When to comes to the adoption and fostering of children, new government sponsored Christianity rules allow some citizens to discriminate against other citizens.
What Australians really think about religion.
Child sexual abuse inquiry criticizes lack of cooperation from Vatican.
Bill Barr – A religious bigot who plays the victim. Paula White finds herself doing battle with Satan on her first day in the job.
The pill that makes us ill.
This weeks’ Woo: Firehosing – How anti-vaxxers spread misinformation.
Climate Crisis: More than 11,000 scientists issue fresh warning.
Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity is 100 SpaceTime years old. (See video below). In a Quantum Universe Space and Time may be continuous rather than discrete. A new study suggests that the Universe is a closed sphere rather than being flat.
Voyager 2 sends a message from interstellar space. Tomorrow the planet Mercury will be parading across the face of the Sun.
Brazil’s flat Earthers to get their day in the sun.
The Satanic Temple takes control of the mind of a therapist.
An atheist’s guide to Alcoholics Anonymous.
Meet the pigs that could solve the human organ transplant crisis.
The Catholic Church helped give rise to intellectual thought since the Middle-Ages. (Reg- surely a typo?).
A.I. solves the “Three body Problem” that has perplexed astronomy for years in under a second.
How to be an Epicurean.
Stephen Fry and the “Every Human Being” campaign.
Long Read: Mike Pence and the rerouting of foreign aid to Christian groups.
This week I am reading these books: There are 3 new books on Human Consciousness. I will start with Koch’s book as I once attended a lecture of his and found him very interesting. (See video below).
Some photographs taken last week.
While you are waiting for the kettle to boil…..
Coffee Break Video: Christof Koch – The Future of Consciousness. BBC – Do you really understand Einstein’s theory of relativity?
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