When working around radon, you may worry about the safe limits of gas exposure. It’s certainly something to be concerned about, and something that shouldn’t be taken lightly. Radon-222 is carcinogenic to humans, and as it can be inhaled, that…
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When considering inventions that have vasty improved our quality of life, the first test is to turn the question around and ask ourselves if our quality of life woud have been poorer without those inventions. For example, ipods are useful…
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Inventors and their inventions have been improving life since man learned how to create fire. We become so used to our lives that we forget about the inventions that improve our world. For example, thanks to the wonders of contained…
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Of all the inventions over time, those concerned with energy and mechanics probably have the most impact on our daily lives. Where would we be today without electricity, hydraulics, jet engines and the printing press, for example? Here – in no particular…
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Science is the vehicle through which we learn about the building blocks of the universe and of ourselves. Applied science technology is what allows us to make use of those whats and hows to physically improve our environment and our…
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When inventors are mentioned, most of us have a picture in our mind of an absent-minded professor, with grey hair sticking up all over the place, and thick spectacles, sliding down their nose. However, there’s no age limit on having great,…
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We are in a new generation. The listed, famous, teenage inventors were centuries old: Blaise Pascal (1642) – invented the mechanical adding machine; Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1648) microscope that led to the establishment of microbiology; Benjamin Franklin (1721) wrote articles that were widely…
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Astrology and astronomy both involve the study of the stars and planets, and, increasingly, the search for elements of the meaning of human life in space. Historically, they were even considered essentially the same process. However, today astronomy and astrology…
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The place of science in our society appears to have taken rather a bashing for several decades now. It should be amongst the most revered and celebrated aspects of our culture, given everything that it has made possible for us…
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A government benefits from whatever activity their citizens engage in that is not contradictory to the laws created for the good of its people. And science festivals alerts government officials to what is current in scientific circles. Educational benefits are included in…
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