Here’s a sad story of a Muslim cleric who is also a scientist. He tried to expound evolution to Muslims but he experienced a backlash from the religious and, coupled with thinly veiled threats, was forced to backtrack on his previous evolution statements: I’ve already posted that scientists that are religious are in a dubious [...]
BBC Newsnight article on the role of the UK government/military in promoting the scam bomb detectors. If the claims are true, I have no qualms in stating that those involved in promoting these devices are morally decrepit, incompetent and evil. Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2011
News from skepticblog at http://skepticblog.org/2010/06/26/brits-do-something-about-phony-mediums-three-cheers/ that the United Kingdom is considering tougher laws to protect against fraudsters such as psychics, mediums, and spiritualists. Good. We’ve lived far too long in the Dark Ages and in the clutches of liars. Time to break free from these shackles and move forward. One of my previous posts that’s [...]
Retired judge Sir Mota Singh, a Sikh, recently made some comments that Sikhs must be allowed to carry Kirpans (a ceremonial dagger or knife) and be exempt from the prohibitions that forbid the carrying of knives to such places as schools. In UK law, there some seem to be some specific exemptions for “religious reasons” [...]
After the demise of Pandora‘s services here in the UK, it took me a long time to cotton-on that there was a home-grown alternative…Last.fm which, like Pandora, helps you to discover new music. The mechanisms that Pandora and Last.fm utilise for pattern-matching and discovering new music may differ but both are very useful services and [...]
There’s a lot of really good music being given airtime by a number of UK-based radio stations such as London’s “Capital Radio”. I do also listen to a lot of classical music, blues and some jazz through Internet-based radio stations but I did want to say something about some songs that I particularly liked at the [...]
