Crazy Earthquake Facts Magnitude of 9.5 = around 60 million tonnes of TNT 1. There are about 500 000 earthquakes a year. Only about 100 000 of these can be felt and about 100 cause significant damage each year, the rest are recorde...
Maths “Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” Alice in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll was a fellow in mathematics at Christ Church college, Oxford....
Medical Science It is ironic that in the same year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA, some would have us ban certain forms of DNA medical research. Restricting medical research has very real human c...
Chemistry I do not know if I am mistaken, but it seems that one can obtain more truths, important to Humanity, from Chemistry than from any other Science. Samuel Hanemann ...
Energy & Fuels We've embarked on the beginning of the last days of the age of oil. Embrace the future and recognize the growing demand for a wide range of fuels or ignore reality and slowly, but surely, be left behind. Mik...
Space & Astronomy “From out there on the Moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitc...
History of Fuel If one thing changed us, it was discovering fire. We could cook food, which released more nutrients, so we became stronger and healthier. We didn't have to rely on animal skins to keep us warm, our caves had he...
Hot Spots of the Earth Hot spots are places within the mantle where rocks melt to generate magma. We know where the hot spots are by the amount of volcanic activity that happens there. We may see volcanoes form. Red-hot magma from th...
The Climate Hiatus Debunked Climate scientists use 'modelling' (complex software programs) to predict future global conditions. When the actual conditions don't match the predictions, theories are rapidly proposed. Average global tempera...
