UNESCO World Radio Day 2019
Today is World Radio Day, the theme of which centres around “Dialogue, Tolerance and Peace” being that we celebrate the good that radio can do.
Sobering new photos from the Titanic
I stumbled across these images whilst reading something completely different, So I decided to do a little research on them. Here’s what I came up with.
Don’t believe the buy-bull
Cheer up, it’s all nonsense. 1. God drowns the whole earth. In Genesis 7:21-23, God drowns the entire population of the earth: men, women, children, fetuses, and perhaps unicorns. Only a single family survives. In Matthew 24:37-42, gentle Jesus approves of this genocide and plans to repeat it when he returns. 2. God kills half a […]
Science and early Christianity
Over the last thousand years Christianity has adopted many things from other religions, but it also took from science too. A Spherical Harmony The earliest ancient civilizations all shared the same fundamental view of the universe; that our earth lay at the centre. The characteristically inventive Sumerians of what we now call Iraq; the Amorite […]
Through all time I hold your hand
My family, my friends, everyone I knew were erased in that moment. Imagine falling from an aircraft a mile up without a parachute that’s kind of how it felt. That inevitable feeling of imminent death.
Paleontologists discover new fossil organism
Likely related to our ancestors, ‘Plexus ricei’ was much like a tapeworm or modern flatworm, say UC Riverside researchers Scientists at the University of California, Riverside have discovered a fossil of a newly discovered organism from the “Ediacara Biota” — a group of organisms that occurred in the Ediacaran period of geologic time. Named Plexus […]
BRAIN ACTIVITY MAY MARK THE BEGINNING OF MEMORIES
By tracking brain activity when an animal stops to look around its environment, neuroscientists at the Johns Hopkins University believe they can mark the birth of a memory. Using lab rats on a circular track, James Knierim, professor of neuroscience in the Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute at Johns Hopkins, and a team of brain scientists […]
The Bible, Man’s words not God’s.
My own view of the bible is that it was tribal and plagarised stories from other continents and cultures, watered down or copied and then adopted by a power hungry institution as a means to control. There are many versions of this book, and the Jehovah’s Witnesses cult have their own, but from where did […]
The pain of social exclusion
‘Social’ pain hurts physically, even when we see it in others We would like to do without pain and yet without it we wouldn’t be able to survive. Pain signals dangerous stimuli (internal or external) and guides our behaviour. Its ultimate goal is to prioritize escape, recovery and healing. That’s why we feel it and […]
100 uses for Muesli 