A history of life on Earth, compressing 4 billion years into 1 hour or so. Starting with the origin of life, through to the origin of animals, then onto the colonisation of land, through the first insects, dinosaurs, their extinction, then the rise of mammals, and finally ending in the Ice Ages and the origin of humans. Date: Wednesday 01 ...

On Monday 30 July, Cyprus FreeThinkers is organising a talk on extinction rates through time, given by Marc Srour at the University of Cyprus. It is free to attend and aimed at the general public, so feel free to come and invite anyone (you can also print out the poster above for advertising). Below are the details. A Facebook events ...

Note: You can read this post on my own blog. This talk is aimed at the basic, general public level, and is about how science is done through the scientific method, and how to differentiate ideas that belong in the yellow circle downwards from the ideas that are in the nebulous circles outside. To save it from being a very ...

  As the only way to find out facts about the world, the scientific method is one of the cornerstones of modern civilisation. Its application is not limited to the sciences though. Knowledge and application of the scientific method, even if only intuitively, is critical for having a well-balanced worldview. In this talk, the tenets of the scientific method will ...