George Monbiot’s article today says that climate scientists around the world are mostly in agreement that it’s too late. We’ve squandered any opportunity we might have had in…
The Australian Government is officially fascist. They have officially stepped way, WAY over the line. There is no way they can justify blacklisting the Wikileaks site on the…
While Kevin Rudd’s emissions trading scheme seems to be hated by everyone, the IPCC says things are getting worse than even their worst-case scenarios. We’re all doomed. clipped…
Penn says drugs should be legal and he’s never touched them. I’ve barely touched them myself (a couple of attempts to smoke pot never really worked, I seem…
The great Clay Shirky says (albeit much more eloquently) what I’ve been saying for five years – that newspapers are dying because of their economics. Read the entire…
The American Chronicle has this article on the discrimination faced by atheists in the United States. I don’t see it as being as much of an issue in…
The big shock for me in this story is that Sesame Street only makes $145m a year? How is that possible? With all of that brand merchandising? I’m…
ROFL. I love it. clipped from www.youtube.com [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtR2m20C2YM&hl=en&fs=1]
If you haven’t already seen the “Sixth Sense” demo by Pranav Mistry that recently went up on TED.com, then STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND WATCH THIS NOW!…
My project with my kids this month is to teach them the scientific method. I think that this is perhaps one of the most important things we can…