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"Gold!"  An alchemist displays to his admiring patrons the precious metal he claims to have made from lead.92

Renaissance Scientists - Part I

Ever questioning minds is something that is gifted at birth to just about every child. Yet, somehow in most cases, we manage to thwart this natural tendency in our children. As a mother and grandmother, this fact is one that I think about a lot.

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Good health is just a sophisticated balancing act

I believe we are living in an era that will bring about a major paradigm shift of unprecedented value in human evolution. This discussion will focus on the implications and potentials that this shift is...

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HOW TO EXPAND YOUR INTELLIGENCE

I - BACKGROUNDIn the second century, Ptolemy proposed the so-called geocentric model of the universe, the earth as the center, and around the planets in perfect circular orbits. This belief prevailed until...

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Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus, latinized form of Mikolaj Kopernik, Polish astronomer, 1473-1543

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The Most Important Figures in the History of Astronomy - Part 1

A famous pre-Socratic era Hellenic philosopher, Pythagoras of Samos, Ionia, is for the most part best-known through his work as registered by his followers, the Pythagoreans. His followers thought that...

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Galileo Galilei

GALILEO GALILEI Galileo Galilei was an astronomer, mathematician and physicist. He was born at Pisa, Italy in 1564. He was born of an lower class Italian nobility and financially less well off. His father...

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How do we define Revisionist History?

right? Okay, assuming that is a correct statement, I have a number of questions. First, how do we determine the winner? In war, the winner is the one who kills the most people, or the one who has managed to...

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The Realitivity of History

Hundreds of years ago, history told us that the world was flat, until Columbus proved that our historical records and maps were mistaken. Before Copernicus could convince the world that the sun was actually...

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Google's April Fool Prank

In recent years it has become common for the mainstream news media to produce an April Fools Day hoax story. Of course no matter how outlandish it is, large numbers of people believe the story. Credit for...

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The Relativity of History

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