Posted in My Thoughts on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After a closer examination of the Antikythera Mechanism, a surviving marvel of ancient Greek technology, scientists have found that the device not only predicted solar eclipses but also organized the calendar in the four-year cycles of the Olympiad, forerunner of the modern Olympic Games.
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Antikythera Mechanism Research Project
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Posted in My Thoughts on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“On October 21 (1948) the Government of Israel took a decision that was to have a lasting and divisive effect on the rights and status of those Arabs who lived within its borders: the official establishment of military government in the areas where most of the inhabitants were Arabs.” — Martin Gilbert, “Israel: A History”
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Posted in My Thoughts on July 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Arthur C Clarke’s final book of science fiction, written with Frederik Pohl, transports the reader to the first Lunar Olympics. This is an exclusive extract
Video: Arthur C Clarke’s 90th birthday reflections
Obituary: Arthur C Clarke
She did go there, too.
Not immediately, of course. A lot had to be done before that first-ever lunar Olympics could be held [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Scholars plan to reunite ancient Bible _ online
“It cuts out the post-resurrection stories,” said Juan Garces
By RAPHAEL G. SATTER – 2 days ago
LONDON (AP) — The oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, a 4th century version that had its Gospels and epistles spread across the world, is being made whole again — online.
The British [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft has created a video of the moon transiting (passing in front of) Earth as seen from the spacecraft’s point of view 31 million miles away. Scientists are using the video to develop techniques to study alien worlds.“Making a video of Earth from so far away helps the [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Solar race cars this week began their nine-day, 2,400 mile chase from Dallas to Calgary, Alberta using only the sun for fuel.
The 24 teams in the American Solar Challenge race are mainly US college teams including entries from MIT, Ohio State and Northwestern. The University of Michigan’s Continuum car is the defending champ, having won [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By Michael BensonSunday, July 13, 2008; B03
Consider the International Space Station, that marvel of incremental engineering. It has close to 15,000 cubic feet of livable space; 10 modules, or living and working areas; a Canadian robot arm that can repair the station from outside; and the capacity to keep five astronauts (including the occasional wealthy [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Church officials say UCF Student Senator Webster Cook was disruptive and disrespectful when he attended Mass held on campus Sunday June 29. It was during that Mass where Cook admits he obtained the Eucharist.
The Eucharist is a small bread wafer blessed by a priest. According to Catholics, the wafer becomes the Body of Christ once [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on July 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
BARBARA FORREST knew the odds were stacked against her. “They had 50 or 60 people in the room,” she says. Her opponents included lobbyists, church leaders and a crowd of home-schooled children. “They were wearing stickers, clapping, cheering and standing in the aisles.” Those on Forrest’s side numbered less than a dozen, including two professors [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
‘War Powers’ Plan Faces Steep Odds
Former secretaries of state James Baker and Warren Christopher held a press conference on Capitol Hill this morning to unveil the fruit of their most recent bipartisan commission labors, a proposal to repeal the dysfunctional 1973 War Powers Act and replace it with a new framework to govern how and [...]
