We have all had in our lifetime the experience of trying to talk someone out of making the same bad decisions they have made in the past that led them to pain and trouble. In spite of all of the logical good reasons we use, while saying they agree with us, they nevertheless have continued to make the same bad decisions again. In fact, if we are honest with ourselves, we do the very same thing. We repeat conduct which…
In 2014 American science produced a documentary television series Cosmos: A Space Time Odyssey featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson. The information from the documentary was startling. Here are just a few of the facts from the program. Astronomers have determined that the age of the universe is approximately 13.8 billion years old. Astronomers on earth look with their telescopes some 13.8 billion light years in every direction as observable limitation of what can be seen but not of what might really be beyond. Scientists know that the…
Lita and I spent a great week in Hawaii last week before she has knee replacement in early February. I had a chance to do a lot of reading and one book I enjoyed was "A Short Hstory of Nearly Eerything by Bill Bryson. It covered science from universe to the ocean and the world of atoms. Here are some random passages which were impressive to me. You can summarize the scientific knowledge by saying our earth is estimated to be…
I must start with the admission that math and I never got along in school However, as I experienced life I realized how unavoidable and important it is and my inadequate knowledge about fundamentals. This explains why I was interested in reading in a book about astrophysics a discussion of Pi as new knowledge for me. As every school child knows, but which had escaped me, it represents the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet. As you all know, It…
Discover magazine covered the year in science this month and had many interesting reports. Here are a few. One of them was about Terry Wallis who suffered severe brain damage in an auto accident and for nineteen years was in a speechless, minimally conscious state until one day in 2003 he suddenly called his mother “mom.” After recovering speech he regained some limb use. Doctors used a technique to study his brain and found that it had developed…
