by Jim Stitzel | Sep 5, 2006 | Science
I’ve been delighted that a “friend”:http://fadingdust.wordpress.com of mine has joined the ranks of bloggers. He never fails to stimulate my thinking, and his “entry”:http://fadingdust.wordpress.com/2006/09/03/evil-problems/ from the...
by Jim Stitzel | Aug 1, 2006 | Science, Writing
I hadn’t realized until my wife and I moved back out to the country just how many shooting stars fall in a given night. Nearly every time I am outside, in the dark, to feed the horses, whether it be early morning or after sunset, I usually see at least one or...
by Jim Stitzel | May 11, 2006 | Science
Men Pay the Ultimate Price to Attract Women – Yahoo! News Personally, I like this part: bq. “Women live longer in almost every country, and the sex difference in lifespan has been recognized since at least the mid-18th century,” said Daniel Kruger at...
by Jim Stitzel | Apr 5, 2006 | Science
Science and rationality cannot _disprove_ the existence of God, just as they cannot _prove_ the existence of God because God is far larger than anything that exists. Nothing that we have available to us can ever explain something that large. It’s just like the...
by Jim Stitzel | Mar 22, 2006 | Science
According to modern scientists, our universe began with a gigantic explosion, forcing a “traumatic growth spurt before it was a billionth of a billionth of a second old.” ((“Best ever map of the early universe...
by Jim Stitzel | Mar 16, 2006 | Science
New Scientist Breaking News – Methanol-powered artificial muscles start to flex Notable quote: bq. “One day you could find yourself sitting in a bar next to a humanoid robot, who is taking a shot of vodka to give himself the energy to go to work,”...
