In a 2017 interview, Benjamin Zeller, author of Heaven’s Gate: America’s UFO Religion and Assistant Professor of Religion at Lake Forest College, speculates that “the same demographic forces (that helped spawn Heaven’s Gate) are still at work. People are looking for tru...
Some scholars identify this period as the beginning of a continuous evolution of a distinct culture, meaning that by 2,000 A.D., Korea has been developing as a distinct people for 5,000-6,000 years. The spread of rice farming reached northern areas of the Peninsula by 1500 B.C., south...
a trove of 270 gigabytes of data reportedly leaked from 200 police departments, which was released publicly in June. While unclassified, the document is “law-enforcement (LE) sensitive” according to the Feds, meaning that it has been distributed internally within...
By the 1930s, Vernadsky was working on a series of papers, under the general title "Problems of Biogeochemistry," which sum- marized his mature views on the role and meaning of the biosphere and on man's increasingly preponderant role 3. Ibid., p. 30. 6 ...
All of “Western” Europe (and North America) have all tried to get Russia to develop a “real economy”, meaning One Exactly Like Ours. Of course the “Ours” part depends on who is doing the speaking or dictating or invading. The truer terror is that Moscow is more Eastern than Weste...
In an article on wind powered generators last week a science & technology writer showed himself in need of remedial education in basic literacy:"Meanwhile, 14GW of installed capacity puts us second in the world behind China," he burbled The problem here is inability to understand the meaning ...
aA listener from Venezuela sent us a question about the meaning of the expression mayday. He wrote that he often hears this expression in movies. [translate] aMayday has nothing to do with the month of May. It comes from the French expressions "venez m'aider," or "m'aidez," which ...
somehow could condone some failures. Technology was so expensive that people would prefer to commit themselves to pay for a system and deal with it until it was completely worn out. Also, there wasn’t much interoperability/compatibility with other systems, meaning systems wouldn’t talk each oth...
Dr. Greg Bonito at Michigan State University named this new truffle Tuber canirevelatum, meaning the ‘dog-found’ truffle in honour of Monza and other dogs who look for truffles. The work was published in the journal Mycologia. Voiding your bowels can improve cognitive performance To maximize...