Science & Space

Andy on November 22nd, 2011

I have been blogging here for some time now and this morning I was looking back at some of my earlier posts, in particular those with video content. I re watched the excellent TED talk by Michael Shermer in this

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Andy on August 23rd, 2011

I have just watched the National Press Club featuring the British climate change denier Chris Monckton (you can watch it here) in it’s entirety and came away with the sad feeling that it doesn’t matter how much scientific evidence …

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Andy on June 23rd, 2011

I have written a few posts about evolution in the past, usually defending the theory, but attempting to convince creationists what evolution is about is really a pointless exercise due to their unwillingness – or inability – to look at …

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Andy on March 24th, 2011

Thousands of kilometres of Australia’s shoreline are being severely affected by the rising sea levels this month. The state and federal governments are frantically organising the army, SES and contractors to begin building the sea barriers that will hold off …

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Andy on May 15th, 2009

A while back I wrote an article on ‘micro-evolution’ and used the commonly quoted ‘Peppered Moth’ studies to illustrate natural selection and evolution. However, a recent commenter pointed out that in fact, the British entomologist Bernard Kettlewell’s experiments that set …

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