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Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
October 22nd, 2017 - 12:51 am § in Science
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: We Were There: Earliest Homo sapiens found in Morocco
300,000 year old remains of 5 people, including an 8 year old child found in a cave in Morocco We have known for several years that Homo sapiens, modern humans, migrated from Africa into the adjacent areas of Asia, the areas we now call the “Middle East.” In the Middle East they mixe[...]
What kind of fish is that?
The Capybara .. the Vatican’s fish. As reported in Scientific American, October, 1994: Lots of capybara meat is/was eaten by Colombians and Venezuelans who appealed to the Vatican during the 16th century in order to be allowed to eat capybaras during Lent. The pope back then declared the capyb[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: When logic undermines belief
Major Threat to Religion? Clergy People Coming Out as Atheists by Greta Christina on AlterNet What happens when a clergy person — a minister, a priest, a rabbi, an imam — realizes he doesn’t believe in God? And what happens when he says it out loud? What happens when they fi[...]
July 11th, 2017 - 2:46 pm § in Science
The Earth in 1893
And some people’s knowledge of science hasn’t changed much since then. The blurb reads: “MAP OF THE SQUARE AND STATIONARY EARTH. BY PROF. ORLANDO FERGUSON, HOT SPRINGS, SOUTH DAKOTA. Four Hundred Passages in the Bible that Condemns the Globe Theory, or the Flying Earth, and None Su[...]
July 7th, 2017 - 5:39 pm § in Science
Path of the Aug. 21 solar eclipse
The area between pink lines is where total eclipse will be visible. [...]
The For Profit Monopoly That Dominates Science
An industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google Abstracted from an article by Stephen Buranyi in the Guardian ….. Scientists create work under their own direction – funded largely by governments – and give it to publishers for free ….. it is as if the New Yorke[...]
June 20th, 2017 - 10:42 am § in Donald Trump, Politics, Schools & Colleges, Science, The Ave Scene, UW
Major Threat To UW and Hutch By Trump
The Trump administration wants to make massive cuts in research while claiming to spend MORE money on science. The TRUMP Government, led by The Secretary of HHS and the Director of the OMB, have previously proposed draconian cuts to the NIH budget. Now we know the vehicle for the cuts .. an att[...]
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