Science & Society

UK Deserves A Right To Housing- And Living Alone

The worst effects of the UK’s housing crisis include rising levels of homelessness, and growing numbers of people being housed in unsafe or overcrowded conditions. According to the charity Crisis, 59,890 households were accepted as homeless in England in ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 3 2018 - 10:15pm

Censorship Throughout History

Once upon a time we all knew what censorship was, who the good and bad guys were, and what could be done to make the world a better place. Look up the noun “censor” in the Oxford English Dictionary and you’ll find an outline of a much-told story under def ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 9 2018 - 6:12pm

Easy To Improve On Wikipedia In Topic Focused Encyclopedias (Ours: Astrobiology, Microtonal Music, Doomsday Debunked & Buddhism)

This originated as my answer to a question on the Quora question and answer site: "In what general knowledge domains do alternatives to Wikipedia exist that are significantly superior?". Of course there are examples of much better specialist enc ...

Article - Robert Walker - Sep 17 2018 - 6:59am

Why Is A Non-Browning Apple Less 'Natural' Than Non-Fat Milk?

Once upon a time, non-fat milk (the cream removed) was only used for fattening pigs. It was clearly a technological process to remove the cream but it is not considered "unnatural"- in 2012, the Obama administration even told schools to start ser ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 24 2018 - 12:45pm

Transgender: How We Opened the Door for Radicals to Co-Opt Gender Critical Feminism.

Gender critical feminism being used as a smoke screen for anti-transgender views is  a direct consequence of the transgender community abandoning the notion of brain sex.  Brain sex was a testable hypothesis that has since been tested out as true.  Yet so ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Sep 26 2018 - 8:46pm

Elizabeth Warren: 0.4% of DNA Doesn’t Make An American Indian.

D oes 0.4% chocolate ice cream and 99.6% vanilla not make vanilla? What Senator Warren does not get is that her ancestors did not pay the price of being American Indian in the last 200 + years at least.    That is why it is bogus for her to claim that ide ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Oct 15 2018 - 4:21pm

Pierce Brosnan Is Why The Science Community Should Boycott The Breakthrough Prize Foundation Ceremony On National Geographic

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation has breathlessly announced that "acclaimed actor, producer and philanthropist Pierce Brosnan" will host the Breakthrough Prize ceremony, which they have self-declared is the “Oscars of Science”, on November 4th. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 13 2019 - 4:47pm

Transgender: Don't Have To Like Us, Can't Define Us Away Anymore Than Any Other Part Of Human Nature.

W hether you believe transgender men are men or transgender women are women you cannot deny the basic fact that we exist.   You may not like that a group of people exist.  You may disagree with how a group of people either choose or are compelled by their ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Oct 23 2018 - 1:18pm

6 Essential Comic Books For Halloween

Comic books of the 1950s and 1960s made a point of their potential to terrify, with anthologies from Entertaining Comics, such as Haunt of Fear, Vault of Horror, and Tales of the Crypt, boasting covers with straplines such as “Within these pages dwell cre ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 31 2018 - 11:54am

Stephen Hawking: 'There Is No God'- God: 'There Is No Stephen Hawking'

In his just published final book, "Brief Answers to the Big Questions," physicist Satephen Hawking wrote, "There is no God. No one directs the universe" but in a universe where only 6% of what must exist is even matter that can be detec ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 1 2018 - 4:18pm