Full article here: (Part I and Part II)
George Bush has just vetoed a bill, approved by both Houses of Congress, which would have allowed federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. Apparently the President’s ethical philosophy places a higher value on American embryos than on Iraqi or Lebanese men, women and children. Don’t misunderstand ‘embryos’, [...]
There are some awesome time-lapsed videos of zebrafish embryo development posted by PZ Myers at Pharyngula.
This one is an annotated video of 18 hours of development time-lapsed to 48 seconds. It shows the embryo grow from about 8-16 cells upto the beginning of a head and tail. Follow the link to Pharyngula for [...]
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Did you know that the same inventor came up with both Freon and leaded gasoline? His name was Thomas Midgley, Jr. and he worked for General Motors in the 1920’s and 30’s. One historian remarked that Midgley “had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in earth history.” At [...]
Deep underground on the Franco-Swiss border, someone will throw a switch next year to start one of the most ambitious experiments in history, probing the secrets of the universe and possibly finding new dimensions.
The Large Hadron Collider - a 27km-long circular particle accelerator at the CERN experimental facility near Geneva, will smash protons [...]
Housed at the Florence Institute and Museum of the History of Science among a collection of medieval scientific instruments is a strange relic. After Galileo Galilei died, his students stole the middle finger off of his corpse and managed to preserve it. Amazingly it still survives today in this collection. It stands [...]
At the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Mississippi, Kelly the dolphin has built up quite a reputation. All the dolphins at the institute are trained to hold onto any litter that falls into their pools until they see a trainer, when they can trade the litter for fish. In this way, the dolphins help [...]
So does this mean I don’t believe in myself?
from the re-Discovery Insitute:
Warning: Gravity is “Only a Theory”
by Ellery Schempp (c)(R)2005
All physics textbooks should include this warning label:
This textbook contains material on Gravity. Universal Gravity is a theory, not a fact, regarding the natural law of attraction. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered.
The Universal Theory of [...]
Joel Hernandez has pointed me towards an interesting article on livescience.com. It says:
When times are tough, women tend naturally to abort a higher percentage of male fetuses. Researchers call it culling, but they don’t know why it occurs.
This much is known: During times of social or economic stress, a woman’s liver tends produces more [...]
