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In a closely watched trial, prosecutors who argued that a group of Italian scientists is accountable for not adequately warning residents about the risks of an earthquake in the town of L'Aquila have succeeded.  The Italian scientific community ha ...

Cool Link - Hank Campbell - Oct 22 2012 - 12:04pm - 0 attachments

... and vitalism took an intellectual tail-kicking from Galileo (1610) and Pasteur (1859). Then Darwin made evolution a credible ... to creationism. The actual paradigm shift brought about by Galileo, Pasteur, and Darwin was from the belief system based on vitalism to ...

Article - Randall Mayes - Oct 8 2012 - 9:12am - 0 attachments

Here is a head scratcher; when confronted about the vague, conflicting language in Proposition 37 - even the real name,  the California Right to Know Genetically Modified Food Act, is weird and disjointed - Attorney  James Wheaton, who made ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 27 2012 - 7:43am - 0 attachments

... aren't doing it alone. The Poster Boy is a good example. Galileo is credited with a number of discoveries during the Gosh-Wow-Look! era ... concluded that Jupiter had moons one day later than Galileo.  David Fabricius published a pamphlet several months before ...

Article - David Brin - Oct 1 2012 - 5:28pm - 0 attachments

... than to long searches for non-existing signals. As Galileo Galilei famously put it 400 years ago: "Io stimo piu' il trovar ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 21 2012 - 9:38pm - 0 attachments

... initiated by the greek philosophers and propelled with Galileo and Newton's intuitions, eventually shrinking down into a new religion. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 12 2012 - 1:33pm - 0 attachments

While Americans may be concerned that China or India could take over the high end of science due to sheer numbers of graduates, culturally they are a lot less scientific. Don't think taro cards, astrology,  feng shui and reiki are science?   ...

Cool Link - Hank Campbell - Sep 9 2012 - 1:47pm - 0 attachments

Widely accepted theories of dark matter,  a mysterious invisible substance that can only be detected indirectly by the gravitational force it exerts, expect the solar neighborhood to be filled with the stuff - but it isn't, at least as far as can b ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 7 2012 - 9:13am - 0 attachments

Today, I was met by a science-debunker ( laugh a little, you know you want to. ) He didn't know that I work in the field of biotechnology, or that I am a scientist. I am often met with the, " you're too pretty to have a high IQ ," mentality, so I tend ...

Article - Cher One - Aug 19 2009 - 2:12pm - 0 attachments

Could the big split among anti-science hippies occur over a cute little cat? PETA loves animals.  Greenpeace hates genetic modification and science in general because changes are only 'natural' if high-energy cosmic rays mutate things at random. W ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 6 2012 - 9:20am - 0 attachments