40,000 Year Old Australian Archaeology Site Reignites Debate On Origins
An Aboriginal leader in Australia claims archaeologists have discovered the world’s southernmost site of early human life. The site is reported to be 40,000 years old. Is this the earliest human site here, and what does it mean in terms of the origins of human settlement?
Recycling Reefer Madness: Why It Still Doesn’t Work
It happens with an all-too-familiar regularity: Another “scientific” study that attempts to draw some connection, however tenuous, between smoking pot and schizophrenia.
Do Earthquakes Trigger More Earthquakes?
Is there a connection between the recent Earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, and now Taiwan, or are they unrelated events? Scientific experts weigh in.
97 Percent Of Scientists Believe In Man-Made Climate Change
An overwhelming number of scientists in countries around the planet believe the science behind anthropogenic climate change. Although this is not reflected in the attitudes of many in the non-scientific general public, there is consensus among the experts who study the Earths climate.
Weird Science: The Bootstrap Hypothesis
There are many topics in Astronomy that are fascinating, but one of the most intriguing is the Bootstrap Hypothesis. This cosmological idea contends that as we examine the larger and larger things in the universe, they are ultimately microscopic parts of a far larger universe, one that merges with the very small. In essence, it contends that we are all living in a universe inside ourselves.
