Ciaran’s Omnipurpose Blog

I saw this this evening and found it inspiring.

I think homeopathy’s nonsense. One very good reason is here. Dawkins also explains it well here. The key point about homeopathy is that it claims to cure like with like but at high dilution. The standard dilution is what is referred to as “30C”, and this means that:

since the least amount of a substance in a solution is one molecule, a 30C solution would have to have at least one molecule of the original substance dissolved in a minimum of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 molecules of water. This would require a container more than 30,000,000,000 times the size of the Earth.

I found this image on b3ta today and loved it so much I thought I’d host a copy of it here. Take a look.

What a beautiful day!

The snow’s been falling thick and fast all day, and it’s been beautiful outside. I’m lucky to live in a very picturesque part of the world with narrow lanes and fields and hills. Click on the photos to enlarge them.

This is just 5 meters from my house. 2 cars were abandoned on the road and the police were called. Now the road is closed. I’m not going anywhere tomorrow.

This is on the fields near my place. Lit up in the distance is St. Mary’s Church on the top of the Hill.

Just behind the school at twilight.