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A Life More Colorful

Human beings normally see in color. We are natural trichromats-- we have three different color receptors that permit...

Written by Cynthia Wood • 21 Mar 2006 • Read →

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The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon

You may have heard about Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon before. In fact, you probably learned about it for the first time...

Written by Alan Bellows • 19 Mar 2006 • Read →

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China’s Sorrow

Natural disasters are tragedies that usually strike randomly and infrequently - unless you happen to live in the Huan...

Written by Anthony Kendall • 15 Mar 2006 • Read →

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Shortness of Dark

Depending on who you ask, the first practical light bulb was invented by Joseph Wilson Swan of Britain in 1878, or Th...

Written by Alan Bellows • 13 Mar 2006 • Read →

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The Jumping Frenchman of Maine Disorder

In a nutshell, evolution describes the fact that in a given set of organisms, those which manage to survive are the s...

Written by Alan Bellows • 09 Mar 2006 • Read →

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A Big Footprint on the Steppe

The Y-chromosome is one that geneticists love to study. Because it is passed on from father to son with no matching c...

Written by Cynthia Wood • 05 Mar 2006 • Read →

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The Only Nazi Aircraft Carrier

In no naval action of World War 2 will you find a German aircraft carrier taking part. All the major navies in the wa...

Written by Greg Bjerg • 04 Mar 2006 • Read →

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Watch the Skies in the Year 52,007 A.D.

Fifty thousand years from now-- if all goes according to plan-- a bright streak will smudge the sky as a man-made met...

Written by Alan Bellows • 03 Mar 2006 • Read →

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A Big, Big Hole in the Ground

Yellowstone National Park is a wonder of the natural world. Its geysers, hot springs, and bubbling mud pools are some...

Written by Anthony Kendall • 02 Mar 2006 • Read →

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The Rosetta Project

Do you speak Votian? Votian is the language spoken by the Votes. Votes are the people of Ingria, an area of Russia...

Written by Greg Bjerg • 27 Feb 2006 • Read →

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