Texas A&M University anthropology professor Dr. Vaughn Bryant displays the cast of an alleged footprint of Bigfoot. Feb. 11, 2009 | Last year when a couple of Georgia men claimed to possess a Bigfoot body on ice, a surprising number of news outlets ...
Have you ever wondered about the women featured in the Viagra commercials? Thought that perhaps the key to their sexual fulfillment does not lie in a treatment aimed at men? In an effort that is part quest for eternal youth (and the youthful ability to ...
1. Conventional wisdom says that Dutchman Hans Lippershey invented the telescope in 1608, but legend has it that the device was really invented three years earlier by kids playing with lenses in a spectacle-maker’s shop. That kind of stuff used to ...
Armed with a doctorate in physiological psychology, Eric Haseltine has explored the boundaries of perception and illusion in commercial projects ranging from flight simulators for Hughes Aircraft to virtual reality and special effects for Disney theme ...
1 This list is about black gold. Texas tea. Petroleum, or crude oil. Which is in no way related to the oils we eat or excrete. 2 If you are a creationist, crude oil was formed by thousands of years of heat and pressure applied to the carcasses of ...
The million-degree nuclear fusion powering a million-mile-wide star a million light-years away is a million snores to Time magazine’s science editor, Jeffrey Kluger. He would rather ponder guppies in a fishbowl. Kluger argues that humans are awed and ...
2 And Einstein didn’t call it relativity. The word never appears in his original 1905 paper, “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies,” and he hated the term, preferring “invariance theory” (because the laws of physics look the same to all ...
Throughout history, humans of many cultures have found approximately the same small set of sound frequencies musically appealing, as in the 12-note chromatic scale played on the black and white keys of a piano. The frequency of every note occurs in a ...
For the first time, physicists have observed in photons one of the weirdest and most basic phenomena in quantum mechanics: that field of physics where subatomic objects follow strange, unfamiliar laws. In the quantum world, particles like photons spend ...
Tucked away in the cabinets of Oliver Sacks’s Greenwich Village office are hundreds of small black notebooks, each filled with jottings and sketches, newspaper clippings, and photos. These are the accumulated reflections from a lifetime spent observing ...
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