science + religion today
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Feb 19, 2010
What Texas Thinks of Evolution
According to a poll conducted by the University of Texas and The Texas Tribune, 30 percent of people in the state believe that humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time, and more than half—51 percent—don’t believe that “human beings, as we know them today, developed […]
he Appendix: Useful and in Fact Promising
LiveScience.com
Charles Q. Choi
Special to LiveScience
Mon Aug 24, 10:30 am ET
The body’s appendix has long been thought of as nothing more than a worthless evolutionary artifact, good for nothing save a potentially lethal case of inflammation.
Now researchers suggest the appendix is a lot more than a useless remnant. Not only […]
By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 1:34 AM on 22nd June 2009
Dinosaurs
may not have been as monstrously big as scientists and Hollywood film directors would have us believe.
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I have included the Daily Mail’s headline because its inventiveness is worth a […]
Ocean currents can power the world, say scientists
A revolutionary device that can harness energy from slow-moving rivers and ocean currents could provide enough power for the entire world, scientists claim.
By Jasper Copping
Last Updated: 2:39PM GMT 29 Nov 2008
Ocean currents can power the world, say scientists. Existing technologies require an average current of five or six […]
“It’s ludicrous to have people who do not have a scientific background, who are not trained and skilled in the ways of science, make decisions that involve resources, that involve facilities in the scientific infrastructure,” said James McCarthy, a Harvard University oceanographer who is president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. “You’d […]
NOVEMBER 7, 2008
A Doctor, a Mutation and a Potential Cure for AIDS
A Bone Marrow Transplant to Treat a Leukemia Patient Also Gives Him Virus-Resistant Cells; Many Thanks, Sample 61
By MARK SCHOOFS
The startling case of an AIDS patient who underwent a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia is stirring new hope that gene-therapy strategies on the […]
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Maximilien Brice / CERN
Super-smasher targets a massive mysteryThe world’s largest science experiment will re-create big-bang energies on the smallest scale, as part of a multibillion-dollar effort to solve the biggest puzzle in physics.(MSNBC.com)
Image: (Man with sledgehammer) entertheiphone.com
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August 23, 2008
New York Times
Op-Ed Columnist
Digging Ourselves a Black Hole
By GAIL COLLINS
Exciting times coming up, people. Democratic convention! Republican convention! And then, on Sept. 10, the start-up of the Large Hadron Collider!
The Large Hadron, you may remember, is the 17-mile-long particle accelerator being built near Geneva. Once it’s up and running, its designers believe it […]
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(Kimberly White/Reuters)
First, don’t these guys know their country was just at war?
Second, don’t they realize that wearing hats which state:
(Kimberly White/Reuters)
“Best Trackers In The World
Bigfoottracker.com”
may leave more than a few people skeptical.
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Bigfoot stored in a 1955 Amana Sasquatch Ice King Deep Freeze
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By MALIA WOLLAN, Associated Press Writer
August 15, 2008
PALO ALTO, Calif. - Bigfoot […]
$5.8 million buys a lot of CD cleaner.
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Story.
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