The difference between astrology and astronomy 20 Aug 2009 … about 50 IQ points: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4F5z8cVux0&hl=en&fs=1&] General Science Humor Religion
Humor Civil insolence 22 Jan 2010 I am vaguely amused and slightly disgusted that the issue over which I left Science Blogs is still going. Henry Gee writes of it at the recent ScienceOnline2010 meet. I was mentioned in despatches, so I replied thus: The reason I left Science Blogs was in very large part because… Read More
Philosophy A night about religion 1 Oct 2010 I’m part of a tag team night for the Student Philosophy Association at the University of Queensland. The Facebook page is here. I’m arguing for… guess which? Read More
Humor Achieving enplightenment – Amusing typogarphical errors 3 3 Oct 2007 The estimable and overproductive Neil Levy* at CAPPE at my alma mater, has sent me Terry Pratchett’s and Stephen Brigg’s book/diary Lu-Tse’s Yearbook of Enlightenment 2008, with a note “To help you chart your course into unemployment”. For which I give much thanks, as it also contains many analects of… Read More
How interesting. I just pointed out on Pharyngula that the ancient Greeks did do astrology. However, the video is pretty funny.
Yes, they did, mostly based on a set of ideas from Anatolia which codified the Persian practices, but they also did astronomy. But you can’t expect historical accuracy from a video which mentions Zeus as a living individual…