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How the Universe made the elements and atoms that make up you and me, and everything else on Earth. “Things are the way they are because they were the way they […]
Where the first atoms in the Universe — the progenitors of all the normal matter that makes up everything we know — came from. “I see a lot of new faces. But, you know the […]
Forensic analysis has revived the features of a prehistoric skull buried near the iconic Stonehenge monument.
Last fall, John Cisna — a science teacher from Des Moines, Iowa — ate nothing but McDonald’s for 90 days and wound up losing 37 pounds! Hold the mustard! How the heck can that be right?
BEIJING – Chinese universities are plagued with corruption. Last November, the clique around Cai Rongsheng at Renmin University got busted. The 48-years old ‘Chief of the Student Admissions Office’ tried […]
A sunset captured in Switzerland featured a sunspot so large it was visible to the naked eye.
Memories triggered by smell are more emotional than those triggered by sounds, pictures or words
Baggy pants. A cane. A bowler hat. A mustache. These are the unlikely visual ingredients of one of the most important fictional characters of the last century around the world. […]
If you’ve ever been unfortunate enough to sit through the Gameshow “Deal or No Deal”, you might have concluded as Charlie Brooker put it, that the entire show is “actually […]
Positing Jesus Christ as a yogi has become popular over the last two decades. For some, the symbolism is irresistible: loving your neighbors, turning a cheek and other maxims line […]
During the recent cold snap, wind chill has taken some heat, notably from Daniel Engber at Slate, who castigates wind chill as the “weatherman’s favorite alarmist statistic,” serving as the “PR agent” for horrendous weather.
“The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.” – Elvis Presley (born on this date in 1935)
The Merriam-Webster people have named SCIENCE the word of the year. Why? It had “the greatest increase in look-ups” in the online version of their dictionary. This data might be […]
When the nurse footprinted my son at birth, she declared, “his foot almost doesn’t fit in the box” on her special Baby Footprint Form (nurses and doctors like things to fit […]
The dream of overturning Roe v. Wade may yet come to pass for abortion opponents. But as state-level restrictions on the right to abortion continue to mount, the anti-abortion movement is steadily chipping away at the spirit of Roe while it remains on the books.
The Satanic Temple, the monument’s sponsor, says on its website that “Satan stands as the ultimate icon for the selfless revolt against tyranny, free & rational inquiry, and the responsible pursuit of happiness.”
“To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.”
-Nicolas Cage (born on this date in 1964)
‘Tiger Mom’ spurns out another bestseller – a bit racist but true? NEW HAVEN – Social media is currently hyping a soon-to-be published book by America’s notorious ‘Tiger Mom’, Amy […]
The Frankenstein metaphor that opponents of genetically modified food use to promote their fears is more apt than they realize. Yes, the monster is an unnatural life form created […]
Instead of squeezing more cars onto London’s busy streets, planners have proposed a superhighway that could accommodate up to 12,000 cyclists an hour.
It is truly appalling for people who lead cosseted lives, neglecting their sworn duty to defend the US Constitution, to sneer at those who defend it for free, or at great personal cost.
The genomes of tumors can be analyzed, providing “a much better way of deciding what types of treatments to pursue.”
The tactic of “gish gallop” — a rapid-fire listing of supposed weaknesses of evolution — cannot be properly countered in a limited-time format of a debate.
What happens when you shoot boiling water into -41C air?
A beautiful spiral just outside the Big Dipper holds many secrets that can teach us about our own Milky Way! “If I were a flower.. I would be a sunflower.To always […]
Young women today are expected to be wives, mothers, housekeepers, excellent athletes, be entrepreneurial and save the world.
Today’s mission marks the eighth flight of the Falcon 9 and the third flight of the v1.1 configuration and the thirteenth launch overall for SpaceX.
The following is a guest post by Mark Molloy “Sir we know our will is free, and there’s an end on’t.” (Samuel Johnson as quoted by J. Boswell in The Life […]
97 percent of Fortune 500 companies have been hacked (and 3 percent likely have been too and just don’t know it). So how do we close the “Cybersecurity Knowledge Gap”?