Archive for 'Science' Category
Why do people laugh at creationists?
5 December 2007The YouTube user Thunderf00t has this 11 part series called “Why do people laugh at creationists?” In the videos, he uses Creationists theories against themselves and proves with scientific data evolution, no global flood, water on other planets, and other popular topics between Creationists and people with common sense. Note, this is not [...]
Codiac RCMP to try nitrogen-filled car tires
26 April 2007Some arguments for nitrogen-filled tires just don’t make any sense. Like the argument that you don’t have to fill up your tires as often with nitrogen as you would with regular air. Air is free and nitrogen is $5 a tire!
Codiac RCMP to try nitrogen-filled car tires
RCMP in the Moncton area are filling [...]
Feb. 24, 1582: Mark the Date
24 February 2007My son’s birthday falls on Leap Year. He is having his birthday tomorrow.
Wired News: Feb. 24, 1582: Mark the Date
1582: The Gregorian calendar is decreed in a papal bull by its namesake, Pope Gregory XIII.
The Gregorian calendar was devised by Italian doctor and chronologist Aloysius Lilius, primarily as a way of getting the various [...]
Neanderthal bone gives DNA clues
26 November 2006We are all monkeys!
Neanderthal bone gives DNA clues - CNN.com
A bone fragment that scientists had initially ignored has begun to yield secrets of the Neanderthal genome, launching a new way to learn about the stocky and muscular relative of modern humans, scientists say.
Genetic material from the bone has let researchers identify more than a million [...]