A scientist and

a, well, a revolutionary thinker, I guess.

The Science Delusion

"Steve Marshall talks to Rupert Sheldrake about dogma and delusion in contemporary science"

Scientists blinded by science?

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Another

great beginning image for the article. This time photographic work.

Dusting Off GOD

"A new science of religion says God has gotten a bad rap."

Hmmmmm... I guess the study of religion can be considered as much a science as psychology or other 'social sciences'...

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Here's one of those

modern 'big questions'...

Does Contemporary Neuroscience Support or Challenge the Reality of Free Will?

Great header graphic for this article. I made that decision freely, of my own free will...

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Now,

this is interesting!

How tiny insects survive the rain

Really! It is interesting. It's an answer to a question I've actually asked myself in the past (in the case of bothersome mosquitoes, coincidentally) hoping that the answer would be slightly different...

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News we need

Falling stout bubbles explained

(Sorry about the picture illustration - it isn't stout, it's lager. It's still beer. It's what I have. I can't illustrate everything exactly...)

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Scientists are usually more careful...

...so this just shows how simple it would be for things to get moved around to where they shouldn't be. And how they already have been.

Warning over deep-ocean stowaways

Of course, the real risk is once commerce gets into it and people start doing 'recreational' dives in vessels like this (don't laugh - civilians have paid go go into space already). Once free enterprise gets into it anything that costs more money will be dropped, so don't expect things to get checked as well. Their only concern will be the pocketbook...

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Reason for hope?

Testing a Drug That May Stop Alzheimer’s Before It Starts

We can live in hope that this will be beneficial, but, given that Alzheimer's is really only able to be definitely diagnosed post-mortem, will we know for certain? And then how will we know who may possibly develop Alzheimers? Will evenyone take this drug then? And then what about long term effects if it doesn initially turn out to be beneficial? And then... and then... and then...

I think some of the Science Fiction authors who spell doom for our race may be on the correct track. Just my cynical, negative nature speaking out...

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And for all

you conspiracy theorists and ufologists out there, perhaps the Moonians will take the opportunity to try to send super-powerful moon-rays our way? Who knows?

Super Moon to arrive Saturday night

Oh, those Moonians! They're such Moonsters!

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And God said...

"Oh, it's just those humans again. I'll never figure out why I decided to create them in the first place. I must have had an off day. They hardly ever listen to me. They question everything. Most don't even belive in me anymore. Now dogs, there's a success! No better creature in all My creation than a dog. Loyal, trustworthy, loving, brave - just kind of what I was hoping from humans."

Tracking Creation in Glen Rose

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Heh. Interesting...

The Egely Wheel: Vital energy measurement for the masses


With a conclusion with which I completely agree.

Sorry, that's just the way I am...

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Despite the source of this report

who doesn't feel just a little bit less secure because of it?

Lab-Created Bird Flu Virus Poses Massive Threat

'The best laid schemes of mice and men...' and all that. It sure makes me wonder what the '...gang aft agley' part of this will ultimately be...

"Say, Bill. Let's create an easily transmitted, airborne, unstoppable and incurable deadly virus that is easily spread and may accidentally get into the wild, for the sake of science. Just because we can. What could possible go wrong?"

You heard it here first. (And perhaps last?)

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These are fascinating

The Stone Balls of Costa Rica: Mystery spheres as lawn ornaments

What powers, or what people, created these? Because most are moved from their original locations any chance of a historical or locational element is lost. Another mystery...

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We all missed this yesterday

because it wasn't visible with the unaided eye.

Huge Asteroid 2005 YU55 Zips by Earth in Rare Close Flyby

In astronomical terms, 324,600 kilometers is a near miss...

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Fascinating

Iceman Autopsy

Note that he was murdered, or died in a fight, war or something of that nature. Why am I not surprised? The oldest known human remains are of someone who died violently at the hands of another. Is there any hope for us?

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It didn't simulate the stress

of being millions of miles from home, but it would still be an overwhelming experience to do for so long!

Simulated Mars mission 'lands' back on Earth

"Six men locked away in steel tubes for a year-and-a-half to simulate a mission to Mars have emerged from isolation."

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This is interesting

Never before, never after...

Rider on the Storm

This is many years ago now, but it doesn't make it any less fantastic.

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This is interesting

US, Swedish researchers crack 250-year-old cipher

If this could be used on some of the other 'undecipherable' codes like the Voynich Manuscript it would be wonderful to finally be able to read them in plain text...

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This is something

that SWMBO is very interested in (being an artist and scientist and all) and which I must admit a certain interest in as well...

Titanium Art: The colorful process of anodization

SWMBO has a nice piece of titanium that has been treated in this way. It's the raw material, and not metal that has been turned into an object, and it's really beautiful!

A company called Kershaw, a knife branch of a Japanese company called Kai (which makes some really high-end kitchen knives that SWMBO has and which she just loves!) makes a knife called the Leek (in a line named after aromatic plants - leek, chive, scallion, designed by a fellow named Ken Onion. Get it? Ha, ha.) that I have longed wished for, but given the whole idea that knives are to be used, and abrasion wears the coating off, it has never made much sense to me to get one. It doesn't seem very practical to me...

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Alternate reality?

Or a true history?

The Day the Earth Stood Still: Galileo and the secrets of Hermeticism

Myth or reality?

Whenever I read an article from a magazine like this (and I do love this magazine) I'm reminded of the book The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail whose arguments went something like this:

Suppose that Jesus didn't die on the cross. It's possible.
Suppose then that Jesus then took Mary Magdalene to France. It's also possible.
Then suppose they had children and those children were the beginning of the the lineage that should currently rule France. It's possible.
Having proven that...

Of course their argument was much denser and more detailed than this little thing, but that's what it came down to. Because we can state a supposition that supposition becomes its own proof. I laughed and laughed... (I'm not saying that that's the situation with this article, it's something that I think of often when reading things written by those who investigate the kinds of things this magazine devotes itself to. Everyone has to decide for themselves.)

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It's hard to believe

Scientists on trial: At fault?

"In 2009, an earthquake devastated the Italian city of L'Aquila and killed more than 300 people. Now, scientists are on trial for manslaughter."

Will scientists the world over be held responsible for all the effects of global warming? I'm sure that various lawyers are already looking at the possibility...

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