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Last week, Gov. Walker declined to answer Englishman’s question about whether he, Scott Waker, believed in evolution. Today, in the Journal Sentinel, one learns that Assembly Speaker Robin Vos does...
View ArticleWatch Chimps Speak with Scottish Accents
One might have trouble working out all the implications of British scientists’ findings that chimpanzees adopt the accents of other chimps when in a new environment. ABC News reports that After growing...
View ArticleThe Cold Fusion Problem
In the late 1980s, scientists Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons told the world that they had a device that demonstrated the energy-producing consequences of a nuclear reaction, but at room...
View ArticleTest Flight of Blue Origin Spaceship
Blue Origin, a private spaceflight company, tested its New Shepard spaceship yesterday. The capsule tested properly, but the engineers were unable to recover the rocket booster (as they had hoped...
View ArticleDrawing Closer to Pluto
As the New Horizons spacecraft approaches Pluto, more about that world is evident, including its actual color —
View ArticleLive Coverage and Background on the New Horizons Mission to Pluto
America’s New Horizons probe is today at its closest point to Pluto, photographing and taking other measurements to learn more about that distant world. It’s much to America’s credit as a civilized...
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