Science History
- Plumbing To Paleontology- Famed Citizen Scientist Fossil Hunter Harley Garbani Dies At 88
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Not many plumbers become known worldwide for significant fossil discoveries but self-taught paleontologist and archaeologist Harley Garbani did just that, finding skulls of the youngest-known Tyrannosaurus rex and the youngest-known Triceratops in a disti ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 24 2011 - 2:47am
- Geniuses Of Britain- The First Five
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It's common practice among learned people that, the more educated the company, the more obscure the lists of people they will invent any time there is a question about history. Science may be universally quantifiable but history of science is quite ...
Article - Hank Campbell - May 16 2011 - 4:12pm
- Science History: A Look At General Electric's Early Guest Book
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What do Ivan Pavlov, Guglielmo Marconi and Thomas Edison all have in common? Not much, you might think- but after the creation of General Electric’s first Global Research Laboratory in the barn behind Chief Engineer Charles Steinmetz’s house in Schenecta ...
Article - News Staff - May 7 2012 - 8:17am
- Health In The Dark Ages: Demonic Possession And Miraculous Healing
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Experts from all over the world are gathering at the University to exchange the latest insights on concepts of 'Health and the Healthy Body' in early medieval times, 400-1200 A.D at a two-day conference, which brings together leading experts in ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 10 2011 - 3:29pm
- History, Science And The TMT Boundary
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History, Science and the TMT Boundary To the extent that written records show political, religious or other personal bias, it may be truly said that history is bunk. Or we may say with Henry Ford that history- as a list of dates of political events- is b ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 20 2011 - 2:54pm
- Blooming Botany (2)
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Now we come to the second part of the series Botany: A Blooming History entitled ...
Article - Robert H Olley - Jul 20 2011 - 10:52am
- History Mysteries #1- Who Shot The Tomatoes?
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History Mysteries #1- Who Shot The Tomatoes? or The Astonishment of a Sailor on Finding Buckshot in His Portion of Tomatoes. Hidden in the details of the Jeannette Expedition one finds a factor in common with the Franklin Expedition: lead poisoning. The J ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jul 1 2011 - 4:02pm
- History Mysteries #2- The Sawdust Coast
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History Mysteries #2- The Sawdust Coast According to Peter Freuchen, writing of his travels in Siberia, circa 1936, the tundra coast near Tiksi in the Lena Delta was fringed with logs and the sea bottom contained "hundreds of thousands of years of s ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jul 10 2011 - 8:51am
- History Mystery #3- Land, Law And Science
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History Mystery #3- Land, Law and Science "Words are to the Anthropologist what rolled pebbles are to the Geologist — battered relics of past ages often containing within them indelible records capable of intelligent interpretation..." John Hers ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jul 14 2011 - 4:27pm
- Demons In Science And Philosophy
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Thought experiments are mental exercises, or imaginative experiments, which are often not possible to perform with current technology. They appear to be particularly popular in physics and philosophy, but are by no means limited to these two fields. There ...
Article - Gunnar De Winter - Jul 18 2011 - 8:18pm