Thank you for the kind words, and the aerofoil story. I'm pretty physics phobic, so that was never part of my world, but it's nice to hear of parents filling their kids minds with knowledge instead of fantasies and religious myths.
I have a mathematics background, an interest in science, and an unapologetic impatience for sloppy thinking. This puts me at odds with both right and left. It's high time the rational scientific viewpoint got the rabid proponent it deserves. I fight nonsense so the scientists don't have to. The blog is not necessarily about science, but rather is a scientific view of the world. Rational, civilly expressed, factually supported thought-out opposing views are welcome. Disparaging, irrational, intentionally obtuse, troll-like whack-a-mole, quote-mining posts will be dispatched without hesitation or apology, as will tit-for-tat partisan "the other side does it too" political gamesmanship, and opinions of what topics I should be writing about. We don't do that here.
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Heh, they certainly had that coming.
You have a sharply written and hard-hitting blog.
I especially enjoyed your "little girl in the airport" article.
I once overheard a little girl asking her mom: "Mummy how do angels fly?"
And her mom goes: "Oh they have magical dust on their wings dear."
I don't know why that answer annoyed me so much, but I'm sure glad my mother never taught me about angels or magical dust.
Instead I spent my childhood learning and building the "magic curve" - the aerofoil that allows real things to really fly.
I write a science blog called Fresh Brainz mainly about evolutionary biology and some astronomy.
Would you like to exchange blog links?
Best regards!
Thank you for the kind words, and the aerofoil story. I'm pretty physics phobic, so that was never part of my world, but it's nice to hear of parents filling their kids minds with knowledge instead of fantasies and religious myths.
As for the blog link swap, consider it done.
Thanks. Much appreciated!
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