Category: Knowledge
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Secret paths in the snow. Long gone...
Paths of Inuit which passed from generation to generation orally. (1, 2) Valuable knowledge, with no books. Primitive people full of wisdom. Show respect you arrogant modern man. Bow. Listen. Or freeze to death.
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Old knowledge... in "fairy tales"...
Moviegoers were recently treated to "Noah," an epic story of bravery and sacrifice from the Old Testament, a saga in which the titular character takes on the divine mission to build an ark to save creation from an apocalyptic deluge. Outside the big screen, speculation has swirled for decades that the leftovers of Noah's Ark…
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Black holes. Magnetism. Fields.
A new study of supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies has found magnetic fields play an impressive role in the systems' dynamics. In fact, in dozens of black holes surveyed, the magnetic field strength matched the force produced by the black holes' powerful gravitational pull. (1) Magnetic fields seem to be everywhere. It…
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Mimicking apes, Knowing humans...
NEED to learn a new language but would rather watch TV shows instead? A new software app aims to let you do both at once. Once downloaded, Fleex extracts the subtitle data in video footage stored on your computer or online – whether it's a movie in the language you want to learn or…
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Paley, Darwin, the interconnection of ideas, Truth...
William Paley is a 19th-century theologian best known today for his argument supporting intelligent design: Something as complex as a mechanical watch clearly would not exist without a creator. Thus we can infer that the intricacy of our bodies — and those of all creatures — is the work of God. One might be surprised…
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