Creation Science 101

I came across Roy Zimmerman some time ago. He's a tremendous satirical whit. Couple that with an impressive musical talent and you have someone who cuts right to the heart of the problems inherent in the American political system. This is one of my favorites but you really should check out the whole song list at YouTube.
Also check out his website: www.royzimmerman.com. Enjoy.

MC Stevie Hawking Check It

You may remember CERN the world's largest particle physics lab in Geneva that was eluded to in Dan Brown's prequel to the DaVinci Code "Angels and Demons". In the novel he had the particle physics lab creating small amounts of anti-matter with possibly dire results. Well, CERN is 28 days from startup and are the physics nerds concerned with the possibility of destroying the galaxy? No they aren't and to explain exactly what it is they are up to, they've put together a rap video. Yep nerds doin' rap. Whoda thunk? The MC sounds a lot like Steven Hawkings meets Homer Simpson. As they say in the video, Check It!

CERN Rap from Will Barras on Vimeo.

The Genius of Charles Darwin

Richard Dawkins whose recent book "The God Delusion" has rocked the religious right has produced another brilliant documentary. If you aren't familiar with his work you should visit his website. Dawkins is one of the greatest proponents of Darwin, a professor of biology, holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford, a brilliant author, orator and documentary producer. The BBC is currently airing a three part series entitled "The Genius of Charles Darwin". Sadly there's little hope we'll see it here in North America since our media content is controlled by the theocracy to the south. Thanks however to YouTube you can view Part 1 of the series on-line.
Expect a great deal more postings in this blog related to science vs religion.

Subliminal Advertising:

It's been a long time since I heard about subliminal advertising. I knew it existed once and always thought of it as a failed experiment. Apparently not. Check out this examination of an Iron Chef episode on the Food Channel. Spooky! Hey, Guv maybe you should consider subliminal ads on www.deaconswebsite.com What do you think? You're big on swf files.

Western researcher develops HIV AIDS vaccine

This is the good news. "A pioneering HIV/AIDS vaccine developed by a virology professor at The University of Western Ontario is being readied for clinical trial.
The vaccine developed by Dr. Yong Kang, of the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry could be available for therapeutic use within three years and for use as a preventive vaccine within the next six years." They do some really fine science at the UWO here in London Ontario.