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story, after all, this is a unique item. Or is it? Maybe it is merely almost but not quite unique. You ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - May 14 2013 - 1:49pm

originated the myths. After 150 years of research into the giant squid that inhabits all the world’s oceans, ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 31 2015 - 8:00am

a genuine manner with proper links and attribution. I am not at all grateful that buckrogers2012 is ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Aug 11 2009 - 11:52am

beautiful laws to Reason underpinning all of Nature. My own view is that it is far better to understand the ...

Blog Post - Theadora Martens - Oct 8 2009 - 4:49pm

world. And I intend to do it briefly. Like all great science stories, this involves a scary comet and ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 16 2011 - 4:12pm

distinction through all future time. It has been poetically said, that the stars of heaven are the hereditary ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 25 2011 - 2:17pm

if I have a gravitational force and you have a gravitational force, then why don’t we all have our ...

Article - Inside Science - Feb 9 2015 - 9:59am

Chesterton “I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees” but surely all ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 12 2018 - 10:53am

his name at all. Magnavox, being first to market a home video game console with the introduction of ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 27 2022 - 10:00am

Aristotle's antiperistasis. It's a shame, we'd all be a little better off if we learned the real ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 6 2024 - 10:10am

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Hontas Farmer
I'm not going to say you are wrong about any of the above. I'd not be surprised by a rising price tag as that seems to be how these things always go. I can't think of any big science...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 4 hours ago
John
To be honest, TMT did this to themselves by not being honest about the cost from the start. Had they told everyone that the cost for the installation would be on the order of $3 billion (most of...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 14 hours ago
Zack Y.
Isn't this a dangerous inversion of how science is supposed to be done? What's to prevent this same scenario playing out for ANY potential discovery coming from a precision measurement...

The Anomaly That Wasn't · 23 hours ago
bizdean
Thank you for this, IrishNeanderthal. Actually I believe what’s going on in America is under-hyped. The mainstream press is far too easy on Mr. Trump, who is convicted of multiple felonies and...

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