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So Stephen Hawking doesn't believe in Heaven.  This is apparently a big deal.   It's not that he is wrong, he is most likely right, though the nature of faith is belief in defiance of any evidence so that doesn't matter, the important question i ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 18 2011 - 12:26pm - 0 attachments

... here in France.” The new island has stunned scientists because although it is only 18 months old it is already the ...

Article - Helen Barratt - Aug 15 2010 - 1:50pm - 0 attachments

How many beans make five? 6.25 Caveat: the above answer is only a ballpark statistical assumption. In many jurisdictions there are statutory requirements relating to the sale of goods.  Of relevance to this discussion are the laws regard ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 23 2011 - 12:08pm - 0 attachments

With all the fuss surrounding whether the l'Aquila earthquake should have been predicted, the point is often missed that it didn't need to be.  As the recent Christchurch earthquake has shown, a city can survive relatively unscathed without an ac ...

Article - Gareth Fabbro - Mar 24 2011 - 3:10pm - 0 attachments

... ________STUNNED SILENCE_______ Mom is the first to start giggling. Dad is still ...

Article - Akshit Kumar - Feb 7 2011 - 4:57pm - 0 attachments

... Oceanographic Institution, said initial laboratory results stunned him. "I thought there was something very wrong, that the samples were ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 21 2007 - 7:28am - 0 attachments

I understand we are not the mass market but is there any piece of technology you're going to get educated on by walking into a brick and mortar retail store?    If you look on the Internet to get questions answered first, like which you might ...

Cool Link - Hank Campbell - Mar 7 2011 - 4:56pm - 0 attachments

I have recently watched Jill Bolte Taylor's interview at TED . Taylor is a neoroanatomist who specializes in the post-mortem examination of the human brain. In 1996 she experienced a stroke and was able to keep lucid enough for long enough to be able t ...

Blog Post - Richard Mankiewicz - Feb 27 2010 - 5:54am - 0 attachments

Arctic Ice November 2010 Return to previous Arctic conditions is unlikely Record temperatures across Canadian Arctic and Greenland, a reduced summer sea ice cover, record snow cover decreases and links to some Northern Hemisp ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Oct 29 2010 - 9:19pm - 0 attachments

One of my son’s favorite before-bed books is a Bert and Ernie number called “Bert’s Hall of Great Inventions.” ( http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Bert%27s_Hall_of_Great_Inventions ) On each page poor Bert exalts in another human invention, only to be answer ...

Article - Jenny Morber - Oct 29 2010 - 10:40am - 0 attachments