The jury may be out on this one for quite some time. Karl Popper’s notion of falsification does deserve recognition for being the Occam’s razor of modern scientific criterion for credibility, however there are severe proponents and opponents who offer…
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Nanotechnology is one of the most exciting technologies of recent years. In the future it may allow us to create material far more useful than anything which naturally exists or build complex machines with the push of a few button…
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Recent Nanotechnology Advances – The Science of the Small Old Science Fiction movies had everything giant, giant creature attacking from outers-pace, giant supercomputers to handle complex equations; everything was giant sized. By now most scientists realize the real future of…
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The place of science in our society should be where almost everything deemed important is, but with the same restrictions. Mistakes start occurring when science is treated as an absolute or as something that is totally unalterable. That same thought…
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Just in 2010 alone, scientists found new planets, new life forms, new archaeological sites, and even new life on earth. To start with the outer reaches of planetology light years beyond our own world, evidence of exoplanets, bloated stars, possible…
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Two separate research teams at the University of Birmingham and MIT have made breakthroughs in the quest to achieve workable invisibility by using a material called calcite, a common crystallized type of calcium carbonate found in most seashells. Calcite’s unique…
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Time was once simply measured in astronomical terms, with the passage of the sun recording the passage of time. Surprisingly this can be a relatively accurate method of telling the time. Greater accuracy though occurred through the use of mechanical…
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In order for science to support a theory, it has to be falsifiable, verifiable, or have some empirical deductive/inductive proof. If an experiment could be created to provide any of the criteria necessary to apply the scientific method, then there…
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Anthropomorphism is the action of attributing or assigning human motivations, emotions, reasoning ability, or personality to a non-human animal, plant, moving object, inanimate object, or force of nature. Even abstract concepts can be assigned human personality and conversation. Anthropomorphism can…
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You’re surrounded by robots and you probably don’t even know it. Most are not all that obvious and they won’t come up to you and speak like the Jetson’s Rosie, but they will interact with you. Even if you’re unaware…
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