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The Total Perspective Vortex

Most people think of the "mentally disordered" as a delusional lot, holding bizarre and irrational ideas about themse...
Written by Christopher S. Putnam • 14 Jun 2007 • Read →
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Beware the Dangers of Oxygen

There's a caustic substance common to our environment whose very presence turns iron into brittle rust, dramatically...
Written by Jason Bellows • 11 Jun 2007 • Read →
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Living in the Moment

"I don't remember things," Henry explained to the unfamiliar female interviewer. She seemed very curious about how h...
Written by Alan Bellows • 06 Jun 2007 • Read →
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Half Science and Hafnium Bombs

In the latter half of 1998, a small clutch of researchers and students at the University of Texas embarked upon a gro...
Written by Alan Bellows • 31 May 2007 • Read →
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A Walk in the Valley of the Uncanny

In June 2006 at the ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories in Keihanna, Japan, reporters and scienti...
Written by Marisa Brook • 24 May 2007 • Read →
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The Birth Control of Yesteryear

Approximately 2,600 years ago-- around 630 BCE-- the Greek island of Thera was plagued by drought and overpopulation....
Written by Alan Bellows • 21 May 2007 • Read →
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Terror on Wall Street

On 16 September 1920, throngs of brokers, clerks, and office workers poured from the buildings lining New York City's...
Written by Alan Bellows • 14 May 2007 • Read →
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Staying Abreast of Human Sexuality

There are 1.75 million animal species that have been noted and named by our scientific classification system. Of the...
Written by Jason Bellows • 10 May 2007 • Read →
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The Windscale Disaster

In the wake of World War 2 the United States government enacted legislation which prohibited any other nations from r...
Written by Gerry Matlack • 07 May 2007 • Read →
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Bad Blood in Tuskegee

Early in the twentieth century, the medical community was practically helpless in its battle against syphilis. The c...
Written by Alan Bellows • 30 Apr 2007 • Read →
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