A fragment of papyrus known as the “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife,” caused a controversy when it was published by the Harvard Divinity School in 2012. Now, it has been tested and the study reports “the ink and papyrus are very likely ancient, and not a modern forgery.” The writing contains the phrases “Jesus said to […]
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Vegetarians Are Less Healthy
A new study had concluded that vegetarians are less healthy than omnivores: Nutrition and Health – The Association between Eating Behavior and Various Health Parameters: A Matched Sample Study Nathalie T. Burkert*, Johanna Muckenhuber, Franziska Großschadl, Eva Rasky, Wolfgang Freidl Institute of Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria Abstract Population-based studies have […]
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Tagged diet, food, health, omnivores, vegetarians, wellness
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Big Bang Heard
Scientists in the USA believe they have discovered echoes from the Big Bang! A specialized telescope (called Bicep — Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) that is located at the South Pole has detected “primordial gravitational waves.” “In physics, gravitational waves are ripples in the curvature of space/time that propagate as a wave, traveling outward […]
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Tagged Big Bang, birth of the universe, cosmology, gravitational waves, primordial gravitational waves
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Russia, Ukraine, Crimea and the USA
A couple of interesting facts: 1) On March 29, 1867, Stoeckl informed Secretary of State William Henry Seward that the Czar had agreed to sell Russian interests in Alaska to the United States. 2) In 1954, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev gave Ukraine a gift: Crimea.
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Tagged Crimea, deomocrty, Russia, sovereignty, Ukraine, USA
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Post-mortem Brains
National Institute of Mental Health — To expedite research on brain disorders, the National Institutes of Health is shifting from a limited funding role to coordinating a Web-based resource for sharing post-mortem brain tissue. Under a NIH NeuroBioBank initiative, five brain banks will begin collaborating in a tissue sharing network for the neuroscience community. “Instead […]
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Wake Up In Space
A spaceship launched 10 years ago is approaching its target — a comet. A landing unit will harpoon itself to the surface. Comets are among the most beautiful and least understood nomads of the night sky. To date, half a dozen of these most heavenly of heavenly bodies have been visited by spacecraft in an […]
Cheese: Toe, Armpit, Belly Button and Mouth Bacteria
The “Grow Your Own… Life After Nature exhibition,” is an exhibit where cheeses are created using “microbial sketches” created with bacteria samples from various people’s body parts. Each cheese ends up smelling like the donor’s body odor. “I’m really excited about things that sometimes are a little bit gross, a little bit disgusting,” microbiologist Christina […]
Record Breaking Cold Weather and Global Warming
Since we began studying global warming, there has been one thing all scientists could agree on — man-made warming of the Earth will cause an increase in extreme weather events. We are not saying that the Earth’s temperature is just going to rise. In general, as energy is added to a system, the fluctuations in […]
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Interstellar Overdrive
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from our sun. New and unexpected data indicate Voyager 1 has been traveling for about one year through plasma, or ionized gas, present in the space between stars. Voyager […]
Dating The Calendar
The history of calendars goes back thousands of years. The oldest calendar is a Lunar Calendar found in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, from 8,000 BC. The modern day calendar is known as the Gregorian calendar. This calendar is a refinement made in 1582 to the Julian calendar to help Easter align with the time of the year […]
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Tagged dates, days, Gregorian calendar, leap year, New Year, New Year's Day, years
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