At a funeral I recently attended I was, I suppose, slightly amused to see a nearby headstone in the cemetery draped with a “Happy 100th Birthday” banner. It seems vaguely ludicrous to celebrate the birthday of someone who is dead – yet, for many who have been bereaved, although they Read more…
Jonathan Amos, a Science Correspondent for the BBC, has a piece on their website that is a classic illustration of the pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo that is being passed off on the public as science fact. Prof. Dimitar Sasselov, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has apparently discovered a rocky planet that Read more…
The BBC Website is carrying a piece by Tom Shakespeare, a Quaker, entitled “Is it better to be religious than spiritual?“. In it he comments on the growing practice of describing one’s belief system as “spiritual but not religious”. Many people, for a variety of reasons, have rejected organised religion Read more…