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69It Couldn't Possibly Happen Here
Denial can be a dangerous thing. This hub explores some examples of extreme weather, and why telling yourself "it couldn't happen here," doesn't mean it won't.
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66Galileo's Frankenstein
The dispute between Galileo and the Catholic Church is used as a classic example of the tension between science and religion. However, to dismiss the controversy as merely "the Church is hostile to science" is an inaccurate headline of history. Nuanced in the dispute is a deeper struggle between man's ability to create and man's relation to creation.
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77How to Create Life: Synbio and Beyond
Synthetic Biology- synbio- is the science of creating artificial life. If the 20th century was the age of technologies based on iron and silicon, the 21st will be dominated by technologies based on living tissues- if the synbiologists are right.
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72Kenneth Branagh, British Actor Extraordinaire
Favorites come and favorites go, but one has remained constant for the past 2 decades. British actor Kenneth Branagh is always at the top of my list of favorite actors. I first saw him on stage in Toronto in...
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61One Intelligent Male's Ruminations On The Post-Feminist Paradigm or In Praise Of Boobies
First, an anecdote from my life. My childhood as a white boy in a middle class suburb was thoroughly unremarkable. I wasn't beaten, I wasn't raped, and I wasn't set on fire, so besides my memoirs never...
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54"Boltneck" Movie Review
Starring Matthew Lawrence, Justin Walker, Christine Lakin, Shelley Duvall, and Richard Moll. Alternate title, "Big Monster On Campus" Boltneck is the story of a lonely teenage nerd named Frank Stein who...
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62Spooky Halloween Party Music
One of my most favorite types of genera music is Halloween music. This music category is loose. Some songs are intentionally recorded to sound scarey. Some are for movies, plays or TV soundtracks and are not...
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59Greatest Creatures of Sci-fi/Horror/Fantasy...Part One
Don't we all love stories about weird, unearthly, powerful beasts? As far back as Greek mythology, we have tales of the Hydra and the Kraken. Later, Beowulf fought Krendel and Knights slew dragons. We love...
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55The Frankenstein Daemon
Everyone knows the name Frankenstein. Usually, people think of him/it as the monster portrayed by Boris Karloff. But those people are WRONG. Frankenstein was Victor Frankenstein, a...
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67Your Mirror Called, It’s Hoping You’ll Take A Good Long Look At Yourself
Before you all get on your high horses and send me the kind of hatemail (that’s hate and email put together folks) that can only be produced by women who love to tell us men how wrong we are (see my...
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