BIG announcement about the BIG Questions! "Not 42: The REAL meaning of Life the Universe and Everything" Podcast Series is available now! What is Truth? Where does meaning come from? Is there a God? What does it mean to be human? Can our species survive? peterdfisher.com/podcasts

From my article in "Free Inquiry" magazine.

“We live in a world that increasingly wants people to ask not, ‘What is true?’ but ‘What should I believe?’” @peterdfisher in @FreeInquiry on why creationism endures and what it reveals about the psychology of belief: secularhumanism.org/2025/09/…

Falling in love is what our species does, unlike the great apes: chimps, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans, but like the "lesser" apes: gibbons and siamangs, and like other primates like titi monkeys.

Is Our Universe Inside a Black Hole? sbee.link/8hxgu7ycd6

There is a danger that we underplay the role of natural processes in the evolution of advanced sentient systems. Evolution "designed" brains to maximise survival and reproduction and may have used analogue processes, we don't yet understand, that are not digitally replicable.

Putin is making it very clear that any truce in Ukraine will come only when he is defeated. We talk, he kills Ukrainians. We talk some more, he kills more Ukrainians. He has openly said he wants to destroy Ukraine and that is his war aim. A combined Ukrainian-US-European effort will be needed to defeat him badly enough that he wants a crease fire. Until then he will keep lying and killing. We don’t need a single American military person fighting in Ukraine. We do need to provide advanced weapons in quantity, permission to hit against military targets in Russia and vastly expanded sanctions against Russia. Only then will a ceasefire be possible.

My only comment would be when will we get to the 'new normal'? Even if the world hit net zero tomorrow, there will still be millions of tonnes of legacy carbon in the atmosphere.

It's just been suggesting, on the BBC, that we might need to get used to these new high temperatures. Unfortunately, it's not THIS heat we need to get used to because, according to the science, it's going to get a lot worse.

Here is how science works. First, we guess at the nature of reality. "Then we compute the consequences of the guess to see what would be implied if this law that we guessed is right. Then we compare the result of the computation to nature, with experiment or experience, compare it directly with observation, to see if it works. It it disagrees with experiment, it is wrong" Richard Feynman.

RT @Met4CastUK: Insanity. Huge parts of Europe will be 14-15°C ABOVE the long term average as the heatwave peaks Monday & Tuesday. https:…

Sounds like the kind of book everyone should read.

Storks turned this high-voltage pole into a village

Oh, don't little boys love playing with their big toys?

“I can't see ANY of this happening if more women were leaders... Take the Massive Ordnance Penetrator - which sounds more like a sex toy than a bomb - for example.” @maitlis criticises male-dominated leadership for stoking fears of WWIII through reckless global brinkmanship.

'The assisted dying bill’s final Commons vote today is no abstract debate about slippery slopes or what God wants: to do nothing is to inflict torture on many.' @pollytoynbee's message to MPs voting today – an historic day for UK politics. theguardian.com/commentisfre…

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When you see a Great White Egret from underneath you can clearly see that they're descended from dinosaurs! 😮😁🐦

90% of Americans -- Ds and Rs alike -- agree it's wrong to treat animals this way. State ballot measures to ban this cruelty have won easily, from CA to FL. Now pork industry lobbyists are pushing Congress to wipe out these state bans in the Farm Bill. They must be stopped.

What have we done? A whale-watching company in Ireland has closed down permanently because huge trawlers have left nothing but "an empty, lifeless sea". All the dolphins and humpback, minke & fin whales have disappeared, leaving nothing left to watch. Source in 🧵

"Because if you’re not careful, ideology won’t just shape your opinions; it’ll hijack your ability to reason altogether." stevestewartwilliams.com/p/w…