Archive for: Albert Einstein

Rod Quantock: global warming’s just not funny

Rod Quantock: global warming’s just not funny

Tweet Activist comedian, Rod Quantock, promises you’ll be “apoplectic with fear” (or just plain “scared shitless”) as he takes you with him through the gates of hell into the catastrophic world of runaway global...

 

Nuclear energy isn’t the answer to global warming

Nuclear energy isn’t the answer to global warming

Tweet While nuclear energy has no direct carbon footprint, it is still a contributor to global warming; we know this, because Einstein tells us so. Guy Lane explains. Cooling towers at a nuclear power plant. Nuclear energy produces vast amounts...

 

Einstein, climate change denial and politics

Einstein, climate change denial and politics

Tweet In the same way that Einstein’s general theory of relativity became a political battleground between progressives and conservatives, so has climate science been traduced says Professor Clive Hamilton. IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE a scientific...

 

Five living scientists you really should know

Five living scientists you really should know

TweetScience buff John Turnbull lists five outstanding living scientists that everyone should know about. Here’s a little experiment for you: next time you’re having a conversation with a friend (or stranger, whatever takes your fancy)...

 

Why people reject science

Why people reject science

TweetWhy do people distrust science? Why do some of us reject consensus on a whole range of scientific findings? As Professor Stephan Lewandowsky explains, it often comes down to the way we look at the world. What does Albert Einstein’s theory...

 

Selling science: the lure of the dark side

Selling science: the lure of the dark side

Tweet“It only seems to be those theories that cause us to change our lifestyle or question our religious beliefs that suffer the wrath of the new breed of ‘sceptics’ or ‘cynics,’” says astrophysicist Matthew...

 

Abandoning science obstructs understanding

Abandoning science obstructs understanding

Tweet Tony Backhouse says, “People may never know the answer to “Life the Universe and Everything” but abandoning science obstructs understanding”. In reply to the Sydney Morning Herald front page story “He’s...

 
 
 
 

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