Notable articles and snippets from last week abound… But who will build the roads? The free market, as it has for a very long time. Scientists have finally decoded the physics behind earphone and other ropy tangles. Absolute truth in reality versus relative experience as reality – Einstein meets Tagore. Firefighters don’t actually fight fires…
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Even if I did. One study does not a trend make… I have long wondered why an increase by a few degrees would not increase biodiversity around the world, based on the fact that the tropics have a far higher diversity and concentration of plants and animals than the arctics. If global warming is true…
DetailsOn the origin of life… The Miller–Urey experiment (or Urey–Miller experiment) was an experiment that simulated the conditions thought at the time to be present on the early Earth, and tested for the occurrence of chemical origins of life. Specifically, the experiment tested Alexander Oparin’s and J. B. S. Haldane’s hypothesis that conditions on the…
DetailsThe Coolidge Effect explains cheating, in a way… In biology and psychology, the Coolidge effect is a phenomenon seen in mammalian species whereby males (and to a lesser extent females) exhibit renewed sexual interest if introduced to new receptive sexual partners,[1][2][3][4] even after refusing sex from prior but still available sexual partners. . . .…
DetailsThough I already posted your lecture this week, there is a documentary you MUST see, this one about your health and diet. Enjoy:
Eat, Fast and Live Longer – Horizon from Steve Hartman on Vimeo.
See also: Fat America, the stats.
Things from all over! How far have our leaders moved down the path of apathy to evil? Robert Gibbs exemplifies the carelessness with which the Obama team murders civilian children if they have a bad father. This is something most of us already know (though few condemn), since the practice of drone-bombing funerals and weddings…
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