Ionian Enchantment
A blog by meadon
Blog description:
A science and skepticism blog featuring posts on evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, Darwinism, pseudoscience, atheism and much more
Blog Rank:
Ionian Enchantment ranks 89 in Africa and 54 in South Africa. According to site visitors it ranks 332, and 309 according to page views:
According to blogroll links it ranks 138 and 104 according to the amount of links within Afrigator blog posts
Calling Africa's science nerds
In light of all of our problems - poverty, witch hunts, anti-vaccinationism, quackery, religious obscurantism of various kinds, and so on - it has long seemed obvious to me that Africa badly needs skepticism, science, logic and reason. The great Sir Francis Bacon wrote in the Novum Organum that: Human
Nerdies 2010: The Final
So I've asked you to nominate and vote in the semi-finals for Angela and Owen in the 2010 Nerdies. Now it's the final and I'm going to ask you to vote one more time: do so here for Owen (in the guy category) and here for Angela (in the girl
Time Online's Top 30 Science Blogs
Times Online has released their choice of the 30 best science blogs. Several of my favorite blogs got the nod, including, Carl Zimmer's The Loom, Vaughn Bell's Mind Hacks, Ed Yong's Not Exactly Rocket Science, Orac's Respectful Insolence, and Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy. The picks are, I think,
In Praise of Deference
It is common to hear that you should make up your own mind and not let other people make it up for you. While I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment and believe it’s silly to be obsequious to arbitrary authority, I nonetheless think intellectual deference is both unavoidable and a
Carnival of the Africans #13: The Zombie Edition
The lovely Angela of The Skeptic Detective has brought the Carnival of the Africans back from the dead! (She prefers to call it "The Phoenix Edition". Zombies are cooler. Evidence at right). A couple of picks: James of Acinonyx Scepticus on why playing the lotto is a really bad idea,
Video: Witch Trials in Africa
Reuters on witch trails in the Central African Republic. Idiocy. (Here's the direct link). Please sign this petition against witch hunting in Africa. This evil must stop.
Telegraph Science Journalism Fail: Or, ARRRRGHHHH!!!111!
I was alerted to an absolutely daft article in the Telegraph via Derren Brown's Blog (who, disappointingly, didn't seem to notice it's daft). Basically, the article completely misrepresents a paper, "Bonobos Exhibit Delayed Development of Social Behavior and Cognition Relative to Chimpanzees", in press at Current Biology. The paper showed,
Who's your Nerdy?
Last week I asked readers to nominate Angela (of The Skeptic Detective and @skepticdetectiv) for a Nerdy NomNom, an award for the sexiest and generally most awesome nerd in South Africa. Well, it turns out both she and another fantastic skeptical blogger, Owen Swart (of 01 and the universe and
The scale of the universe
I've linked to a video that puts the scale of the universe into perspective, but that started with Pluto and worked its way up. Now Newgrounds user Fotoshop has created an awesome interactive flash animation showing the scale of the universe from the very smallest - the Planck scale -
Video: Holy Shit Man Walks on Fucking Moon
Okay, so I've probably been posting too many videos of late, but this is just awesome. It's video rendition of the Onion piece (in Our Dumb Century) on the moon landing. It's embedded below, and here's the direct link: By the way, if anyone wants to
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