- Io: Jupiter's Moon Is The Only Other Place In The Solar System With Volcanic Lava Eruptions
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... first noted on Io in 1979, and subsequent studies by the Galileo spacecraft, which first flew by Io in 1996, and ground-based telescopes ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 4 2014 - 2:39pm - 0 attachments
- Many Species Or One?
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... and wide-ranging too: out of 12 chapters, only one on Galileo and one on Darwin. The particular aspect that I am writing about now ...
Article - Robert H Olley - Jul 29 2014 - 5:12pm - 0 attachments
- Self Quote Of The Week: Why You Can't Weigh Quarks Directly
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In the process of revising a chapter of my book, I found a clip I would like to share here, as it contains an analogy I cooked up and which I find nice enough to be proud of. Well, two analogies, as you'll soon find out; here I am speaking of the cat we ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 11 2014 - 8:39am - 0 attachments
- Manslaughter Sentence For Scientists Who Misinformed Public On Deadly Aquila Quake
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... of naive scientism love to compare to the trial of Galileo. Galileo is the Italian scientist who was tried as a heretic in 1633 for his ...
Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jul 7 2014 - 1:28am - 0 attachments
- Paper Links Poor Physical Health And Saving For Retirement
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... Timothy Gubler. Of course, the argument is academic. Galileo once declared that, despite what sailors and the natural world knows, ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 1 2014 - 4:03pm - 0 attachments
- Neil Tyson And The Value Of Philosophy
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... of quantum mechanics. Physics became independent with Galileo and Newton (so much so that the latter actually inspired David Hume and ...
Article - Massimo Pigliucci - May 17 2014 - 9:20am - 0 attachments
- Postmodernism Is Dead - Is Psychology Next?
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... have long been guilty of cutting messy corners - Galileo did it, perhaps Mendel did it. But psychology, especially fields like ...
Cool Link - Hank Campbell - Apr 29 2014 - 11:04am - 0 attachments
- Why Cosmos's ratings don't matter.
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This is a TV show which will be more appreciated in ten to twenty years than it is now. The nation may not be as ready as we would like to hear this content from any host much less one like Dr. Niel D. Tyson. "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" has settl ...
Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Apr 13 2014 - 11:26pm - 0 attachments
- Rescinded: Upgrading Newton's Universal Gravity Law using Actions
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I have decided to rescind this model because it is not logically consistent, the great gap was between the field equation and equations of motion. I completely accept that scalar gravity models as they appear in the literature are inconsis ...
Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Mar 26 2014 - 11:54am - 0 attachments
- Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey - The Review
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... the Sun, not because he had perceived anything radical. Galileo rightly dismissed most of Bruno's teachings as philosophical ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Mar 10 2014 - 2:12pm - 0 attachments