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speakeasy archives
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Are you drinking enough water? (July 2004
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The chances are good that you are...
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Dogs understand language (June 2004
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Sit!
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*jawdrop* (March 2004
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just, wow.
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I bow to pseudoscience (February 2004
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wherein I engage in a little pseudoscience.
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Media bias! (January 2004
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Wherein I rant about an ethnocentric headline.
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AstroGeek-out (July 2003
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Not many people know that I'm a major astronomy fan. I love reading about black holes, dark matter, and the like. So, to see "The New History of Black Holes: 'Co-evolution' Dramatically Alters Dark Reputation" was pretty exciting for me, and even helped to change some opinions I had on the formation of the universe....
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homo sapiens idaltu (June 2003
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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Oldest human skulls found Paleoanthropologists have uncovered two homo sapiens skulls in Ethiopia that date back 160,000 years. Though there are some minor differences -- enough for them to classify the skulls as a new subspecies, homo sapiens idaltu -- it gives strong support for the emergence of homo sapiens out of Africa. What's really exciting about this article, however, is that the skulls give evidence of ritual mortuary practices. This makes human culture much, much older. To give you a reference: the Venus of Willendorf, one of the earliest pieces of sculpted art, is about 24,000 years old. The cave paintings in Chauvet, widely regarded as some of the earliest, date back around 31,000 years. The Neanderthals were still a strong subspecies of human, wandering around Northern Europe. To have human culture back that far is quite astounding....
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it was a fake... (November 2002
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Remember that Ossuary that was found a little while back, bearing an inscription that said the bones belonged to James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus? it turns out it was a fake. According to the Israel Insider, the "brother of Jesus" bit was tacked on later, by a different hand....
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what if... (October 2002
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I was thinking this morning, about the Earth's Magnetic Field, and how the magnetic poles reverse themselves every 200,000 years or so. And I wondered, what happens the next time the poles reverse? The magnetic field is overdue, according to the above linked article, so it really could happen at any time... but what happens to our technology if the earth's magnetic field reverses itself? It's a crazy question for a Tuesday morning, I know... but something that struck me as something I'd never thought about before....
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man, gravity's a drag... (September 2002
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Did you know the Earth's gravitational field is uneven? The fine researchers at GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) have provided the world with a World Gravity Model, showing how the Earth looks gravity-wise....
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we don't need no stinkin' physics! (September 2002
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In other news, the speed of light has been broken. Well, sort of....
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a good read... (September 2002
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Scientific American: 15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense 'nuff said....
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in other news... (July 2002
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Researchers at Stanford have discovered why men and women handle emotions differently....
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Life on Mars... (May 2002
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Ice reservoirs have been found on Mars. This is majorly cool, because it dramatically increases the possiblity of ancient / modern life on Mars. Take THAT Creationists!...