Space freighter on NASA TV.

Normally I don’t have links to news articles however the BBC actually has decent science reporters and here’s a good article on the Automated Transfer Vehicle used to transfer gear to the International Space Station. The test maneuvers tonight will probably make good viewing on NASA TV.
March 31, Monday
10 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. – Coverage [...]

‘Earth Hour’ Stupidity

I have already posted about the previous earth hour in the US and how pointless it was. Now in 2008 this inane concept has spread around the world like some sort of IQ destroying virus.
Firstly I must say that I’m convinced the earths climate is changing much more rapidly than our current society can handle. [...]

Dave, my mind is going..

After living a quite productive life Authur C Clarke has passed away today.  Many have already blogged  about his passing  and it is apparent his writing touched many peoples lives. I remember reading his books in the 70’s along with similar writers like Asimov and others of the old guard who had grown out of [...]

When ‘helping’ really hurts..

Mercy Ministries is a Christian evangelical group with the aim of helping young women with various problems and issues. From their website we have “As our program is based on Christian principles the young women in the program are involved in a local church and attend other Christian based activities during the week. When living at Mercy Ministries [...]

Another step forward in vision research

Reported in New Scientist if new research showing that an fMRI “can pick out brain activity associated with different images.” Unforunatley the title of the article “Mind-reading machine knows what the eye sees” will lead to the story being picked up by the regular press as yet another ‘fMRI can read your brain’ articles. I’m [...]