Odyssey

a journey without end

  • Cepheid variable stars: the perfect natural oscillators

    Cepheid variable stars: the perfect natural oscillators

    What is a Cepheid variable star? Cepheid variable stars as any astronomers here know are God’s gift to cosmology – almost a design argument by themselves since they’re so incredibly useful to human star-gazers. Why? – because they tell you exactly how far away they are. Cepheids pulsate in brightness, and the frequency of their […]

    Phil Salmon

    July 22, 2018
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  • Odyssey from Africa and the Adventures of Ipiki

    Odyssey from Africa and the Adventures of Ipiki

      Sixty thousand years ago a small group of people changed the world. Odyssey from Africa tells their story. It is a myth of human origins based on fact, in a narrative poem aimed at all ages. Fleeing a village witch-hunt, a fisherman with his wife and twin children embark on a flight for survival, […]

    Phil Salmon

    January 12, 2018
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  • When science had no shame: the poem “Passage to India” by Walt Whitman

    When science had no shame: the poem “Passage to India” by Walt Whitman

    A new Prohibition? Are we living in a new prohibition era? A generation of straight-laced environmental puritans have been teaching us and our children to be ashamed of science and technology. The internal combustion engine, instead of an empowering transport technology connecting the world, is a guilty emitter of a demonized CO2. We are forbidden […]

    Phil Salmon

    June 5, 2017
    Uncategorized
    Innocence, Passage to India, Poetry, Prohibition, Science, Science and religion, Walt Whitman, Wonder of science
  • Did the first humans come from Greece, not Africa?

    Did the first humans come from Greece, not Africa?

    A new oldest human fossil has been found, and surprisingly it was in southern Europe – Greece and Bulgaria, not Africa…

    Phil Salmon

    June 5, 2017
    Uncategorized
    Africa, Bulgaria, Evolution, Greece, Human origins, Mediterranean, Messinian, Paleontology, Sahara
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