The Importance of Natural Selection
Zarrar Said Apr 6, 2008 interacts: 604Throughout time we have asked ourselves whether we are fallen angels or risen apes. The answer lies in a simple yet tabooed subject.
Hypnotherapy: Mind-Body Interactions
Rabab Zehra Mar 30, 2008 interacts: 7Imagine thinking yourself to better health. Dating back from 2600 BC this concept of inducing oneself to an alternative state of mind, has evolved through
Search for the God Particle
Mohammad Gill Nov 29, 2007 interacts: 15Pursuit of no other scientific theory has been so intensely single-minded nor so expensive, even the search for cure for cancer, as the search for
Capuchin Monkeys : The Paradox of Choice
Anand Patwardhan Nov 9, 2007 interacts: 1If we are smart how did we end up making such a stupid mistake? If a mistake is made, how could we call ourselves smart?
Ultimate Fate of the Universe
mubasher jamil Sep 16, 2007 interacts: 7Observations of the supernova carried out by two groups in 1999, showed clearly that the universe was not only expanding but undergoing in a wild
In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth
Mohammad Gill Apr 23, 2007 interacts: 447If religion is to follow the scientific lead, it then becomes falsifiable like science. When a religion becomes falsifiable, it loses its divine base and
Johannes Kepler – A Mysterious Cosmographist
Mohammad Gill Mar 23, 2007 interacts: 70He lived his life in poverty and misery but he immortalized himself by formulating his three laws of cosmology. He was a humble person who
Teaching Science Badly – and Well
Pervez Hoodbhoy Mar 1, 2007 interacts: 244Dogmatism kills science. Students should therefore experience science as a process for extending understanding, not as unalterable truth. Never should the teacher say X or
Can We Defy Time or Be Contacted from Outer Space?
Dawood Mamoon Feb 26, 2007 interacts: 18As social human evolution is progressing at a faster rate, so are our capabilities to decode information. We are getting rather more accurate in
Memento Mori
Sidra Omer Feb 6, 2007 interacts: 13
Thoughtful and intriguing quotes, paintings and pictures on and about death and autopsies, gave the take-home message: live life, and
Is “Strings” a Dud Theory?
Mohammad Gill Feb 1, 2007 interacts: 110String theory is criticized by its critics mainly because they claim that it doesn’t make any testable predictions. The few predictions that it does make
Bio-Science at the Crossroads
Mohammad Gill Dec 21, 2006 interacts: 34If there ever was a time to call science into discipline, it was now. It was widely stated that contrary to the Biblical injunction, man
Religious Conservatism and Science
Mohammad Gill Nov 13, 2006 interacts: 32Those who seriously object and obstruct the stem cell research do so on moral grounds. They know that the embryo from which the cells are
Subramanyan Chandrasekhar - an Astrophysicist Par Excellence
Mohammad Gill Sep 27, 2006 interacts: 40Although Chandra was bitter about Eddington’s treatment, they let “bygones be bygones” eventually. Eddington promoted Chandra’s election to the Royal Society in 1944. According to
Comprehending Time
Mohammad Gill Sep 8, 2006 interacts: 82We usually have an intuitive perception of time but when we are asked to explain what it is, we find ourselves at a loss to
The Science Performer
Rinku Dutta Jul 17, 2006 interacts: 2Hooking people, especially children, on to science, is Arvind Gupta’s game. And he has mastered it well. For 25+ years he has been practicing activity-based
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