Every year of the calendar, for ages and ages, up to and including this year, there have been religious persons convinced that the end of the world was coming soon. People in numerous religions have held this view. But the end never comes.
It would disclose a high degree of vanity in me...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016
J. H. McKenna, Ph.D.: What is the End of the World ?
Michael Mamas: Another Way Of Knowing
An ancient Seer sits in his cave atop a mountain. From deep within his being where he is one with everything, the subtle impulses underlying all of life flow through him and out his vocal cords.
The ancient Seers awoke to that one Transcendental thing that is the source of everything,...
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Justin Kitch: From Gum Bans to Growth Mindsets: This Week"s Curios
Every day of the year, Curious.com CEO Justin Kitch writes a quirky fact, known as the Daily Curio, intended to tickle the brains of lifelong learners everywhere. This is a weekly digest.
Last week’s Curios covered yawn duration, passing kidney stones at amusement parks, and...
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Oceania: How Humans Populated One of Earth's Most Remote Places
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
Just look at a map of Remote Oceania – the region of the Pacific that contains Hawaii, New Zealand, Samoa, French Polynesia and ...
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Harper Government Hush-Hush.. About Raspberries
CP
OTTAWA – Who knew raspberries were so hush-hush?
The Harper government won’t divulge any details of a proposed new marketing agency for the tangy red fruit.
The Canadian Press recently filed an access-to-information request for a November briefing note...
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Home Plate Collisions May Not Be Baseball Catchers" Biggest Injury Risk
In baseball, violent collisions at home plate seem to be a major issue — so much so that Major League Baseball and the league’s Players Association enacted a rule last year to prevent them. (Rule 7.13 requires catchers to give base runners a clear path to home plate and forbids ...
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Thomas Patrick: Review: The Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Planet of the Apes, released in 1968, was a surprise commercial success that spawned four sequels, one woeful Tim Burton-directed reboot and a couple of TV shows. Its place in film history is already assured, with parodies of the famous final scene of the original found in The Simpsons,...
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How A Mother"s Age Could Affect The Mental Health Of Her Children
Academic studies can be fascinating… and totally confusing. So we decided to strip away all of the scientific jargon and break them down for you.
The Background
There’s a lot of scary research out there on how parents’ ages impact their children. Some studies suggest that ...
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Societies seek action on rising helium prices
No laughing matter: helium prices rise up
A report by three US societies has highlighted the threat of rising helium prices, finding that some institutions are paying two-and-a-half-times more for liquid helium than they did in 2009. The organizations – the American Physical Society, the A...
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Putting a human cost on endocrine disruptors
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Phthalate plasticizers, used in a variety of plastic products such as these shown, have long been under scrutiny as endocrine-disrupting chemicals.
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Long-term, low-level exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals costs ...
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Impossible crystals snag chemistry Nobel
Daniel Shechtman takes award for doggedly pursuing quasicrystals.
Daniel ShechtmanAP Photo/Ariel Schalit
A materials scientist who discovered crystals with structures that many believed to be impossible — and who stubbornly held his ground against fierce opposition — has claimed this yea...
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Fukushima 'hot spots' raise radiation fears
Published online 14 October 2011 |
Nature
| doi:10.1038/news.2011.593
News
But experts see little threat from patches of heightened radioactivity.
Geoff Brumfiel
A hot spot of radiation detected in Tokyo was traced to abandoned bottles...
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Lying feels bad at first but our brains soon adapt to deceiving
Fibs become as normal as the nose on your face
Valentina Bielli/EyeEm/Getty
By Jessica Hamzelou
Little white lies have a tendency to snowball. Now we’ve found out why – the more we lie, the more our brains seem to become desensitised to the act of lying. Could this discovery help prevent ...
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Mars Science Lab launch delayed two years
WASHINGTON (CNN) — NASA’s launch of the Mars Science Laboratory — hampered by technical difficulties and cost overruns — has been delayed until the fall of 2011, NASA officials said at a news conference Thursday in Washington.
A photo illustration of a...
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Creepy discovery: New millipede found in California cave
Scientists have discovered a rare new species of millipede, and if this leggy insect wore shoes, it would need to buy over 200 pairs of them.
That’s because the critter has 414 legs.
Found in a marble cave in California’s Sequoia National Park, the crawly creature is called Illacme tobini. It...
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ROBOT JUDGE: AI could be used in trials after accurately predicting guilty verdicts
A new AI system could help courts rule on whether people are innocent or guilty.
Researchers from the University College London, the University of Sheffield and the University of Pennsylvania gave their machine key information on 584 cases relating to Articles 3, 6 and 8 of the European...
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20 Dazzling Photos Of A Bizarre World You Need A Microscope To See
A spectacular “zebrafish selfie” has been awarded first place in the 2016 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition, the camera maker announced today. The annual contest showcases “the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light microscope,” according to Nikon’s website.
The ...
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New Fern "Born This Way," According To Duke Researchers Who Give Plants Names Like "Gaga Monstraparva"
It’s official: Lady Gaga is now an honorary fern.
The superstar has taken on many different appearances throughout the years, including a body-suited, catlike creature in her “Bad Romance” music video and her male alter ego, Joe Calderone. But last week Duke researchers...
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Girls Who Code: Girls Who Code Isn"t Just An Organization -- We"re Building A Movement
By Reshma Saujani, CEO and Founder, Girls Who Code
This summer Girls Who Code taught 1,560 girls computer science across the US. During the past seven weeks, girls from all over the nation got hands-on experience learning and writing code, went on field trips to local tech companies,...
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Disgraced Scientist"s Nobel Prize Sells For Record Sum
How much is a Nobel prize worth?
If you’re James Watson, who shared a 1962 Nobel for his role in the discovery of the structure of DNA, it’s worth about $4.76 million. That’s how much his 23-carat gold medal fetched at auction in New York City on Thursday night (the...
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