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Ancient Greek Computer Technology
In 1900, Elias Stadiatos was diving near the Greek island of Antikythera searching for sea sponges when he encountere...
Written by
Alan Bellows
• 21 Oct 2005 •
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The Price of the Nobel Prize
Sometimes the requirement of giving out a prize annually causes the prize committee to deal the accolades out on some...
Written by
Jason Bellows
• 18 Oct 2005 •
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Nature’s Nuclear Reactors
In the early- to mid-1950s, Dr. Paul Kuroda from the University of Arkansas described the possibility of naturally oc...
Written by
Alan Bellows
• 11 Oct 2005 •
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It Rains More on Weekends
Fair weather often seems to play hard-to-get on warm season weekends. During the work week, we toil under buzzing flu...
Written by
Alan Bellows
• 06 Oct 2005 •
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Curio:
Don’t Catch a Fat
There's been a lot of research findings about obesity in the past few decades, but this seems to be the weirdest yet:...
Written by
Bryan Lowder
• 06 Oct 2005 •
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The Emotional Bankruptcy of Alexithymia
Few people are familiar with the condition known as alexithymia, yet it is not so rare a thing. Alexithymia is condit...
Written by
Alan Bellows
• 04 Oct 2005 •
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It Were Aliens! I Seen ’em!
In a far off region of Siberia, known as Tungunska, an event occurred early in the last century that has caused much...
Written by
Josh Harding
• 04 Oct 2005 •
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The First Successful V-2 Rocket
On Oct. 3, 1942 the first successful V-2 rocket was deployed from an island off of Germany's Baltic coast. The rocke...
Written by
Shad Larsen
• 03 Oct 2005 •
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Fainting Goats
Most of the internet savvy, it seems, are somewhat lacking in knowledge relating to the interesting topic of "bizarre...
Written by
Jason Bellows
• 30 Sep 2005 •
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Liquid Telescopes
Ask any astronomer if she’d like a perfectly parabolic six-meter-diameter mirror at one-fiftieth the price, and she’l...
Written by
Bryan Lowder
• 27 Sep 2005 •
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