Science History

The Biblical Subtext In Design And Fonts

believes the “I” is a definite visual punctuation of the beginning of all time, closing off any other ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 30 2008 - 12:54am

The Voynich Manuscript Part 8: Some Notes On Writing Systems

with a given sound or idea in any language whatsoever.  The symbology in all writing systems may have ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jan 9 2010 - 4:33pm

Astronomy and the Greek Muses: Icons of the Rhythms of Life

genius, aid me now!” This may all seem a bit of classical allegory; harmless but slightly anachronistic ...

Blog Post - Richard Mankiewicz - Feb 24 2010 - 11:48pm

William Beaumont: The Father Of Gastric Physiology And His Odd Experiment

of 238 experiments on St. Martin intermittently over an eight-year period. In all, experiments were ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 24 2013 - 11:00am

Alfred Russel Wallace And The Inselaffen

the Germans had their heads all filled with philosophy and romantic poetry.  It is rather like the ...

Article - Robert H Olley - May 16 2013 - 8:50am

A Soldier's Letter Home From The 3rd Century AD Deciphered

in good health night and day, and I always make obeisance before all the gods on your behalf. I do ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 19 2014 - 9:48am

William Astbury's Monkeynut Coat: The Forgotten Road To The Double-Helix

credit, in some sense because he thinks they should have found it first. "To think that Rosie had all ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 17 2014 - 6:43pm

How Richard III Died: Nine Blows To The Head And Then He Was Dead

his pelvis. View from below. The Lancet These injuries to his skeleton were all perimortem, in other ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 17 2014 - 7:30am

Ancient Greek attitudes today

called Gordon Lang believed so. Lang was designing the systems for modems and was busy harvesting all the ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Dec 12 2015 - 10:18am

What If... No Oil?

 Perhaps an all-electric economy could have formed but the amount of energy that can be extracted from dams ...

Blog Post - David LePoire - Jan 13 2017 - 1:38pm