I was listening this past weekend to an NPR story about the history of chewing gum (see http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106439600&ft=1&f=1032). ...
opinion by Mortal | 21 wks ago | updated 21 wks ago 148 views | 1 recommendation | 0 comments
ScienceDaily (Apr. 20, 2009) — U.S. and Brazilian scientists have discovered that the brain manufactures proteins that act like marijuana at specific receptors in the brain itself. This discovery may lead to new marijuana-like drugs for managing pain, stimulating appetite,...
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Science and technology researcher Eric Drexler, on his new blog Metamodern.com, comments on the history and evolution of the Scientific Method. Hypothesis followed by experiments has been a mainstay, even a dogmatic paradigm in Science. However, with today's computing...
opinion by Erik Larson | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 124 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Charles Darwin created a big controversy with his evolutionary theory and powerful church leaders castigated him. Now after 126 long years Church of England has realised their mistake and agreed to issue an an apology. Darwin in his theory had said that man descended from the...
NIST WTC 7 report does not address evidence of melted steel documented by FEMA"by Tony Szamboti, M.E. The NIST WTC 7 report does not attempt to explain the “severe high-temperature corrosion attack” on apparently the only piece of WTC 7 steel which was tested, as...
The rumours have been going about for years now but if this is true, the global health implications could be diasterous. I am quite curious as to how the industry will deal with the news. - The...
created by angryindian | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 698 views | 0 recommendations | 4 comments
Science fiction enthusiasts, geeks, nerds, and dweebs renounce your bullies and rejoice in the everlasting light that is SCIENCE! For this week in time marks the 50-year anniversary of one of the weirdest ideas to...
created by ScienceDave | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 517 views | 17 recommendations | 4 comments
"#1 Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media
Sources:
Buzzflash.com, July 18, 2005
Title: “Web of Deceit: How Internet Freedom Got the Federal Ax, and Why Corporate News Censored the Story”
Author: Elliot D....
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Life on Earth may have announced its arrival billions of years ago with a whistle and a thump, according to planetary scientists.Experiments by an international team of researchers back a controversial theory that...
created by evomech | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 410 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Online open access/free first edition of Phillip E. Johnson's book 'Darwin on Trial' (2nd Edition: Amazon UK | US)Video: Watch (RealPlayer) Phillip Johnson's Address given at the University of California, Irvine, 1992 (running time 90 minutes approx) in which he discusses...
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"The small world phenomenon (also known as the small world effect) is the hypothesis that everyone in the world can be reached through a short chain of social acquaintances. The concept gave rise to the famous phrase six degrees of separation after a 1967 small world...
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According to New York Daily News, Starbucks is making changes to its menu. The coffee giant got 12 percent of its $4 billion in sales through food last year, mostly with cold items like cookies, muffins and...
created by mtippett | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 16562 views | 4 recommendations | 5 comments