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NASA Predicts Asteroid 2024 YR4 Might Hit The Moon.

According to observations made by NASA using the James Webb Space Telescope, there is a three point...

Basically No chance 2024 YR4 will hit Earth.

Recent observations have virtually eliminated any concern about an impact from asteroid 2024 YR4...

Asteroid 2024 YR4: A 2032 Threat? Not on Our Watch

Back in December 2024, astronomers caught wind of something unusual—a small, fast-moving rock...

No, Trump’s Executive Orders Can’t Cancel Your Rights.

Donald Trump does not have the power to rescind either constitutional amendments or federal laws...

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Have We Achieved Dr. Martin Luther King's Dream?

Have We Achieved Dr. Martin Luther King's Dream?

Jan 19 2010 | comment(s)

That we should be judged by the content of our characters and not the color of our skin. I don't think so.  The way other "black" people treat each other says no. America has still defaulted on the promisory note he spoke of in his "Dream Speech".   
Black Vs. Mulatto in Haiti: The danger of misunderstanding the internal politics even as we help.

Black Vs. Mulatto in Haiti: The danger of misunderstanding the internal politics even as we help.

Jan 16 2010 | comment(s)

Pétionville, Cité Soleil  Two neighborhoods, same city Port au Prince.  They could not be more different.
The first few hundred thousand years of existence. From the Big Bang. To the Cosmic Microwave Background.

The first few hundred thousand years of existence. From the Big Bang. To the Cosmic Microwave Background.

Dec 18 2009 | comment(s)

Today mankind has a pretty good understanding of what physical processes followed the big bang, and lead to the universe we see  today. This understanding is based on the solid foundation of  direct observations of the first light to travel through a  transparent universe. We also have data gathered by experiments in nuclear and particle physics labs on Earth. From these pieces of data a picture can be drawn of how the universe evolved in the first half million years of existence.
Cosmology of the big bang. Speculative theories and possible future proof.

Cosmology of the big bang. Speculative theories and possible future proof.

Nov 30 2009 | comment(s)

I had an idea that the theories of the earliest stages of the universe were speculative.  I just never really knew how speculative until I really looked at them.  The CMB is as far back as we have actual data. From that we have to divine everything. 
Gender, Society and the Brain. How aggression and culture make us the gender we are.

Gender, Society and the Brain. How aggression and culture make us the gender we are.

Oct 31 2009 | comment(s)

Gender is socially mediated, and constructed, as well as neurologically predisposed.  Innate qualities have to be qualities that do not depend on social interaction.  Consider the so called feral children known to history.  They are what people are like without social interaction or culture.  These children display natural predispositions to certain behaviors, with no cultural overlay.   Complex cultural behavior, dressing, eating with table manners, and much of what we call gender identity are unknown to them.
Balloon Boy: Richard Heene's

Balloon Boy: Richard Heene's "crackpot" "pseudo scientific" idea. EM's influence on cyclones. Updated.

Oct 22 2009 | comment(s)

You read right his "mad" idea is simply that electromagnetic fields effect the formation and evolution of cyclones.  What they proposed and measured in the paper, "