Unbeknownst to the conservative Congressman, Dr. Ron Paul (Bagger - TX) inserted an arcane addendum that required replacing all elected Republicans (federal, state and local) with the results of some experiments he had been conducting in his suburban Galveston basement.
"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left." - Einstein My morning yesterday was like so many others, riding a crowded train out from suburban Tokyo to neighboring Yokohama...
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. Albert Einstein How much do you know about how your brain works? How much does anyone know? How certain are...
After the Big Bang came the Great Darkness. In indescribable darkness, matter raced away from itself in all directions, pushing space into being as it did so. Darkly, it spun and coalesced, exploded and merged, exploded again, grew heavier,...
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"My own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose." -J.B.S. Haldane, geneticist and evolutionary biologist Let's imagine a world very different from our own. The only thing on this...
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them...
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