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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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…
Odyssey
a journey without end
Odyssey 