1. Periodic Table of Videos

Comment #210929 by eddington on July 15, 2008 at 9:09 am

The reason why brainiac faked the caesium experiment is because when they tried it first time not a lot happened. The slight problems with caesium are;
It's more dense than water so it sank to the bottom. This means that there's no available oxygen to burn any of the hydrogen produced.

Caesium has relatively big atoms. This means in say 5 grams of caesium there are less moles (atoms). So although the reaction be quicker there would be less volume of hydrogen produced.

Nevertheless I'm not going to volunteer to try putting caesium into a bath of HCL

Liquid Helium has to be my favourite. If I could find a beaker it would stay in.

2. These dim-wits believe in anything but God

Comment #181505 by eddington on May 17, 2008 at 10:24 am

Currently its the law (enforced by OFSTED or ESTYN) that every child must take part in collective worship everyday. Personally I find it appauling when we (I'm currently in a sixth form) get told such fallacies as morals come from religion.
If anything in the UK we tend to suffer from a lack of religious education. Generally the sexism and genocide in the bible are not mentioned.

3. The Group Delusion

Comment #110587 by eddington on January 11, 2008 at 2:17 pm

Hello
This is the first time I've ever posted on here. I'm an A level student who partly regrets the poor teaching that I, at least, had of evolution.
It was not until after gcses that I read some of Mr Dawkins's books on evolution that I actually felt hey this evolution lark actually makes sense.
Now when I talk to people about evolution very few people understand it enough and so are suckered into the false idea of irreducible complexity as evidence against it. (I think the way its taught gave me the idea that evolution is capable at explaining why rabbits have long ears as opposed to short ears rather than explaining how the ear formed originally.)
I was just wondering if Mr Dawkins would find it worthwhile to make widely available (not many school children visit this site I don't think), a concise yet simple explanation of evolution for school children to access when they are studying evolution. Maybe then more people would grow up realising we do have an explanation of where we come from other than Thor did it.
P.S. Sorry for making this message so long but I'm not a talented enough word-smith to make how strongly I feel let down by school on this extremely important topic, known succinctly.