Movin On: Taking Transhumanism in Stride

Back in the seventies, we watched The Six Million Dollar Man, a popular television show about a trained agent who was critically injured and given the gift of technology--bionic legs and super vision....Full Article

Global Dumbing?

I am beginning to wonder if scientists have been getting it all wrong. All this time, people have been worried about the Ozone, or a giant asteroid, or some breakout of a bio-hazardous agent by a terr...Full Article

51 Easy, Eco-Friendly Ways You Can Help Sustain Planet Earth

1. Air dry your laundry.2. Ask your utility companies for an energy audit.3. Avoid clothing produced in sweat shops around the world. Women and children deserve fair labor practices.4. Avoid down...Full Article

How I Became Interested In Looking At The Moon

Like a lot of kids, my folks gave me a 60mm telescope for Christmas one year. The scope was a typical department-store brand - not very good - but to a 12-year old kid it opened up the universe.Throug...Full Article

TSUNAMI The Next Big Wave:The Grandaddy of Them All

A few days ago on Melbournes 60 Minutes, renowned scientist Dr Kerry Sieh predicted the guaranteed next big wave or giant Tsunami will definitely happen, and it will be the Grandaddy of them all.Indon...Full Article

Aliens

I am being allowed time out to raise a subject that is dear to my heart (I normally market web sites!).Is there life out there? Are we alone? How did we get here?These are the big questions. For what ...Full Article

Divining Your Soul Number

Your Soul Number, which defines your very essence or hearts desire, is calculated using the vowels in the name that appeared on your birth certificate. This reading describes what you or another perso...Full Article

Veterinary Hematology 101; 2005 Abstract

Veterinary Hematology is more than just blood cells. Blood, highly functional and truly definitive, does much more than provide for the transport of cellular metabolites and waste products. Blood is m...Full Article

Lets Get Dirty

There is no right way of saying this, so Ill say it the wrong way: in order to stay healthy we must stay dirty. Now, that didnt sound right, did it? Put it this way: if we all lived in sealed apartmen...Full Article

How Albert Einstein Saw Things A Little Differently

Albert Einstein had just administered an examination to an advanced class of Physics students.As he left the building, he was followed out by one of his teaching assistants."Excuse me, sir,"...Full Article

Paper - More than Meets the Eye

We are surrounded by so much paper and card that it is easy to forget just how complex it is. There are many varieties and grades of paper materials, and whilst it is fairly easy to spot the varietie...Full Article

The Ecology of Environmentalism

The concept of nature is a romantic invention. It was spun by the likes of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the 18th century as a confabulated utopian contrast to the dystopia of urbanization and materialism....Full Article

The Wages of Science

In the United States, Congress approved, last month, increases in the 2003 budgets of both the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation. America is not alone in - vainly - trying ...Full Article

Paternity Testing - Are You Raising Someone Elses Child?

The dawn of the DNA testBack in the 1700s, the best way to determine paternity was by a good hard look and the child, followed by a good hard look at the father. Enough coincidences and maybe a relati...Full Article

Feb. 12 is Darwin Day -- Secular Americans Celebrate Bday of Evolution Champ

This Feb. 12 marks the 196th anniversary of Charles Darwins birth!The day has special significance for Americas nearly 30 million nonreligious people. In the humanist community, Feb. 12 is Darwin Day....Full Article

Why Dont Moths Fly to the Moon?

Surely, in the days before man invented artificial light, moths would have been attracted to the only light source at night - the moon. Wouldnt they have just kept on flying until they dropped from ex...Full Article

A Wake Up Call To The Scientific Community

Nature has millions of intervowen interrelationships among the numerous flora and fauna. Such relationships are the basis for the food webs and food pyramids. These food webs and pyramids can give us...Full Article

Alchemy: Turning Rocks to Gold Since the Middle Ages!

Alchemy. Such a misunderstood science. I hope this article can help set things straight for whomever reads it.Alchemy is an ancient art, first practiced in the Middle Ages. It was devoted to finding a...Full Article

How Satellite TV Systems Originated

What we know as satellite tv actually had its origins in the space race which began with the launching of the satellite Sputnik by the Russians in 1957. The first communication satellite was developed...Full Article

Pre-empt the Radiation or Die

At West Point, in a speech, President George W. Bush shared the doctrine of pre-emption with his cadets that he articulated as a countermeasure to September 11 attacks. Pre-emption, defined as the ant...Full Article