Omicron Update #2
A lot is being made of the fact that there have been no deaths thus far from the Omicron variant of Covid-19. This is brilliant news and could bring hope […]
Is Lewis Hamilton a Racist?
Wikipedia says: “Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to inherited attributes and can be divided based on the superiority of one race over another. It may also mean prejudice, discrimination, […]
Nimco Ali
Wiki says: Nimko Ali OBE (Somali: Nimco Cali), alternatively spelled Nimco (born c. 1983), is a British social activist of Somali heritage. She is the co-founder and CEO of The Five Foundation, the global partnership to end female genital mutilation (FGM). […]
Omicron Update #1
The above Tweet is by Professor Devi Lalita Sridhar FRSE who is both professor and chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh. Not some random hoaxer or conspiracy theorist on the […]
Planet Earth Needs More Carbon Dioxide
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is plant food. They use it to make proteins carbohydrates and fats that are eaten by animals, including us. They are what we are made of. So […]
The British Empire and Ceylon
The British Empire was based on trade, not plunder, unlike many other empires. We arrived at places that had not invented the wheel and we left them with universities, hospitals […]
Rejoice at the Cultural Enrichment. RNLI Edition
We have this: Which results in this:
Vaccine Lies, Hoaxes and Conspiracy Theories
Right now science and Big Pharma are in the middle of an amazing achievement. Stopping a pandemic. Saving tens of millions of lives. Greatly reducing the suffering of hundreds of […]
Preachy Entertainers Are Tedious Fools
Currently it is very on trend for entertainers such as soccer players, F1 drivers, singers and actors to virtue gesture by preaching to us about woke politics. They are the […]
How Covid Got Science a Bad Name
Science (from Latin scientia ‘knowledge’) is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the world. We owe the modern world and our quality of life to science. It has sorted out truth from […]
How Bad is Omicron Covid-19?
On 26 November the WHO decided to call the B.1.1.529 variant of Covid-19 Omicron, the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet. Which we know as O. They also decided that […]
Is Planet Earth Cooling?
It looks like we are headed into a Grand Solar minimum, a cyclical event of greatly reduces sunspot activity. We had one between 1645 and 1710, called the Maunder Minimum, […]