Moon, past and future

Some spectacular photos of the moon and what might be on it in the not-to-distant future. You can see why people can argue that the shots are faked – they look like the worst kind of photoshopped montages in some respects.

Al-Qaeda´s propaganda

I haven´t seen much splash about Al-Qaeda recently – it seems that they are making waves, just not in the Western media. Very interesting that they have learned to be better at internet communications than their opponents (i.e. us).

Anniversaries

Some anniversaries we should bear in mind (they are not quite on the right days, though) June 22nd – when Galileo had to recant the heliocentric model July 1st – first reading of a composite paper on natural selection – neither Darwin or Wallace are...

Compulsory voting

Lords of the Blog comes up trumps in a well-argued discussion on compulsory voting. I´ve changed my mind from pro (as memorably expressed to John Sergeant at an event he was doing for us) to probably anti. We shouldn´t paper over a lack of trust in...