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Monthly Archives: May 2014
Climate Reality/Climate Denial/Climate Reality
In current events, two studies suggest that the collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet (predicted back in the 1970s to occur as a consequence of unchecked global warming), has already begun. This will lead during the next century to … Continue reading
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The Queen of the Sciences solves the mystery of the dinosaurs’ demise
Medieval academics called theology (or alternatively philosophy) the “Queen of the Sciences” because they saw it as the capstone of all higher learning. Carl Friedrich Gauss used this term to describe Mathematics. I would reserve this term for Paleontology for … Continue reading
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