It is vital for engineers to understand and get a feel of what permeability, and…
Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak is one of my favourite gadgets from the entire…
150 years ago a Russian chemist names Dimitri Mendeleev formulated a table of chemical…
Although I would like to blame smoking for all of the world’s medical ills, there are some conditions where there is no…
Are you left-handed, a smoker, and short-sighted? What if I told you that the development of these…
Have you ever heard of those magic cells we have in our bodies? Okay, wait. I’m sorry, that was vague. Let’s rephrase that.
In the beginning was…..
Yes, I have, I’ve “microdosed” and it’s kind of comparing apples to oranges in terms of functionality. For all the fun I’ve had on mushrooms, predictable dosing is near-impossible, a cap the size of a dime can be way more powerful than a cap the size of my fist, so there’s really no telling how much you’re getting besides a hunch that may or may not…
Today was a peaceful sunny spring day everything seemed to be going perfect until the idea of equilibrium came to be the topic of conversation over dinner with some friends. How did…
Hi Robert:
Thanks for reading. That is a GREAT question!
The so-called “shadow” of a black hole is the dark area which marks out the event horizon, the boundary from which light cannot escape. Surrounding that is the accretion disk, a region with high-energy emissions eminating from material as it…
By Wayne Saalman
from http://www.rationaloptimist.wordpress.com
The left derides the right for science denialism, on evolution and climate change. But many on the left have their own science blind spots, on GM…
This past week during Material Science Lab, we made use of an electron microscope. Getting there was an interesting story in and of itself. For those not familiar with the Temple University, the SERC, or the Engineering…
Science is only factual until new insights are gained that refute it. So in reality, it might never be factual but it can be quasi factual.
At least in the area of climate, there has never been so much new scientific inquiry. The CO2 model is fast becoming “one of”. The future will be much more interesting.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen
A conversation with a theology and Christian theological history student prompted this one.
According to Pew Research, as many of you well know but many or most Canadians may not accept or know, the vast majority of experts in the…
You might enjoy reading about Rachel Armstrong who was one of the inspirations for my…
Inspired by the recent wacky weather, Martin Fone — author of 50 Curious Questions — turns his gaze to what is undoubtedly the strangest form of precipitation: hail.
I have to disagree here. Females are the selectors in humans, for the most part. While there are species where females are the selectors, that’s not the case in humans. It seems to be one of the reasons why there’s greater intrasex variability in male humans [1].
The Event Horizon Telescope project will be holding a press conference next week on the 10th where it seems they will reveal the first real image of the event horizon of a black hole. The EHT is a MASSIVE array of radio observatories/telescope…
