Written by Dr Jerry L Klause
In my previous essay, Chance Favors The Prepared Mind, I did not end up with the specific topic I intended when I started. So, to keep this essay on the straight and narrow I note the destination in the title. But we begin with the prepared mind referred to by Louis Pasteur.
Written by Jeff Parsons
Astronomers are in for a treat as 2018 gets under way, with the arrival of a blue moon at the end of January. According to tradition, when two full moons appear in the same calendar month the second is termed a “blue moon”.
It is the celestial phenomenon that gave rise to the phrase “once in a blue moon”. The last one took place back in July 2015 . Even though it is called a blue moon, there’s no colour change in store for our lunar neighbour. The moon won’t suddenly appear with a blueish tinge.
Written by BBC
Image copyright: PAIn 2017, scientists thought they had detected Einstein’s gravitational waves from a new source – the collision of two dead stars, or neutron stars. The first direct detection of these waves was announced in 2016, when the Advanced LIGO laboratories described the warping of space from the merger of two distant black holes. The result was hailed as the starting point for a new branch of astronomy, using gravitational waves to collect data about distant phenomena.
Written by Robert F Kennedy Jr
American consumers, particularly parents, should be asking some hard questions about why the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and Immunization Action Coalition (IAC) apparently have no interest in improving vaccine safety.
Written by Simon Osborne
People living around the Pacific Ring of Fire are facing a terrifying New Year of earthquakes and volcanoes after experts predicted a period of unprecedented seismic activity.
Written by Tim Hernolz
When the US entered the nuclear age, it did so recklessly. New research suggests that the hidden cost of developing nuclear weapons were far larger than previous estimates, with radioactive fallout responsible for 340,000 to 690,000 American deaths from 1951 to 1973.
Written by Pierre L. Gosselin
What follows are 6 recent studies presented by Lüning and Vahrenholt, which dump cold water on the claim storms will get more frequent and intense.
Written by Tatum Anderson
Image copyright: TANUSREE CHAUDHURITanusree Chaudhuri, 34, was pregnant with her first child when her supervisor told her she would have to give up her dreams. She was doing a doctorate in computational biology and aspired to improve people’s health.
Written by Michael Bastasch
A blast of Arctic air brought temperatures in the city of International Falls, Minn., down to a new record low of -36 degrees Fahrenheit on Wednesday morning, beating out a nearly century-old record.
International Falls is known as the “ice box of the nation” because the town experiences a high of 32 degrees Fahrenheit for more than 100 days throughout a typical year. The previous record cold for the city was -32 degrees in 1924, but now that’s been shattered, the National Weather Service reported.
Written by Phoebe Weston
Written by aim4truth.org
A new technological revolution is taking place and each person on the internet will be affected.
Written by Martin Armstrong
THE sun is the source of all our warmth. Without it, we would not exist. Like everything else, it is cyclical in nature. The term “lunatic” referred to people who seemed to go a bit strange when there was a full moon. Some people are perhaps susceptible to its gravitational forces. After all, it is the moon that lifts the entire oceans creating high and low tide. There are people who have varying mood swings and others who are a tad more steady. Yet we all have our ups and downs.
Written by Dr Klaus L E Kaiser
Santa really was good this year. Rather than handing out expensive kitchen gadgets to clutter up the shrinking counter space, he had some swell presents in his bag. My Dearest was the clear winner — she got a new snow shovel!
Written by Edsel Chromie
Albert Einstein contributed greatly to modern physics, but was he wrong in his definition of gravity lensing? If you are less impressed with clever manipulation of mathematical equations and prefer empirical science, that which is based on verifiable observation of natural events, then the work of Edsel Chromie will interest you.
Written by www.co2science.org
Paper Reviewed: Pingale, B.N., Singh, S.D. and Yadav, A. 2017. Potential impacts of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide on yield and plant growth of rice (Oryza sativa) and maize (Zea mays) crops. Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences 87: 1041-1044.
Written by James Galllagher
Image copyright: JAMES GALLAGHERIt has been a remarkable year of promise in medical science. Incurable diseases from sickle cell to haemophilia now look as though they can be treated. Here are the highlights.