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Richard Dawkins on Atheists

Admin — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 05:04:23 +0000

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
- Richard Dawkins, 2006

Beam me up: Just how close are we to teleportation?

Admin — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:47:44 +0000

Admit it — at one point or another we’ve all dreamed of being able to teleport. How much easier and less stressful life would be if, at the flick of a switch, we could whisk ourselves direct from home to work without the intervening two hours crushed onto public transport, face wedged into the armpit of an overweight man with a sweat gland problem

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Crows use tools to eat fruit and catch their prey

Admin — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:01:09 +0000

Scientists have now obtained video from 12 camera-tagged crows that showed them making, using and transporting tools; eating fruit, snails and lizards; and interacting with other crows.

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Another quantum mystery: Atoms travel without transiting midpoint

Admin — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:02:41 +0000

Going from here to there doesn’t always mean passing through points in between, despite what philosophers might say. Quantum objects have more mysterious ways to get around. In an experiment with atoms in 3 boxes separated by impenetrable barriers, atoms went from Box 1 to Box 3 without ever going thru the middle-Box 2.

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Self-discipline may reduce Alzheimer’s risk

Admin — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:51:58 +0000

People who are meticulous and “finish what they start” may have a reduced risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study involving Catholic nuns and priests. The most conscientious and self-disciplined individuals were found to be 89% less likely to develop this form of dementia than their peers over the course of the 12-year study.

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Homesick crocodiles Can Swim upto 400 Km to Return Home

Admin — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:09:09 +0000

Scientisits have found that like birds – crocodiles too have a remarkable homing ability when displaced. In an experiment conducted with the help of Steve Irwin – displaced crocs found their way home – travelling around the coast back to their point of departure, taking between 5 and 20 days to get home.

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Six year Old Boy Remembers details of a Past Life: You will be Astonished !

Admin — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:45:04 +0000

An astonishing tale of a six year old boy who remembers a past life that will even give skeptics pause: Little Cameron Macaulay was a typical six-year-old, always talking about his mum and family. But it sent shivers down his mum’s spine…. Cameron was talking about was his “old mum.” Must see the video and keep an open mind.

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Fermi’s Paradox and the Preparation for Contact Hypothesis

Admin — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:54:48 +0000

We are in the curious situation today that our best modern physics and astrophysics theories arguably predict that we should be experiencing extraterrestrial visitation, yet any possible evidence of such lurking in the UFO phenomenon is scoffed at within our scientific community (see the JBIS article linked below for details). This is a very informative site that gives a scientific perspective on this puzzling phenomenon.

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Zipf’s Law – Winner Takes All

Admin — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 23:05:57 +0000

“We Live In A Winner-Take-Almost-All World…….Busy people don’t have time to look at every painting. They only have room in their overcrowded, media-hyped brains for a few paintings. …..there’s only room for one “most
famous painting in the world” and the safe choice is the Mona Lisa…..

There’s a name for this effect. It’s called Zipf’s law, after George Kingsley Zipf (1902-1950), a philologist and professor at Harvard University. He discovered that the most popular wordin the English language (“the”) is used ten times more than the tenth most popular word, 100 times more than the 100th most popular word and 1,000 times more than the 1,000th
most popular word.”

From Unleashing the Ideavirus by Seth Godin

Technological Progress

Admin — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 06:41:11 +0000

“Any study of the history of technological development reveals that technological progress comes from doing things differently in an unpredictable way. Pocket calculators are not built with vacuum tubes. Supersonic flight is not achieved with propellers. Lasers are not just better light bulbs. In short, the future is definitely NOT a mere extrapolation of the past.” – Stanton Friedman, Physicist and UFO Investigator