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A Warmer World

hyperpat wrote 4 months ago: The UN is holding another conference this week about strategies to ameliorate the possible consequen … more →

Tags: Economics, Politics

Science Fiction, The Undead Genre2 comments

hyperpat wrote 4 months ago: Probably somewhere around 1930, someone was stating that science fiction was dying, that all the sto … more →

Tags: Books, Science Fiction, Science fiction and fantasy, SF, writing

Indonesian Aerospace Company (PT Dirgantara Indonesia), July 2009

indomil wrote 6 months ago: Source: antara, wikipedia, antara, airforce-technology.com, etc. A Brief Introduction of PT Dirganta … more →

Tags: military, aircraft, Dirgantara Indonesia, tni-au

One Step to LAPAN Satellite Launch Vehicle Realization

indomil wrote 6 months ago: Source: Kompas Newspaper RX-420 rocket with diameter 420 mm and length 6.2 m was the biggest rocket … more →

Tags: LAPAN, Satellite

Science Study: Munitions Materials Found in World Trade Center Dust

Khepera wrote 7 months ago: There are a lot of questions which remain unanswered for many clear-thinking Americans — and o … more →

Tags: News/Info & Analysis, Science News, perspectives, 9/11, Physics, Chemistry, Chemical Physics, Physical Chemistry, thermite

Siftable Computing: The Genesis of Physical Data Tools2 comments

Khepera wrote 8 months ago: This is a brief consideration of some of the new tech developments cresting the horizon.  Some of yo … more →

Tags: Culture, Consciousness & Society, News/Info & Analysis, Science News, Tech Mesh, Teaching, Learning, Music, cell phone, Siftable Computing

H.R. 875: Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 - (REVISED)

Khepera wrote 9 months ago: New info has come to my attention regarding this story…see below @ ADDENDUM. Also @ Rep. DeLau … more →

Tags: Culture, Consciousness & Society, Family & Community, News/Info & Analysis, Science News, Business & Finance, Health & Wellness, perspectives, Agriculture, HR 875

Food Combining -- a zone of lost knowledge/understanding1 comment

Khepera wrote 9 months ago: All to often, as is symptomatic of western culture, we are conditioned to grasp for threads, splinte … more →

Tags: Family & Community, Science News, Health & Wellness, perspectives, health, Diet, Digestion, Food Combining, stomach chemistry

Book Review: Medical Apartheid

Khepera wrote 9 months ago: The next time you find yourself disgusted &/or repulsed by stories of medical experimentation on … more →

Tags: Book/Movie Reviews, Culture, Consciousness & Society, Family & Community, News/Info & Analysis, Science News, Health & Wellness, Scholarship, perspectives, Medical Apartheid

African Mathematics

Khepera wrote 2 years ago: I have posted some things about AMUCHA in the past, but there may be some interest in the following, … more →

Tags: Aesthetics, Art & Architecture, Culture, Consciousness & Society, Science News, Tech Mesh, Antiquity, Scholarship, perspectives, Africa, Culture

Puranic Time and the Archaeological Record1 comment

Khepera wrote 2 years ago: In our discussions of history, culture and the development of civilizations, those of us not indigen … more →

Tags: Aesthetics, Art & Architecture, Culture, Consciousness & Society, Essays & Commentary, Family & Community, Science News, Antiquity, Scholarship, perspectives, Perception

African science must regain control of local resources

Khepera wrote 2 years ago: A clear articulation of a much needed discussion…on a variety of levels… Source ******** … more →

Tags: Culture, Consciousness & Society, Essays & Commentary, Family & Community, News/Info & Analysis, Science News, Business & Finance, Health & Wellness, perspectives, Africa

A Plausible Nightmare1 comment

hyperpat wrote 2 years ago: Put Jurassic Park and The Stand together and what you would have bears some frightening resemblance … more →

Tags: Books, Science Fiction, SF

Carbon nanotech may have given swords of Damascus their edge

Khepera wrote 2 years ago: Speaking of laying in the cut… Never mind. Once again, it’s ‘discovered’ tha … more →

Tags: Aesthetics, Art & Architecture, Science News, Antiquity, Metallurgy, Damascus, Sword, cementite, nanotube, Nanowire

Social Relativity2 comments

hyperpat wrote 2 years ago: Are there moral absolutes? The average person would probably say yes, and list murder, theft, rape, … more →

Tags: Philosophy

Zimbabwe: Ziwa - the Ancient, Gothic City1 comment

Khepera wrote 2 years ago: This discovery is key, in part because it speaks to a broad spectrum of human development within the … more →

Tags: Aesthetics, Art & Architecture, Culture, Consciousness & Society, Science News, Antiquity, Scholarship, perspectives, Africa, Culture, archaeology

Living Longer, Part 2

hyperpat wrote 2 years ago: I watched Nova last night, which serendipitously had a segment on current research into extending li … more →

Is Death Really So Bad?3 comments

hyperpat wrote 3 years ago: The human life-span right now seems to have some hard limits at somewhere around 110 years, though t … more →

Can We Learn From History?

hyperpat wrote 3 years ago: Let’s go back in time a little – say, about 65 million years. Pretty nice place we had t … more →

Tags: Books, Politics


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