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AstronomyEarth like planet discoveries
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HD 85512 b This year astronomers in Switzerland found a planet, which they call HD 85512 b, that could possibly support life. It's an amazing discovery and tremendously exciting to imagine the...

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Reality & MetaphysicsHow did we start using time?
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Time is just a name man gives an insubstantial concept that rlates to change. Changing petterns of night and day, weeks, months, years etc. etc. And the change that gradually occurs to any living thin...

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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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24 December 2012 Hyades for the Holidays Image Credit & Copyright: Jerry Lodriguss (Catching the Light) Recognized since antiquity and depicted on the shield of Achilles according to Homer,...

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AstronomySounds of Space: "Chorus" radio waves within Earth's magnetosphere
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'Chorus', also known as 'dawn chorus', are naturally occurring electromagnetic radio wave/s emitted from the Earthâ€™s magnetosphere that are audible by the human ear. These r...

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Eastern Philosophy is comfortable
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Pythagoras invented pythagoras' theorom. He found that by rearranging triangles into different shapes we essentially could rearrange them into a kind of square with a gap representing a square in...

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What's Masculine and Feminine
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1800-1900c. (Period of Enlightenment) also known as modernity-- is largely the reason we have the gender performative roles we have today. With the developement and the continual evolution of: math...

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Religions demystified
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Thanks for the great site... as a former Christian I've been looking into all of this stuff for a long long time myself... but not only that trying to figure out what all of this hocus pocus is r...

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Epistemology: Truth & KnowledgeIs there a path to wisdom?
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Is there a path to wisdom? How can I know what I do not know? How can I trace that boundary between knowledge and ignorance? In the dialogue 'Apology' Plato writes about Socrates while in the du...

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Chaos theory
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(I'm hoping some of you can grasp this concept; especially anyone who may be an ontological anarchist) Imagine a world where the flap of a butterfly's wings on one side of the world sets...

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Physics & CosmologyExcerp: Cosmology
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The universe is 15 billion years old. 15 billion years ago, all the stuff in the universe was concentrated in a singularity, a mathematical concept, a speck of infinite density. It exploded. This is w...

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AstronomyExcerp: Stars
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The stars are always there, even in the daytime when they are blotted out by the sun. That is something we do not understand as children. As the earth revolves in its yearly orbit, different parts of...

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A New "school"
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I'll do a format similar to Mugen's... English: I'll also say that more communication classes are a must. In addition, schools should bring back at least basic grammar for freshmen i...

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Jim Colyer in Alaska
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I flew to Minneapolis on September 8, 2006, changed planes and flew on to Anchorage, Alaska. I flew Northwest Airlines, using Expedia.com. Roundtrip fare was $731.80. It was inches and feet. Things cl...

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AstronomyExcerp: The Solar System
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The solar system began as a cloud of dust and gas. The cloud began to spin and contract. It contracted into a disc with the sun at the center. Planets formed from the disk. Gravity caused rocky, terre...

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Physics & CosmologyReality in the melting pot
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Thought I may add this article. Just a bit of food for thought for anyone interested in multiverse. Scientific American on Parallel Universes By Max Tegmark (2003). Not just a staple of scien...