Category Archives: science

Tangled Wire Theory

October 16, 2019 – 4:53 pm

Last night I put my headphones on the kitchen table. The leads were attached to my iPad. The power chord was separated from the headphone wires by several inches. I fell asleep to dreams of Thailand. I do miss my family. The next morning I woke early and went into the kitchen. The iPad was […]

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Survival Of The Stupidest

November 28, 2015 – 11:06 pm

Charles Darwin was blessed to have circumnavigated the globe in the HMS Beagle. His observations during the five-year voyage of the Southern Seas provided the young self-funded naturalist the time to develop with the theory of Natural Selection or Evolution as well as realized that throughout time Earth had experienced profound geological changes. No one […]

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Light Stops On A Dime

January 31, 2015 – 1:50 pm

According to Wikipedia the f-number (sometimes called focal ratio, f-ratio, f-stop, or relative aperture[1]) of an optical system is the ratio of the lens’s focal length to the diameter of the entrance pupil.[2] It is a dimensionless number that is a quantitative measure of lens speed, and an important concept in photography. The constriction of […]

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Albert Einstein And God

October 8, 2012 – 10:34 am

‎”…The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can change this.” Albert Einstein in a letter ps The physicist is credited with formulating the theory of […]

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The End Of Science

October 6, 2012 – 1:39 pm

The GOP have nurtured a strong disdain of science in their followers as recently evinced by the declaration by Congressman Paul Broun that, “God’s word is true. I’ve come to understand that. All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the big bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit […]

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