Reporting from the Meet & Greet with Kirk Sorensen, Delft, July 24th 2016
Providing energy and burning nuclear waste, while producing a unique medical isotope
In the January 2017 issue of Nature, the preeminent scientific journal, is an excellent article detailing…
By C. Gita Bosch, PhD
“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.” — Louis Pasteur
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Or, “A brief review of the ebook How to be a modern scientists by Jeff Leek and the open-peer reviews it lead me to read”
by Babu G. Ranganathan*
(B.A. Bible/Biology)
Evolutionary dating (including radiometric dating) is not infallible science, is based on certain built-in assumptions, and has often been proven to be contradictory and inconsistent…
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At first glance, you might think Pantydraco caducus’ scientific name is making some sort of reference to a “pants dragon”…
Photons are exhausted.Tiny, timeless bundles of energy. . . traveling to and fro in a panicked hustle. . . . .to deliver a message from some…
I’ve been struck recently by the power and surprise of unintended consequences.
For example, a recent Slate article digs into flip side of the life-saving potential of automated vehicles: our reliance on car crash deaths for organ donors:
Samuel Butler — EREWHON, OR OVER THE RANGE -1872
Anne would do anything to protect her 12 year old daughter Carla. Even if it meant that they both had to die.
ANY LIFE ON MARS CAME FROM EARTH
A Newsweek article of September 21, 1998, p.12 mentions the high possibility of Earth life on Mars. “We think there’s about 7 million tons of earth soil sitting on Mars”, says scientist and…
The authors showed that attachment anxiety predicts the anthropomorphizing of pets and gadgets. The desire for closeness, fear of abandonment, and hyper-vigilance to social cues, more so than loneliness, predicted the…
TALES OF FISH LEGS AND DINOSAUR FEATHERS
There’s been much misinformation in the media recently about fish having genes for legs and limbs. This is a total misrepresentation. Fish do not and did not have genes for limbs. They have…
By Alison Van Eenennaam | Cooperative Extension Specialist in the field of Animal Genomics and Biotechnology in the Department of Animal Science at University of California, Davis | @BioBeef
NOT DINOSAUR FEATHERS!
There’s a lot of hype out there in the media. Read the interesting Internet article by biologist and creationist Brian Thomas, FEATHERS MISSING FROM ‘FEATHERED DINOSAUR’ DISPLAY.
We live amidst infinity. Ever-expanding, ever-shrinking, could anyone ever know what truly happens in the boundaries of this very reality we live in? Perhaps the better question would be, “how” can we, with our finite selves, comprehend such thing? Or do we simply…
Something has always bothered me about popular and mainstream discussions about artificial intelligence and the future of sentient robotics…
NOT INVENTED BY NATURE
Just because something exists in nature does not mean it originated from Nature. If all the chemicals (i.e. amino acids, etc.) necessary to make a cell were left to themselves, “Mother Nature” would have no…
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Working:
A solenoid valve is an electromechanical controlled valve. The valve features a solenoid, which is an electric coil…
(and no, I don’t even stutter)
Theoretical Physicists open their Conferences now with a little dedicated ‘sing-along’. “ Oh dear what can the Matter be..” which comes from that popular Musical ‘The Lighter Side of Dark Matter’.
& Goals achievement
Scientific activism has had some amazing successes. Scientists have discovered a problem, lobbied for legal changes, and solved the problem. Example: there was an insecticide called DDT that…
In America, muscular dystrophy affects nearly 250,000 people. It occurs when damaged muscle tissue is replaced with fatty, fibrous, bony tissue and loses function. After years’ hard working, scientists have found a…
For people, who have been in constant suffering of chronic knee or a joint pain; stem cells therapy has proven to be a life changer, transforming their dream of living pain free life into a reality…
Ethan Siegel Hi ethan, I have a question regarding the horizon of observable universe. In the artistic depiction, the artist has made the horizon of observable universe a perfect circle. Whats your opinion about that,is it consistent with the reality. If yes that means it is a circle of a constant radius isnt it?
If you are thinking about a kidney transplant, consider the kidney transplant facility you most likely to. You could select where to go. Medicare as well as exclusive PPO insurance coverage cover the majority of the 246 kidney…
