After several centuries or millennia of speculating and several decades of searching, humans have failed to find irrefutable evidence of any form of exobiology, or life outside of the confines of the planet Earth. It would therefore be foolish to…
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Is it essential to think from a scientific point of view to find truth? What is science and what is scientific thinking? And what is truth, can we even begin to define it? These are the questions we often attempt…
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As we all know, cigarettes contain nicotine. This is the addictive compound that gets the most attention when cigarettes and smoking are discussed. What is perhaps less well known, is that over 4000 chemicals are released from a lit cigarette….
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At the stroke of midnight, the first second of UTC, or Coordinated Universal Time, has already begun and is written something like (00:00). UTC can be thought of as a chemo-mechanical derivation used to gauge, in any Gregorian calendrical year,…
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Contrary to popular belief, George Washington Carver did not invent peanut butter. Recipes for peanut butter date past the Egyptians. Nonetheless, he did popularize the use of peanut butter, and went on to develop over 300 uses for peanuts as…
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“This is some kind of joke,” I thought to myself as I approached the check-in counter at the Infinity Hotel because it seemed that was the only part of it that existed. If it weren’t real, though, surely I would…
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Want to get a good bop on the back of the head; this is an excellent way to do just that. A flail is a fiendish device that used to be used for thrashing grain. I understand it is still…
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Time exists, and we exist. Time exists because we are aware of the physical movements of the sun and the moon as they appear and re-appear at regular intervals, with the accompanying light and dark that surrounds us. We can…
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Some would argue robots have already taken over the world. There is no human being, after all, who knows the location, control, and amount of global currency for example, on Thursday at five p.m. WET time. Only machines can tally…
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Entry to Confined space: All workers who must work in confined space must be trained. Before any one is allowed to enter the confined space, the place must be certified free of combustible and toxic gases. If the confined space…
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