The Search For Supernovae

Galaxy Zoo is asking for your help in finding supernovae. If you’d like to take part in The Hunt For Supernovae, please click here to register.

Galaxy Zoo Hunters Help Make Another Discovery

A while ago I wrote a post about the work that Galaxy Zoo volunteers are doing to help scientists classify galaxies. Since it’s launch  in 2007, over 230,000 volunteers from all over the world have helped classify one million images of galaxies taken by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. In February 2009, Galaxy Zoo 2 was [...]

The End Of The World Part 1 – Polar Shift, An Earth Shattering Experience

Since the beginning of recorded history, doomsday prophets have come up with many end-of-the-world scenarios. Earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and pestilence have been some of the popular choices of these soothsayers; but there is one mega disaster that is a little more interesting – a polar shift. Before I go into what a polar [...]

2012 – The End Of The World.

I’m going to be doing a series of posts on various end of the world predictions; many of which claim that the world will end in 2012. So, seeing as 2012 is not that far off, I thought that it would be a great topic to look into and to try and explain some of the [...]

Galaxy Zoo 2 Challenge

As part of the International Year of Astronomy, Galaxy Zoo 2  is celebrating 100 Hours of Astronomy this weekend by challenging people to make 1 million clicks in 100 hours. You don’t have to be a regular user at Galaxy Zoo, you can still register and join in this exciting project to help classify galaxies.
Galaxy [...]

South African and African Science and Sceptics Blogroll

Following a suggestion by Michael Meadon over at Ionian Enchantement; here is a list of African and South African Science and Sceptical bloggers which I will update from time to time. Please feel free to add to the list in the comments section and I will add them to the blogroll in future posts.
01 and the universe
Acinonyx [...]

Defying Logic

Dr. Anthony Turton was prevented from presenting a keynote address on the quality and delivery challenges of water in the Southern African region at a conference in Pretoria last week. Not only was Dr. Turton prevented from delivering his report, he was also suspended from the CSIR  for…. 
“certain statements – which could not be sufficiently substantiated”.
Dr.Turton’s report [...]

Atheists and Christmas

The silly season is looming again and this will be my first christmas as an out-of-the-closet atheist. Well sort of,……… there are still some members of the family and quite a few friends that don’t know yet and I’m not sure what their reaction is going to be. What counts is that those who really know [...]

Danie Krugel, it’s showdown time!

Every now and then a topic comes up in the news or on the internet that gets me angry enough to want to do something about it. One such topic is Danie Krugel and his magic box of tricks. For those of you who haven’t yet heard of Danie, he’s the head of Protection Services [...]

Charlie’s Playhouse

PZ Myers mentioned Charlie’s Playhouse on Pharyngula a couple of weeks ago and I went to their website to check them out – I’m always on the lookout for educational games and toys for the latest addition to our family. Anyhow, I received an email from Charlie’s Playhouse yesterday to let me know that they’re [...]