"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...
Probably my favorite pop science series in the last few years is "Through the Wormhole" narrated by Morgan Freeman which examines the latest scientific theories and boldly relates them to questions of religion and spirituality.
One of my favorite segments in the series...
First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics.
~Sarah Zettel
This month the National Geographic Channel(NGC) debuted a...
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,...
Another effect of Global Warming is Climate Change. Climate is defined as the set trends in weather patterns in an area over a long period of time. The increasing average surface temperature caused by global warming will have a ripple effect throughout this entire system, changing weather patterns drastically.
After a frustrating day of watching Republican ‘termites’ boring incessantly into the heart-wood of America, I amuse myself by chasing our country’s national symbol and asking if I can take their photograph.
It wasn’t too long ago that these amazing...
From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.
~Tom Hanks(as Jim Lovell in the movie Ap0llo 13)
Almost 42 years ago, man accomplished something previously...
Our next contestant is 99942 Apophis. At half a mile wide, it could definitely do some serious damage no matter where it hit. the date for impact is April 2036
Everybody knows that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, but did you know that water vapour is a greenhouse gas? Surprised? Well, so was I.
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