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The Surprising Truth Behind the Construction of the Great Pyramids
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This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. “This is not my day job.” So begins Michel Barsoum as he recounts his foray into the mysteries of the Great Pyramids of Egypt. As a well respected researcher in the field of ceramics, Barsoum never expected his career to take him down a path of history, archaeology, and “political” science, with materials research mixed in.
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Digital Tricks Preserve Thousands of Dinosaur Tracks
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Digital technology has “frozen in time” thousands of fossilized dinosaur tracks, bringing to life a caravan of paleo-beasts, from towering sauropods to Tyrannosaurus rexes, that stampeded over a rocky Earth millions of years ago.
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[ Wednesday 16th May 2007 ]
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Degradation of Logical Form
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The title is meant to emphasize the immense loss of status I take logic to have undergone in recent decades, and to suggest something about its causes. The loss is most obvious in the context of higher education, where almost no post-secondary institutions now have effectual general requirements in standard formal logic, as that was easily understood thirty or more years ago. |
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Heir of Jewish art dealer sues US gallery over Nazi loot
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The heir of a Jewish art dealer whose entire collection was looted by Nazi troops during World War II is suing a US museum that acquired two of the stolen paintings more than 35 years ago.
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Rare footage of WWI Gallipoli battle unearthed
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The Australian War Memorial has unearthed what it believes is the only footage of Anzac Cove during the Gallipoli battle of World War One, an iconic event in Australian history which is commemorated each year on Anzac Day.
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[ Saturday 21st April 2007 ]
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Blind Science vs. Blind Faith: Some Thoughts on Breaking the Deadlock
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Students in our colleges and universities live constantly in a tension between two authority systems: one more or less vaguely associated with science and the other with religion. Both systems are “blind” in the sense that the edicts they impose on thought and behavior are never, for the vast majority of people, reduced to anything close to understanding, verification, or proof. An illustration comes from a recent experience reported by one of my students.
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[ Tuesday 17th April 2007 ]
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The Quran and Modern Science
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The Qur'an, as the final word of God, anticipated many of the modern scientific discoveries which were beyond human imagination 14 centuries ago. The Muslim scientific revolution, which produced the renaissance that put Muslims at the top of the civilized world for 8 centuries, was a result of contemplating the clues in the Qur'an about the physical world.x |
[ Tuesday 10th April 2007 ]
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China's rising number of young Christians gear up for Easter
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Chinese Christians are preparing to celebrate Easter amid a nationwide religious renaissance led by an army of young people seeking faith in the modern world, religious leaders and academics sai. |
[ Monday 09th April 2007 ]
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