Cells to little weird animals to gorillas to humans. How could humans have come gorillas? Evolution. Many scientists believe in evolution, humans evolving from earlier primates. They didn’t just say “Hey look at that monkey! He looks just like your…
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As the 200th birthday, February 12, 2009, of Charles Darwin rapidly approaches, I find myself reflecting on the man, his work, and his sheer intuitive nature and depth of perception. I am not alone in these reflections as articles touting…
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Most of us occasionally act on impulse and usually live to regret it. A person with an impulsive personality acts on impulse continually. It will land him or her in some pretty dreadful situations, and if you associate closely with…
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The theory of evolution has been one the most hotly debated questions in the history of mankind. Ever since Charles Darwin proposed that there was some sort of adaptive feature that allowed the fittest to survive, humanity has been at…
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Have you ever seen a pig? We know that pigs live on a farm in the country, and they live in a big red barn. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a pig? Pigs go…
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Rainforests, tundras, and savannas: all words for very different places that most of us know, but many people still question what a biome is. These three environments are actually more alike than you think – all three are examples of…
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It’s amazing to me, that in a country that prides itself, at least publicly, on its encouragement of individuality, that the idea of group-think could ever be thought of as anything other than evil or dangerous. But, if you look…
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Must-Not-Realize-the-Truth TV: Frankfurt School/Critical Political Economy Theory and Primetime Television The revolution would come. The revolution had to come. Since the arrival of the previous “revolution”the Industrial Revolutionthe economic practice of capitalism exploited the working class. In Karl Marx’s point…
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In the universe, a large amount of liberated energy (that is, energy not tied up as matter), exists as heat. Most energy eventually filters down to heat, after being transformed through all its various states. For example, if I use…
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A recent New Scientist article discussed the “Tree of Life” used by evolutionary scientists for so long, and the current research and debate that seems to call for a substantial change in the appearance, even the truth of the Tree…
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