Thursday, 27 March 2008

The 1st

To start off this blog I would like to invite you to navigate trough a very interesting website:
http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/
This is the website of a UK charity – or as we’d say in Portuguese “associação sem fins lucrativos” (“non profit association”) which I find much more appropriate because it has a wider meaning.
I find they are doing a very positive work on gathering information for the general public about science and scientific facts. Especially they aim to untangle the pseudo-scientific claims which grow like weeds nowadays and make unaware buyers spend money on expensive and ineffective junk.
They’re the “good science” defenders, which I find to be a very welcome and long time needed action! Though I myself never was much of an activist, I might just become one for this purpose.

Have fun, becoming an aware customer and citizen.

2 comments:

Pedro Pinto said...

correcções? ok: "non profit association" ;)

"untangle"... hum, I like it!
"weed", uh, I think you have just been referenced in Echelon and filed under "junkie"! lol

Aware customer, YES!! Aware citizens, double YES!!!

Bem-vinda Muna, mana mais nova da blogosfera.
bjs GRANDES

Pedro

cmendes said...

Olá Muna

Descobri por acaso este teu blog. Espero que estejas bem; pelo que escreves, pareces bem.

Na continuidade da recomendação da página que sugeriste (bem interessante, por sinal), recomendo outro em troca, que costumo ler com regularidade: de rerum natura:

http://dererummundi.blogspot.com

É escrito a várias mãos, por um físico, uma química, um filósofo, um biólogo, um matemático, uma pedagoga e uma bióloga. Os artigos são muitos, alguns bastante polémicos, mas quase sempre interessantes.

Bjs

Cátia