You may have heard that the great Stephen Hawking was admitted to hospital yesterday and was (According to reports) “very ill” with a chest infection.
An update on his website this morning (hawking.org.uk) states “Professor Hawking is being kept in for observation at Addenbrooke’s hospital this morning. He is comfortable and his family is looking forward [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘science’
April 22, 2009
Stephen Hawking – Mind Over Body?
March 26, 2009
Internet Evolution – “The Machine”
www, world wide web, web, internet, net, web 2.0, (web 3.0??)….. “The Machine”
Paradigm Shifts
Evolution of information is going to play a significant role in the future of the human race. With massive technology advances, and high demand for better, faster, stronger everything, the role the (currently known as) internet will play is huge. Web 2.0 [...]
March 23, 2009
Know Your Enemy – The Creation Museum
The Creation Museum is a creationist museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, designed to promote young Earth creationism. The museum presents an account of the origins of the universe, life, mankind, and man’s early history according to a literal reading of the book of Genesis.
As they are not too interested in providing facts, i thought i would [...]
March 23, 2009
Halo Orbital Technologies – web update!
There’s been some movement over at Stan Deyo’s HALO Orbital Technologies web site.
This is very exciting, as a post was long over due, and i was personally starting to wonder if things had hit the wall.
Apparently not! Click the below link to read Stans post.
HALO website
March 12, 2009
Music Tastes vs. Intelligence
PhD student Virgil Griffith has posted his results on the question “Could one’s musical tastes say something about intelligence?”
Click here to see the full graph.
The results are pretty interesting, comparing individuals music tastes with SAT scores. Cleverly titled “Musicthatmakesyoudumb”
source: http://musicthatmakesyoudumb.virgil.gr/ via news.com.au
March 10, 2009
Stem Cell Research – Finally
U.S. President Barack Obama has signed an order to lift the ban on stem cell research, originally put in place by the Bush administration.
This gives hope to many around the world, and is very significant.
Full article from the Science News website:
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/41527/title/President_reverses_federal_ban_on_stem_cell_funding
