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The Society for Ecologic Research did some remakes of old postcards of glaciers in the Alps. http://www.gletscherarchiv.de/index.htm Pasterze 1900 AD/2000 AD 1940/2003 Hornkees und Waxeggkees 1905 Tuxerferner, Friesenbergkees 1923 Mittelbergferner...

There are some hints in the bible, that we could be Gods if we only tried. For example: Jesus is accussed for blasphemy, calling himself God and Son of God: What Jesus here refered to is an old Psalm: Now figure in another Jesus' quote: Jesus seems to imply, that some people could be...

The Ontario government wants to intervene in the Supreme Court battle over gene patents, which pits biotech giant Monsanto against Saskatchewan farmer Percy Schmeiser. In 1998, Schmeiser was sued by Monsanto for allegedly growing herbicide-resistant canola in violation of its patent of the...

You may have heard the claim, that the Chinese Great Wall could be seen from space. I'm just discussing this issue with a collegue. I myself doubt it. Anyone knows something about it? Links or satellite photographs are apreciated.

A black cloud of hydrogen gas and supposedly exotic particles, devoid of stars was observed using the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. It appears to be rotating so fast it would fall apart unless it contains a strong, hidden source of gravity. The researchers therefore argue that the...

An employee of the German Dresdner Bank has been threatened with loosing his job, because he runs a web site that promotes a 5-hour working day. The company claimed he would not be "fitting" to the corporate identity. He was forced to resign by himself or to be fired. His "extremist world...

(This is an idea of a dear friend of mine, who is not visiting places like this. If you like it, all praise shall go to him. If you don't, then I will take all the blame for being a green environmentalist jerk. ;) ) Usually, you start the game with your settler/worker combo in a beautifull...

Robert Levine conducted some experiments, about how people would help strangers all over the world. That's what he found out: He also compared several cities of the world. If he is right, you should rather go to Rio de Janeiro if you need help than to New York. Are we...

"Thou shalt not lie" was once set in stone, but now it isn't almost worth the paper it's printed on. A University of Massachusetts' study, found that 60 percent of people lied at least once during a 10-minute conversation and told an average of two to three lies. People were recorded...

In my country, if you want to drive a car, you have to get a certificate of technical clearance on it. Every other year, your car is suspect to a technical inspection. There is a so called "Technical Survaillance Coorporation", that will testify that your car is suitable for partaking in...

Inspired by another post: I doubt that Hitler really did hate christianity that much. If so he did not let people know much of this. Nor did the big heads of the Roman Catholic Church hate Hitler much. This is a NSDAP campaign poster from 1933: it asks, why a Catholic had to vote...

A recent study suggest that chimps belong into the Human Genus. So species name should be changed accordingly into Homo. http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/100/12/7181 The figure shows the inferred phylogenetic relationships among select catarrhines: Old World monkeys, apes and...

Do you ever gas your enemies? Destroy their bases? Use planet-busters? In the council, do you vote for or against UN-Charta?

It's a .jpg, but still it is moving.

What happens when I cut my finger? A pain sensor will "feel" the tissue displacement and send an electric impuls through a nerve fiber, up my spine into the thalamus. There, the signal is distributed into various brain areas and causes certain activity patterns in my cortex. Then I will...

Well, simple question. I remember to have heard some rumors along this line. Anybody knows more?

Some people say that God was all-knowing, omniescent; that he could foresee the run of history and also the decisions of our free-will. People say that time is to God like a mere point in space. To God everything happend, happens and will happen in one blink. God would know how you are going to...

There seems to be a correlation between calorie input and life-span. The less you eat, the longer you live and the healthier you are. There are studies with animals hinting at this. The increased life-span comes along with a reduced body temperature, reduced insulin and cholesterin levels...

Evolution of men has shattered homo sapiens into different races because of the vast distances involved. Travel was slow in pre-historic time when you actually had to go by foot. Migration could not match the speed of genetic drift, so we currently are dispersed into the Africans, the Asians...

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