Stephen Hawking with Jim Parsons on ’The Big Bang Theory.’ Stephen Hawking Movie and TV Appearances If there is such a thing as a rock-star scientist, Hawking embodied it. His forays into popular culture included guest appearances on The Simpsons, Star Trek: The Next Generation, a comedy ...
摘要:Is the pharmaceutical industry a dangerous and crooked business that federal and state authorities need to bring to heel? Should those who develop, market or prescribe drugs hang their heads in shame when faced with the stark reality of what they do to earn a living? Is Big Pharma in ...
direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when interrogating oneself, one pushes the inquiry only to the point at which one can no longer offer any opposition. Hence a good inquirer will be one who is ready in bringing forward the ...
One of the men who discovered this was out with his girl friend the night after he realized that nuclear reactions must be going on in the stars in order to make them shine. She said “Look at how pretty the stars shine!” He said, “Yes, and right now I am the only man in the...
early universe. Resolving the discrepancies – perhaps using results due out later this year from the Planck space telescope – might give a glimpse of physics from before the big bang. Or it might mean inflation is out, and that we actually have the first whiff of evidence forstring theo...
I have certainly met people who believe that being kind and supportive means always being in agreement or always saying yes, whereas I believe that this is more acting from a position of people pleasing and being nice. In contrast I believe that sometimes the kindest thing that you can do ...
@bigpapabriggs wants to know, on a scale from one to 10, how scared should i be of lyme disease? so as someone who's actually studied lyme disease for several decades, lyme disease is actually not as easy to get as you think. not only do you have to have the right species of ...
the people who did not smoke the joints tested positive for thc and said they felt a little high. when they just ventilated the room, the folks who did not smoke the joints said they didn't feel much and they also did not test positive for thc. whiffing the smell of cannabis as you...
It turned out that the pair had discovered the “afterglow” of the big bang – radiation emitted not long after the big bang, when the universe was very hot and dense. As the universe expanded, this high-energy radiation stretched into low-energy microwaves. The scientists won a Nobel Priz...
Matthiessen [1978] says that the Buddha “cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had wasted twenty years of his human existence in learning how to walk on water, when the ferryman might have taken him across for a small coin.” ...