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- Mon Dec 17, 2007 1:50 am
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: A Submarine for Europa
- Replies: 2
- Views: 41973
Return To Europa: A Closer Look Is Possible December 13, 2007 Jupiter’s moon Europa is just as far away as ever, but new research is bringing scientists closer to being able to explore its tantalizing ice-covered ocean and determine its potential for harboring life. “We’ve learned a lot about Europa...
- Mon Dec 17, 2007 1:48 am
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Creationism, Intelligent Design, and Evolution
- Replies: 33
- Views: 247180
My article on how science and faith have been getting rather
mixed up as of late, to no one's benefit:
http://tompkinsweekly.com/images/jpgs/Page_10.jpg
mixed up as of late, to no one's benefit:
http://tompkinsweekly.com/images/jpgs/Page_10.jpg
- Sat Dec 15, 2007 12:49 pm
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Creationism, Intelligent Design, and Evolution
- Replies: 33
- Views: 247180
Iowa Citizens for Science Press Release on Gonzalez Case By Wesley Elsberry http://www.talkreason.org/articles/?http://pandasthumb.org/archives/2007/12/iowa-citizens-f-1.html Dr. Elsberry discusses the case of Iowa State University denying tenure to an ID advocate, astronomer G. Gonzalez. (Off-site ...
- Fri Dec 07, 2007 11:55 pm
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Creationism, Intelligent Design, and Evolution
- Replies: 33
- Views: 247180
Romania removes theory of evolution from school curriculum Romania’s withdrawal of the theory of evolution from the school curriculum could be evidence of a growing conservative tendency in teaching Evolution has been removed from the schools curriculum in a move, which pressure groups argue distort...
- Fri Dec 07, 2007 11:54 pm
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Creationism, Intelligent Design, and Evolution
- Replies: 33
- Views: 247180
Biologist fired for beliefs, suit says Woods Hole states creationist stance at odds with work By Beth Daley Globe Staff / December 7, 2007 The battle between science and creationism has reached the prestigious Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where a former researcher is claiming he was fired b...
- Wed Nov 28, 2007 1:25 am
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Doomsday Seed Vault
- Replies: 15
- Views: 131910
'Doomsday Vault’ Prepares to Open One of the things I like about Norway is that the government there requires at least one percent of public building budgets be devoted to artwork. Thus the plan for the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which is designed as a hedge against planetary catastrophe. At the Sp...
- Mon Nov 12, 2007 12:19 am
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Light Pollution
- Replies: 7
- Views: 74019
Two recent articles on light pollution.
Here:
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/cities-dim ... 1609990001
and here (this one has some excellent images with it):
http://planetary.org/explore/topics/pla ... 71025.html
Here:
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/cities-dim ... 1609990001
and here (this one has some excellent images with it):
http://planetary.org/explore/topics/pla ... 71025.html
- Mon Nov 12, 2007 12:09 am
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Universals of language
- Replies: 10
- Views: 94222
Australian Scientists Begin to Crack Whale Code Cetaceans are known to be among the most clever and intelligent of all mammals. They have brains that are roughly the same size as humans or larger, which are similarly or superiorly complex (although differently evolved in structure). This has led som...
- Sun Sep 09, 2007 2:17 pm
- Forum: Literature and Cinema
- Topic: Rendezvous with Rama
- Replies: 3
- Views: 43917
If you are referring to Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey, in the 1968 novel he chose Saturn's moon Iapetus as the place of TMA-2, which was uncanny because he predicted a big bulls eye pattern right on the terminator of its light and dark hemisphere - and there is! BTW, Cassini is making a really clos...
- Sun Sep 09, 2007 12:13 pm
- Forum: Literature and Cinema
- Topic: Rendezvous with Rama
- Replies: 3
- Views: 43917
Rendezvous with Rama
Since at least 2000, a film version of Arthur C. Clarke's SF classic Rendezvous with Rama has been promised by Morgan Freeman. While we wait, here is a clip made by film student Aaron Ross: http://discoveryenterprise.blogspot.com/2007/09/rendezvous-with-rama.html This story is known for describing a...
- Sat Sep 08, 2007 6:22 pm
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Light Pollution
- Replies: 7
- Views: 74019
Light Pollution
In the August 20, 2007 New Yorker magazine online: "The Dark Side: Making War on Light Pollution" by David Owen "In 1610, Galileo Galilei published a small book describing astronomical observations that he had made of the skies above Padua. His homemade telescopes had less magnifying ...
- Sat Sep 08, 2007 6:14 pm
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Sky in Google Earth
- Replies: 0
- Views: 57484
Sky in Google Earth
Sky in Google Earth: The Next Frontier in Astronomical Data Discovery and Visualization Authors: Ryan Scranton, Andrew Connolly, Simon Krughoff, Jeremy Brewer, Alberto Conti, Carol Christian, Craig Sosin, Greg Coombe, Paul Heckbert (Submitted on 5 Sep 2007) Abstract: Astronomy began as a visual scie...
- Sat Sep 08, 2007 6:09 pm
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: A Submarine for Europa
- Replies: 2
- Views: 41973
A Submarine for Europa
A Submarine for Europa Many planetary scientists believe that Jupiter’s moon Europa is our solar system’s best contender to share Earth’s distinction of harboring life. Evidence gathered by the Voyager and Galileo spacecrafts suggests Europa contains a deep, possibly warm ocean of salty water under ...
- Sat Sep 08, 2007 6:04 pm
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Doomsday Seed Vault
- Replies: 15
- Views: 131910
'The World Without Us'
By ALAN WEISMAN
Reviewed by JENNIFER SCHUESSLER
What would happen if Earth's most invasive species -- humans
-- were wiped out?
Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/books ... 8bu&emc=bu
By ALAN WEISMAN
Reviewed by JENNIFER SCHUESSLER
What would happen if Earth's most invasive species -- humans
-- were wiped out?
Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/books ... 8bu&emc=bu
- Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:51 pm
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Universals of language
- Replies: 10
- Views: 94222
'The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language'
By CHRISTINE KENNEALLY
Reviewed by EMILY EAKIN
Is there a scientific explanation for the human ability to
use language?
Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/books ... 8bu&emc=bu
By CHRISTINE KENNEALLY
Reviewed by EMILY EAKIN
Is there a scientific explanation for the human ability to
use language?
Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/books ... 8bu&emc=bu