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I find it hugely frustrating to see people insist that creationism or it’s bastard child – Intelligent Design – are true when anyone with the barest flicker of intelligence can see that the facts that exist at least strongly suggest … Continue reading →

Did you know that most elements in your body heavier than oxygen – and every element heavier than iron – is made in supernovas? Think about it: the gold in your wedding ring is only ever made in stars when … Continue reading →

I’ve just seen someamazing news: Sweden aims to be 100% free of oil within 15 years! – this is just amazing: if a major, developed first workd country like Sweden can wean itself away from oil TOTALLY… then why can’t … Continue reading →

Aviation fuel is not taxed at the moment.. so one of the biggest contributors to CO2 production has no economic brake on it! Everyone else on the planet is paying the environmental cost of all flights that everyone else takes! … Continue reading →

Another small thing you can do – here, now, today – to help the environment is sign up to help with the Climate Prediction experiment at http://www.climateprediction.net/ This is another one of those distributed processing concepts where spare computational power … Continue reading →

My Other Half is only just realising this fact – it is something I myself only gradually became aware of over many years – but the scruffier and untidier someone is then the nicer they are (as a general rule … Continue reading →

Another theory of mine is that anyone who is a humanist is a better person than someone who is good because their religion tells them to be. To me a humanist is someone who acts in a decent and kind … Continue reading →

The fundamental problem with.. gun ownership on a massive scale I read a blog recently that contained some excellent points in favour of gun ownership and against gun control. It was excellently written and raised points I had never considered … Continue reading →

I tend to think about things a lot – some would say too much. I think about people I despise – like Aryan or white supremacists – and think about the many, many different ways in which they are wrong. … Continue reading →

It was a cold Saturday morning in November 1998, and I was on my way to meet Bryan Talbot at the Bluecoat Chambers in Liverpool. It is a weird thing to meet your hero, and I was filled with anticipation: … Continue reading →