Daylight saving time is where clocks are turned forward, usually by one hour, in the spring and turned back again in autumn or fall. This gives an extra hour of daylight in the evening and less daylight in the early…
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Astrology has always been a stomping ground for critics. It does not matter whether the school of thought is Eastern or Western, scientific bodies as well as individual scientists do not accept astrology as a science. Similarly, a great deal…
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In 1939, David Wechsler defined intelligence as “the global capacity of a person to act purposefully, to think rationally, and to deal effectively with his environment.” Alfred Binet, along with a colleague Theodore Simon, developed the first IQ test to…
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Daylight Saving Time was first conceived by Benjamin Franklin. He outlined the idea in an essay entitled “An Economical Project”, in 1784. It was written mostly in jest, but others saw the value and picked up on the idea. In…
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A 1964 UFO Landing In Socorro County, New Mexico I was talking a while ago to an old-timer in the village of Magdalena, NM where I live, and he told me an incredible story. I was mesmerized and astounded by…
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The idea that falsification is the ultimate test of a scientific hypothesis originated with Karl Popper. In his book “The Logic of Scientific Discovery” (1959), Popper argued that the only scientific theories worthy of the name are those whose supporters…
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to not be directed from the truth; descriptive-characterizing, circumstantial, as a descriptive mark- trademark, which merely describes the goods to which it is affixed.descriptive serving and aiming to describe the quality of representing(sawyer stores versus mitchell,103.148,62p.2d,342,348.second meaning of descriptive- some…
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Hornets can be bothersome creatures. They’re aggressive and territorial. They sting. That can cause mayhem when they swarm… But some of them may offer a glimpse into a solution to Man’s renewable energy needs. A hornet may hold part of…
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Coordinated Universal Time, abbreviated as UTC, is the collectively agreed upon accurate international time standard. It is essentially what time it is, according to scientists, weathermen, aviators, and nautical advisers, to the eighth decimal point of a second. It is…
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The topic of the essay has three fundamentally different questions instead of one to be answered perhaps with a ‘model’ or not. 1) Does falsification provide an accurate (most or any) ‘model’ for science? 2) Does an accurate model ‘advance’…
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