The Secular Seven
From ‘Only Sky’ by Phil Zucherman, March 24, 2023 There have always been non-believers. But for the first time in recorded history, there are now numerous societies with a majority of people […]
Entries by Buckwheat
Fighting an Infodemic with Cognitive Vaccines
From the World Health Organization’s (WHO) website: An infodemic is too much information including false or misleading information in digital and physical environments during a disease outbreak. It causes confusion […]
Governing Bodies Can Implode
On August 16, 1999, Alberta’s Learning Minister, Lyle Oberg, dissolved the Calgary Board of Education and appointed temporary trustees. The board had become so dysfunctional that it imploded. Some board […]
First Images from the James Webb Space Telescope
From the NASA website below The dawn of a new era in astronomy has begun as the world gets its first look at the full capabilities of NASA’s James Webb […]
UN Treaty to Control Plastic Pollution
From: CBC’s Quirk and Quarks, March 12th, 2022 Episode: On March 2, at a meeting of the United Nations Environmental Assembly in Nairobi, the world’s nations agreed to negotiate a global […]
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Launches Soon
Hi KASHA science fans, The launch date for this new space telescope is scheduled for December 25 but it can be delayed. See the latest information on the launch time […]
Homeopathic remedies: Investigating drugstore chains
Source: CBC Market Place – https://www.cbc.ca/news/marketplace Some pharmacists working in Canada’s top drugstores are recommending homeopathic products to consumers, even though, experts say, these products are essentially sugar water or […]
UBC scientist paved the way for groundbreaking mRNA COVID vaccines
UBC researcher developed the packaging for the vaccine’s payload that delivers it to our cells Pieter Cullis is a professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of British […]
Conference on Religious Trauma 2021
May 11, 2021 – May 16, 2021 KASHA is pleased to announce KASHA member Janice Selbie’s on-line conference on religious trauma. KASHA members can get a discount of $15 USD […]
Okanagan Astronomers’ Photo Made the Cover of the 2021 Observer’s Handbook
During the time of the Covid, stargazing and astronomy have become a very popular pastime. We can all go outside and look up. There is an active astronomy group in […]