHOO!! It seems that the Phoenix Institute of Herbal Medicine and Acupuncture College & Clinic, Phoenix’s only accredited acupuncture school, has decided to help the homeless with a [...] I Want You: To join me in poorly educating my civilians It’s tough sometimes, being an American. Sure, we have a bit more money and a couple more bombs than anyone else in the world, but on some issues, I feel like we’re just that little bit inadequate. Like… evolution. It seems that our little [...] This is what was inside of me One of the most annoying questions that can be asked of a middle school math teacher is, “When am I ever going to use this in the real world?” Part of the annoyance is that for most kids, it’s kind of true. I don’t know about [...] I have no objection, in principle, to celebrities using their bully pulpits to push whatever cause they like. If I were a wealthy, gorgeous, powerful individual with millions of people following my every move, I would do everything I could to bend the teeming masses to my will. What depresses me is how many of [...] Ninety-one percent of Americans correctly responded that aspirin is recommended to prevent heart attacks. (Photo from wiki commons.) So the Pew study from this summer showed that only 32% of the public “think that humans, or other living things have evolved due to natural processes.” But, that statistic by itself doesn’t say a whole lot, [...] Simple schematic of a Helium atom with its two electrons. According to the Pew study, only 46% of those surveyed answered correctly that an atom is larger than an electron. Preamble In “What Do I Do Next?” a list of 105 ways to become an active skeptic , editor Daniel Loxton and his colleagues discuss personal relationships at length. Karen Stollznow, editor of The Skeptic magazine reminds us that: We are always representatives for skepticism, and should always be ready to discuss a skeptical perspective, where appropriate, [...] "A Venerable Orang-outang", a caricature of Charles Darwin published in The Hornet, 1871 Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum, co-authors of “Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future,” wrote an op-ed piece for the Guardian yesterday rehashing their views on the tumultuous relationship between science and religion. Their points have all been made before… and [...] Saturday night I zoomed up the Catalina Highway, a 28-mile serpentine course through craggy mountains leading to the tippy-top of Mt. Lemmon. An impressive 9,157 feet above Tucson, Arizona, sits the Mt. Lemmon Observatory. Operated in conjunction with the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory, Mt. Lemmon has a research station that is home to some [...] |
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