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Star Wars vs. Star Trek
Literature

The Force is not magic

The Star Wars vs. Star Trek debate is one that has been going on for decades. Recently, however, with the impending release of The Force Awakens and a new Star Trek movie coming out next July in time for the franchise’s 50th anniversary, the debate has been renewed quite a bit. Fuel has been added to the fire by statements from prominent science advocates like Neil […]

Albert Einstein
Literature

Einstein’s manuscripts digitized

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem recently announced that it is digitizing more than 80,000 manuscripts by Albert Einstein and making them publicly available via its Einstein Archives Onlinesite. According to this FOX News article: The portal now offers a close look at an initial 2,000 documents, or 7,000 pages total, from Einstein’s personal and public

Literature

Why science is often inconclusive: Or, how vampires really exist

Some dude who has way too much time on his hands says he has “scientifically proven” that vampires cannot exist. Legend has it that vampires feed on human blood and once bitten a person turns into a vampire and starts feasting on the blood of others. Efthimiou’s debunking logic: On Jan 1, 1600, the human

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