Google “death” and get nearly 700,000,000 million hits – there seems a fair interest among us in this subject, more for example than in “sex,” which elicits about 80,000,000 hits. Put “sex and death” together in a Google search and you’re down in the noise level compared to the Google hits for each [read more]
Category Archives: Articles
Science from Away: The Origin of Death
June 11, 2009 – 2:26 pm
Science from Away: Youth Replaces Age
June 11, 2009 – 2:22 pm
What if someone offers you a deal on a beautiful apartment in an ideal location where you always wanted to live? The apartment is occupied by a 90 year old woman. If you pay the rent until she dies you will then own the apartment. Andre Raffray is only 47, so he [read more]
Science from Away: Death to the “sweet tooth.”
March 3, 2009 – 10:59 pm
In most of what you bother to inspect on supermarket shelves, sugar is a popular and cheap chemical added to our food. In many foods, it has actually become the major component. I took a walk around the corner and grabbed some items in a 24 hour grocery. In all of these, ‘”sugar” [read more]
Science from Away: By the Numbers
February 2, 2009 – 2:15 am
1 - A Canadian citizen living in New Hampshire, Mark Steyn, is a prominent political commentator and cultural critic who writes for many Canadian and American magazines and newspapers. In a column for Imprimis, a publication of a conservative American college, Steyn wrote a column under the title “Is Canada’s Economy a Model [read more]
Science from Away: What might they look like?
December 21, 2008 – 1:37 am
On September 5, 1977 a fifty meter high rocket weighing 1.4 million pounds, enveloped in smoke and flame, slowly lifted from the ground and with increasing speed rose into the skies from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. This huge effort succeeded in carrying an object, which weighs about as much as [read more]