Professor Brian Cox was talking on his show aired tonight about the Human Universe, Why we are here and the origins of humanity and the universe, all in fascinating episode. I will attempt to capture some of the
Spoiler alert: If you were born in 1987, the…
You may recall Smell-O-Vision from jokes on shows like Futurama and Family Matters. The idea is…
Source of Concern
For Vancouver AirBnB Hosts — Understanding the data
With the low Canadian dollar, beautiful scenery, and world-class status, Vancouver is increasingly…
by Ryan Whitwam
The unlikely connections between Dan Brown’s film Inferno, gain of function…
Stephen Hawking quotes: The astrophysicist said that the future of humanity in the long term was to leave the Earth
Who is Stephen Hawking? Wrong question — everyone knows him. The physicist Stephen Hawking, whom his colleagues considered…
Yayoi Kusama and the Idea of an Infinite Universe
By Marcus Du Sautoy (mathematician, professor, writer and broadcaster)
Does infinity physically exist anywhere in the universe? The answer is that we don’t know. But at Victoria Miro’s gallery in Wharf Street you can almost get to infinity by stepping…
Light from distant stars observed from earth is offset when passing an in-between star…
“The wider problem, beyond who should have received the prize and who should not, is that the Nobels reward individuals — three at most, for each of the scientific prizes, in any given year. And modern science, as Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus write…
There is a sense in which materialism is the religion of our time
I think what makes materialist atheists, especially those influenced by the New Atheism of Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris and Dennett, so hard to reach on this point is that they have come to both atheism and the scientific worldview in probably the only time in…
When humans invented writing, language, and math, we became the first known species to technologically progress by building upon the past discoveries, inventions, and breakthroughs once we learned how to store that information for…
The Pot Papers :
#51 “Fruit fLIES : a Biblical Cancer Cause
Fructose is cancer’s main cause.
What happens on the small cellular scale happens also at large. Imagine in your mind:
Wow! I have never thought this much about organic food before. It makes sense though, that it wouldn’t be any healthier than conventionally farmed food. When I go to the store I typically look for the cheapest fruits and veggies, but I never considered the fact that they could be cheaper because they were grown with help from chemicals. My reasoning…
“Your behavior depends on how your brain fires”
Apart from your genetic makeup,,, your behavior also depends on the chemicals that your brain fires at the particular time… Even interesting is your brain fires accordingly to the person, place and circumstances… Do you ever wonder sometimes on seeing a person who you never…
I have just written a piece on the subject, using a simple experiment to illustrate confirmation bias to a 17-year-old. It worked beautifully — he understood everything and called it “a lesson for life.”
Mitochondria-
Working hours upon hours and no one even knows who I am. Well hello, my name is Mito. Its short for Mitochondria. Have you ever felt not needed but you know you are needed? Well that is my day to day routine. I wake up as a pill shaped cell, and start pumping everyone up. It’s hard to be me because everyone…
We were at @frontlines.to to engage the youths in STEM. We explained the chemistry behind the “making of ice cream: emulsion, foam and the effect of salt on ice.” Then, the youths…
