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Open Parachute

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Discussion of science, religion and art from a philosophical direction and in the interests of promoting respect and toleration

Added on: May 22nd, 2007
Country: New Zealand
Language: English

Author: Ken Perrott
Listed in: Science Religion
Tags: art, religion, science, new zealand, diversity, astheism

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Are science and religion compatible?

Posted on Tuesday March 16th, 2010 at 11:30 am in religion science christianity atheism Evolution

“Science and Religion” seems to be a popular topic for debate on the internet these days. Even in New Zealand Richard Dawkins‘ recent visit encouraged 14 religious scientists, historians and theologians to produce their own statemen...
Swiftboating science

Posted on Sunday March 14th, 2010 at 11:30 am in global warming science environment climate change Evolution

“Swiftboating” is a new term for me – and for science, I guess. But it is part of US political jargon. To quote Wikipedia: “Swiftboating . . is used as a strong pejorative description of some kind of attack that the speaker ...
Chris Mooney interviews Michael Mann on “climategate”

Posted on Thursday March 11th, 2010 at 10:30 am in politics global warming science environment climate change

This is an interesting interview (download MP3). Michael Mann has been vilified by climate change deniers. His work on the so-called “hockey stick” graph is still being misrepresented despite being validated by the US National research ...
Science bloggers talk teaching

Posted on Wednesday March 10th, 2010 at 10:30 am in science blog blogging teaching blogosphere

Three of SciBlogs NZ bloggers are collaborating on a new blog directed at teaching. I wish them well – it’s an important area. Science bloggers in New Zealand have a much higher profile since the SciBlogs platform was launched last Octobe...
Great photo of the Solar Corona

Posted on Tuesday March 9th, 2010 at 10:30 am in photo science astronomy iphone eclipse

This photograph of the sun’s corona is a real beauty. it was captured by Miloslav Druckmüller and colleagues from Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic, during an eclipse on July 22, 2009. They were located on Enewetak Atoll in the Mar...