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Spontaneous Creation?

“The universe can create itself spontaneously out of nothing and it has no creator" - Stephen Hawking

(KELOWNA, B.C.) - There was and is, A CAUSE, prior to the big bang.

The prominent scientist Stephen Hawking warned humanity that, “We’re acting with reckless indifference to the future on planet earth. It will be difficult to avoid disaster in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand or million.”

Michael Shermer Debunks the `19 Hijackers` Conspiracy Theory!

Many, though not all, of Shermer's points are at least partially valid, but they must be applied evenhandedly to all theories about any given historical event.

(LONE ROCK, Wisc.) - As Anthony Hall says, Michael Shermer isn't a real economics professor - he just plays one on TV.

But that doesn't mean he's always wrong. In a recent Scientific American article, Shermer gives us many reasons to think that the Official Conspiracy Theory of 9/11 is "likely to be untrue."

Robot Restaurant Opens in China

The restaurant glibly advertises: "With two robot receptionists and a full robotic wait staff, the Dalu Rebot Restaurant is a great place to grab a bite and get closer to your future."

(CHICAGO) - The current population of China is estimated to be in the neighborhood of 1.355 billion people.

Clean Water Never

Running Out Of Fresh Water and Arable Land, Running Out Of Time...

(LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.) - For OMO, a pantheistic heathen and infidel, there’s only one sin: Matricide.

Time to Reconsider Rio Grande Management?

The 2002 crisis may have come and gone, but the issues shaping the future of the Rio Grande...

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - If there is anything the US and Mexico have in common, it is the meandering boundary between two neighbors; the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo river.

From its Colorado headwaters to the Gulf of Mexico, the Rio Grande is habitat for a plethora of animal and plant species, including migratory birds arriving from far to the north for winter refuge.

How to Become Immortal: Upload your Mind

Can brain uploading be achieved within 40 years? Sooner, say some experts.

(CHICAGO) - According to Ian Pearson, a British futurist, death will be a thing of the past by 2050.

Pearson is one of many futurists, cybernetic experts and artificial intelligence researchers whose thoughts are converging on the same basic idea: Why not upload everything that's in the brain—everything that makes a person who they are—into a computer and then download it again into a new body?

Movie Breaks All Rules Exposing Cancer Origins

New film on the reality of your life and cancer; also catch it in Deutch: Krebs und die Ursachen: Ein Film bricht alle Regeln

(SALEM / PARIS) - I think the new film Idiot Cycle that delivers the goods on the world's top cancer causing culprits, could easily have been titled "The Business of Cancer"- as it so fully divulges the dark and dirty side of companies like Monsanto and Dow.

The whole world is fairly screwed for the long run, and it all has red, white and blue paint.

Addressing TV Professor Michael Shermer`s Unscientific Analysis

Canadian professor counters Shermer's watered down response in Scientific American article to 9/11 realities.

(ALBERTA) - I am responding to Michael Shermer's most recent column, wherein your regular columnist misrepresents my positions and my spoken intervention when he was at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta Canada.

For starters he wrongly quotes me as saying I accused him of being a disgrace to the economy whereas I clearly said Mr. Shermer is a disgrace to the academy.

The Greatest Star Discovery

Most of the exoplanets that have been discovered are Jupiter-like gas giants.

(LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.) - Perhaps the greatest scientific discovery in the last 15 years has been the identification of planets revolving around stars outside our solar system. Over 500 extrasolar planets or exoplanets have been discovered orbiting nearby stars.

Virtually everywhere astronomers look carefully at nearby stars, planets are observed.

George Fox University’S Engineering Program Hosts Engineering Competition

Annual event serves as showcase for freshman engineering projects

(Newberg, Oregon) - George Fox University’s engineering degree program will host its annual engine competition early next month, when freshmen students showcase the projects they have built as part of their engineering major.

The university’s seventh annual “Wobble-Off” competition is scheduled from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Ron Gregory Atrium in the Edwards-Holman Science Center on the school’s Newberg, Ore., campus.