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Our Environmental Apathy
This morning on a certain FM radio station was a listener call-in discussion program and the topic was The Environment. During the 10 minutes of the program that I heard 2 callers were put on air and both had basically...
The Spaceship
On the 30th of October this year, I had traveled 5 billion miles through empty space. If I were traveling in a straight line I would have reached 900 million miles away from the very edge of the solar system,...
The bomb waiting to explode
If I told you there is a group of scientists blowing up buses, beheading and murdering innocent mullahs and posting videos of kidnapped creationists on their website you'd think I was mad. Why? Because it is a nearly impossible situation...
Science, God and religion
I don't know whether you've heard this one or not (or whether it's true). When I was a child I was told a story about a nation of mathematicians that god punished for being too good at math. In that...
Virgin Birth
Here's a bit of science trivia that many don't know about. Parthenogenesis or virgin birth describes the growth and development of an embryo or seed without fertilization by a male1. Although it is rare it does exist and occurs in...
Superluminal Travel
Or the ability to move an object faster than the speed of light is, of course, only theory but nevertheless it is interesting theory. Why it interests me, I'll tell you later. Experiments have shown that there are things that...