Life Follows Art
The Great Wave off Kanagawa is an iconic Japanese painting and as Ben Macintyre said in The TImes yesterday, it offers a grim reflection of reality.
The Earth Bites Back
This was the title of a lunchtime lecture at University College London on March 3rd. Professor Bill Mcguire argued that we’d see a lot more natural disasters, as the earth responded to our treatment of it.
And now we’ve had two major earthquakes in a short space of time in Christchurch and now Japan.
They may not be connected, but it doesn’t man that we should let up in our efforts to cut carbon emissions and other practices that damage our environment.
Mad Mullah Science
I almost gave myself a hernia laughing at this story on the BBC. Apparently, according to one Iranian cleric, promiscuous women cause earthquakes. Here’s the first few paragraphs.
Promiscuous women are responsible for earthquakes, a senior Iranian cleric has said.
Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi told worshippers in Tehran last Friday that they had to stick to strict codes of modesty to protect themselves.
“Many women who do not dress modestly lead young men astray and spread adultery in society which increases earthquakes,” he said.
Tens of thousands of people have died in Iran earthquakes in the last decade.
It gives a whole new meaning to “Did the earth move for you?”
What a load of old rubbish.
On a serious side, according to PeopleQuake, Iran will be very short of people, as Iranian women have decided that giving birth to children in such a country is not a good idea for their lot. The birthrate is well below that needed to sustain the population.
Perhaps the Mad Mullah could read some science from some of the many educated people in his country.
The Anonymous Widower 