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Calorie Reduction for Longer Life

Would you be willing to semi-starve in order to live longer? More to the point, would you be willing to semi-starve s...
Written by Cynthia Wood • 07 May 2006 • Read →
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Any Officer Who Goes Into Action Without His Sword is Improperly Dressed

In 1940, some of the German commanders who were overseeing the push into France began to receive seemingly random rep...
Written by Jason Bellows • 06 May 2006 • Read →
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Hadji Ali and the Regurgitators

In the early twentieth century, there was a man of unusual talent known as the Great Regurgitator. His real name was...
Written by Greg Bjerg • 05 May 2006 • Read →
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Eyewitnesses to Hiroshima and Nagasaki

On 6 August 1945, a number of eyes in the Japanese city of Hiroshima turned skyward at the drone of a US B-29 bomber...
Written by Alan Bellows • 03 May 2006 • Read →
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Earth’s Artificial Ring: Project West Ford

At the height of the Cold War in the late 1950s, all international communications were either sent through undersea c...
Written by Anthony Kendall • 02 May 2006 • Read →
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Baseball and the Physicists

Without a doubt baseball has had more serious study behind it than any other major sport. It's hard to say why this i...
Written by Greg Bjerg • 29 Apr 2006 • Read →
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Before the Big Bang

The Big Bang theory is a major marvel of science. It is a conclusion drawn from the collusion of several scientists’...
Written by Jason Bellows • 28 Apr 2006 • Read →
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Ground Effect Vehicles

Until the project was shelved in 2006, Boeing’s Phantom Works Research and Development unit were developing a concept...
Written by Greg Bjerg • 27 Apr 2006 • Read →
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Pathological Laughing and Weeping

Dr. Schiffer’s patient was thirty-seven when he laughed his way through his best friend’s funeral. At that time he ha...
Written by Cynthia Wood • 26 Apr 2006 • Read →
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The Artificial Prison of the Human Mind

In 1971, a study about prisons was funded by the U.S. Navy to try to better understand problems in the Marine Corps.'...
Written by Daniel Lew • 21 Apr 2006 • Read →
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