| The moon occults Venus this evening! 28 minutes ago by dorigo A very nice conjunction between bright objects in the sky tonight: at 17.20 the crescent moon will occult Venus, while passing very close to Jupiter. Do not miss the event if you at all can, even a pair of binoculars will provide a lot of detail. Unfortunately, northern Italy is under clouds… The pi ... A Quantum Diaries Survivor - dorigo.wordpress.com · Rank: 3,456 ·  143 references |
| Nature finds its balance 52 minutes ago by Terry O'Neill From today's Globe & Mail: The Norwegian Polar Institute's Kit Kovacs estimates warming water and accompanying biochemical processes will increase the sea's productivity by 20 to 30 per cent - and that means more fish still. Already, herring, mackerel and Arctic cod are swimming north as waters warm ... The Shotgun - westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun · Rank: 11,963 · 181 references |
| Epistemic Consequences of Totalitarian Democracy - The Abuse of ... 53 minutes ago by Georg Thomas In a political order of the type dominant in the West, to gain unrestricted power you need to secure (the appearance of) democratic legitimacy. Once you have the approval of the majority of the electorate, awesome power is at your disposal. After all, you represent the people, and according to the t ... RedStateEclectic - redstateeclectic.typepad.com/redstate_commentary · Rank: 178,241 · 36 references |
| Pentagon hires British scientist to help build "ethical" robot soldiers 53 minutes ago by Michele McGinty Oh.My.Heck! Do they not realize that it's robots' "ethics" that lead to them trying to eliminate the source of the world's problems: man. In all of the robot-takes-over-world type movies that is the issue, I, Robot, Eagle Eye, and The... Reformed Chicks Blabbing - blog.beliefnet.com/reformedchicksblabbing · Rank: 9,179 · 77 references |
| Person of the Week 55 minutes ago by Kemo D. Arthur Caplan Caplan has sorted through the ethical traps of science for the United Nations, the National Institutes of Health, the president of the United States , and the Olympics and has written or edited more than 30 books and 500 articles on ethics in biomedicine. His tireless work translating ... KEMO'S JOURNAL - kemo-d7.livejournal.com · 6 references |
| Under construction: the future 55 minutes ago by nom de guerre Leaning from nano scale construction and how it deals w/ efficiency. If the hydrogen economy is ever going to become reality, we will need a way to store the stuff without having to compress it to dangerously high pressures. The gas could then be fed to fuel cells to power the phones, laptops and au ... core.form-ula - core.form-ula.com · Rank: 58,242 · 41 references |
| What’s in Store for Education Under President-Elect Obama? 1 hour ago by aschlag9 The NSTA recently published a report detailing what President-elect BarackObama will bring to education, listing, “expanded federal preschool programs, scholarships to college students and to professionals from other fields who promise to pursue careers in teaching, more funding for charter schools, ... The STEM Blog - raccems.wordpress.com |
| Space, Time, Matter 1 hour ago by admin Dover Publications | ISBN 0486602672 | 1952-06-01 | DJVU |330 pages |2.9 MB”A classic of physics … the first systematic presentation of Einstein’s theory of relativity.”鈥擝ritish Journal for Philosophy and Science. Long one of the standard texts in the field, this excellent introduction probes deeply ... Free eBook Digger - ebookdigger.com |
| Abraham 1 hour ago by vittidk The century of Abraham - the hundred years from his birth to the birth of his son and successor Isaac - was thus the century that witnessed the rise and fall of the Third Dynasty of Ur….. In spite of numerous studies concerning Abraham , the fact remains that all we really know about him is what we ... The Truth Is Out There - xfilex.wordpress.com |
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