Vision Science And The Color Green

Vietnam Memorial, Wash., D.C. Vision Science And The Color Green Color has impact upon our lives. Take the color green for example: Vietnam War Armyshirt personalized with name: which you, without...

2012 Apocalypse: Doom or just plain Dumb?

  Prophets of doom have been around for a long time, and the latest date they’ve designated as “Doom’s Day” is December 21, 2012, the winter solstice, in fact. The dead of winter is as good a time...

Prediction and Prophesy; consulting the Oracle for 2009 and beyond; hubbers votes needed!

It was a long haul up the hillside in the heat of the sun, but the travellers believed the journey would be worth the effort. They'd heard such great things about the Priestess, and they just knew that their...

What You Planted

In every action, there is an equivalent or an opposite reaction. SIr Isaac Newton discovered it. This means that we receive what we give. Planting tomato will not bear an eggplant. We should always be...

How Sir Isaac Newton became Master of the Royal Mint and profited from it Financially

Bimetallism: on the origin of the Gold Standard In Great Britain, Sir Isaac Newton, the famous scientist, was also the master of the mint; he overvalued Gold so that Gold became a standard in that country. ...

How to Build a Newtonian Demonstrator

A Newtonian demonstrator is also called the "Newton's Cradle" and is sold as an office desk toy. It comes in a dramatic range of sizes and shapes, as you can see. The Geek Group in Kalamazoo makes the giant size.

My 100th Hub: A collection of Kandinsky Paintings

Einstein, Newton, coffee, my Westie...the conclusion

You know how sometimes the morning is going along nicely, you are drinking coffee, reading the morning paper... That was me..until my beautiful Westie ran into the room, jumped on my lap, spilling the...

Scientists That We Owe A Debt To

Seems our debt is great when it comes to certain individuals in history, this is also true of the many scientists from long ago

Edmund Halley

      Edmund Halley was an English astronomer and mathematician born in 1656.  He was the first astronomer to predict the return of a comet.  In 1676 he went to St. Helena to observe the southern...