Science and Nature
What can science reveal about personal religious experience? You might think that these two very separate worlds just don’t mix—oil and water, data and faith. Yet more than half of adult Americans report having had a life-changing spiritual experience, and this widespread phenomenon h..
(Read full article on Is God All In Your Head?)
Are your kids whining for a pet, but you are not ready for a high maintenance dog or cat? Consider purchasing an ant farm for you children. Not only will it satisfy their desire for a pet, ant farms are action-packed education tools that are so fun, you kids won’t even realize that they're ..
(Read full article on Teeny Tiny Pets - Old Fashioned Ant Farms!)
For some reason students rarely seem to get excited about cell biology, a class that is typically required for anyone entering into the field of health care. In the cell biology course that I teach, to help perk up interest in the cellular world, I start the semester off with a little s..
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U.S. astronauts aboard the International Space Station couldn’t believe their eyes when they looked down and saw what looked like crop circles in the ice. Located in Lake Baikal, in Siberia, a circular area of darker, thinner ice approximately 2.7 miles in diameter appeared. Is ..
(Read full article on E.T. Visit or Nature's Prank? Mystery of Ice Circles Solved!)
To anthropomorphize is to attribute human feelings to things that are not human, and it is the end-all-beat-all cardinal sin for an animal behaviorist to commit. But outside the realm of science, does a little anthropomorphism hurt anyone? Maybe. Pets Can Seem Like People..
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Ever wonder why your cat has six toes? Does the latest X-Men movie make you wonder about mutants? Here's an explanation of what genetic mutations really are and how they occur in nature. Genes are units of inheritance that exist within chromosomes, and each chromosome is a double-stranded..
(Read full article on From 6 Toes to Super Powers. Are Mutants Real?)
Garden centers offer a huge variety of plants to choose from and books to help you design a beautiful botanical show of colors and textures for both sun and shade, but the cost of creating a perfect garden showplace can be prohibitive. Here is how you can create the same sanctuary for very little..
(Read full article on Tips to Find Free Perennial Garden Plants)
The tasks of daily living that most of us take for granted are much more challenging to accomplish in outer space, especially those personal things involving an astronaut's privates. This question, how to capture human waste at zero Gs, is so important in fact, that in 2007 NASA spent 19 million ..
(Read full article on How Do Astronauts Pee In Space?)
Hubble is the first large optical telescope to be placed in space (miles higher than any mountaintop observatory). Having this powerful telescope in space is so advantageous because its view is not obscured by atmospheric distortion, cloud cover or the bright lights of our cities. Since the space..
(Read full article on No More Hubble Trouble As Atlantis Heads Home)
Most of us have tried to lose weight at some point in our life, and some people seem to be constantly on a diet. Yet calorie-slashing rarely results in long-term weight loss. A low- calories diet sends a message to your body that resources are scarce. So your body tries to conserve energy. The on..
(Read full article on Building Muscle and Losing Weight)
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