Keith’s Conundrums: The Large and the Small
Keith is back for December with a “small” conundrum.
Category: Science Literacy
Research before you Research – Predatory Journals
[This article initially appeared in the March 2018 edition of Critical Links, and is updated here with corrections and additional information.] Committed skeptics are often in the habit of viewing the content of Facebook pages and Internet publications with a solid level of skepticism, and many us have become practiced at detecting obviously bogus news…
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Why I Support Nuclear Power Generation
How a visit to a third world country confirmed what I’m learning about nuclear power.
Use Science, not Emotion, to Drive Climate Solutions
How do Canada’s top scientists react when challenged about the benefits of nuclear energy?
Conundrums: Probably
Last time … … I wrote of titles. Alex B. in his reply reinforces the religious nature of hockey in Quebec. A puzzle for another time, though I am reminded of what Uli Locher at McGill said in his sociology of religion class – he wasn’t going to define religion except by self-description by participants….