Monkey Tale

87.5% of statistics are made up on the spot is a silly little joke that probably isn’t too far off the truth. All the time I hear statistics quoted in favour of certain arguments, but if you look closely there is always some bending of the facts. I have listed some of them that come […]

I have always been a fan of Richard Dawkins, we share a lot of common beliefs which is ironic when you consider that Dakwins’s book is all about getting rid of beliefs. That’s not strictly true of course, the books aim is to help the reader realise that all beliefs should be based on scientific […]

Last year I saw a fantastic film called Idiocracy. The film illustrates in a most humorous way how things could be in several hundred years if stupid people started breeding at a phenomenal rate while smarter people just worked and worried throughout their lives. In this future, the smartest man on the planet is what […]

This is one of those questions that has bothered me a bit for a while until I found the answer, now I am more bothered. Think about the question before I give you the answer. How do TV broadcasters report that say 10 million people watched a certain soap opera on TV yesterday?
Although Television sets […]