Social Science

There are many views on evolution.  Most are well worth the total value of those trace bits of matter: water and other molecules, and minerals, that they add up to in their host organism, which is to say, not all…
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Citizen science is a growing trend in the United States, and generally refers to research partnerships between scientists and volunteers, expanding opportunities for scientific data collection. By recruiting the public, citizen science projects allow scientists to collect data more feasibly…
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Tolkien’s “hobbits” (‘homo floresienes” – in the scientific community) were a real species. Two new studies support the view that a very small (3 foot or so tall) species of humans exisited eons ago. Anthropologists and paleontologist researchers have been…
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Survival of the Fittest Only the strongest survive. This is what usually comes to your head once you hear the term “survival of the fittest.” The term was intended to be used as a synonym for “natural selection” or the…
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Shamanism, a system of beliefs or practices that emphasize communication between the physical and spiritual worlds, predates the other organized religions on the planet.  A tribal system that persists today in cultures without a tradition of literature, shamanism emphasizes that there are…
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Natural Disasters and the Origin of Races Throughout the history of the human race we have been plagued by a series of natural disasters that in one way or another have affected the race in general, and specifically has been…
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The true origin of glass making is unknown. What is known, is that the earliest use of glass was most certainly natural glass made by volcanic eruption. Called obsidian, it’s a shiny substance that can be black, orange, grey or…
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For centuries people have asked, what is the mind?  Before the term consciousness or sub-consciousness was common, people had varied views about what self awareness, non awareness, and any awareness, really is.  Even now, in the advanced age of neurology…
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Early Days of Forensic Image Processing When I got started in Web and Internet programming I used to brag about being there “before there were pictures”. But where Forensics and Image Processing is concerned I can also brag about “being…
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Dealing with Change. The only constant is change.  It’s a cliché but true. However, there are 2 types of change and the way we react to each can be quite different. The first type is the change we make ourselves…
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