The Dude abides.

Turning a sphere inside out

Three questions:

Can you turn a circle inside out?
Can you turn a sphere inside out?
If you were a betting man (or woman, as it may be), and you were told either (1) or (2) were true, would you bet that the other question answers true as well?

Here is a mind blowing Google Video on topology that [...]

On the philosophy of science

“Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds” - Richard Feymann

The Angkasawan Programme is a political sham

Colin Charles beat me to the blog post but his writing mirrors the thoughts I have been having about the Angkasawan sham since it was announced some years ago. When the Angkasawan programme was first announced, I wrote and predicted in a different blog that the programme would be used as a political “feel-good” tool [...]

T-Rex was a coconut eater!

From Alternet, on the Creationist museum:
“Before Adam and Eve were expelled from paradise, museum visitors are told, all of the dinosaurs were peaceable plant-eaters. The evidence is found in Genesis 1:30, where God gives “green herb” to every creature to eat. There were no predators. T-Rex had such big teeth, the museum explains, so it [...]

Skeletons in our closets

In 1984 in Kenya, the most complete skeleton of a young boy was found. While relegated to spend most of the last two decades in Kenya’s museum cabinet, recently the skeleton was put on public display.
Guess who got pissed off?
Yup, the religious extremists. They have never liked evolution, have they? The Bishop Boniface (yes, that’s [...]