Saturday was a nice long day of moving two couples into two different apartments (friends both; I got a free lunch and dinner out of it), and the stars were out last night, as much as they can be in this city.  I sat out on the front steps and started matching actual stars and planets to the star maps in Stellarium - I think I might start doing it ( Read more... )

I've been following a few pro-science/anti-creationist blogs for the last couple of months, and thanks to one of them, I have discovered that evolution is not the only widely held scientific orthodoxy to be attacked by religious fundamentalists and Biblical literalists.  It turns out that a Catholic apologist website has issued a Geocentrism ( Read more... )