Archive for ‘November, 2006

Neanderthals are 99.5% Human

Neanderthal SkullThe next time someone calls you a Neanderthal because of your old fashioned ways, tell him that even so, you’re still 99.5% very much like him.  In fact, you may even want to thank him as Neanderthals most likely had bigger brains than humans.

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Exposed: Homosexual Animals

Homosexuality is an animal instinct after all.  A first-ever museum display, “Against Nature?,”  which opened last month at the University of Oslo’s Natural History Museum in Norway, presents 51 species of animals exhibiting homosexuality. (more…)


Weekend Leonids 2006

Once again, the world is set to watch one of the most popular annual meteor showers – the Leonids. SPACE.com states: (more…)


No one dies of old age

A common misconception among people is that we can die of old age.  The hard fact is that we don’t.  Scientifically speaking, the only two causes of death are injury and disease.  When we think that someone died of old age, this person actually died of disease.  How is this so?

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Space-Based Sun-Shade Concept a Bright Idea

In the past year, I’ve covered two different proposals on using space technology to create some sort of “shade” for the entire planet that would save us from global warming. In covering those stories, words like “radical” and even “outlandish” seemed appropriate.

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Beautiful Crescent Venus and Moon

Never have I seen such a beautiful pair of heavenly bodies.  Imagine taking a look a look at a crescent moon beside a crescent Venus, oh how majestic it is – two goddesses in the sky. (more…)