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67 pages of results. 641. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... America supposed to be contemporaneous, provide a couple of problems for palaeontologists. The dinosaurs appear to still exist 2 Myrs after they disappeared elsewhere, yet immediately above them are the remains of large mammals far more advanced than expected for that time. Perhaps a dating rethink is required. Life's a gas Scientific American April 1995, p. 17 Biologists were surprised years ago to find rich assemblages of animals living round thermal vents in the deep ocean. Now they have found similar assemblages relying on the energy from oil seeps in the Gulf of Mexico. Life appears capable of evolving to exploit almost any energy source. Mutations New Scientist 9.9 .95, p. 17, ...
642. The Importance of Outsiders in Science [Journals] [SIS Review]
... can there remain still undiscovered? However I consider one factor paramount. Many of the great breakthroughs in the 20th century have resulted not from any genuinely new idea but rather from the application of new technology to existing laws and theories. Indeed, the greatest advances in the 20th century have come in fields like atomic and particle physics, cellular biology and biochemistry, disciplines which use equipment which is too intricate and costly for outsiders and amateurs to assemble for themselves. A little aside here, but I cannot resist mentioning Arthur Koestler and his theory that Man is like a sleepwalker, stumbling on discoveries. Even when made from within mainstream science or from the heart of great institutions, ...
643. The Electric Universe [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . 50. W. Thornhill, Formation of Chondritic meteorites and the Solar System', Chronology & Catastrophism Review, Vol. X, 1988, pp. 49-56. 51. If Sansbury's model is correct then the simplistic Coulomb barrier model of the nucleus is inadequate. Electrostatic resonance effects open the door to a mechanism for cold fusion and biological transmutations as documented by Prof. Louis Kervran. 52. Referees are permitted by editors and learned societies to remain anonymous, a practice that has always seemed to me objectionable, if not indeed corrupt. Corrupt it certainly is in some cases. ', Home is Where the Wind Blows, Fred Hoyle, p. 159. 53 ...
644. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... by all branches of academia, says Dr Sullivan. Perhaps the single most trenchant observation made by the authors of this book - for they understood full well their efforts would be dismissed - is that, one day, our descendants may look back on our time and wonder how we could have made the colossal blunder of applying the model of biological evolution to the development of human culture. Evolution requires unimaginably long periods of time to work its effects, whereas human culture, stretching back as it does perhaps 50,000 years, represents a nano-second of the evolutionary clock. Yet because our models of human culture speak with confidence of its evolution', we remain steadfast in our ...
645. The Mixtec Tree of Origin [Journals] [Aeon]
... the tree, in the form of three arrows of increasing size, pointing toward the base." [21] Furst is of the opinion that the circles and arrows symbolize the female and male aspect of the birth tree. If this is true, one is tempted to throw in a von Däniken-like comment that perhaps this civilization understood the biology of eggs and sperm and used circles and arrows to portray this. However, taken as a whole, I feel that the artist was instead trying to show that the tree was a dramatic, constantly moving and changing object. Fred Jueneman and Dwardu Cardona have both remarked on the appearance and pyrotechnics of the Saturnian configuration. [22 ...
646. Catastrophes: the Diluvial Evidence [Journals] [SIS Review]
... California Press, 1988. 17. M.J .S . Rudwick, Georges Cuvier, Fossil Bones and Geological Catastrophes, University of California Press, 1997. 18. T. Palmer, Controversy - Catastrophism and Evolution: the Ongoing Debate, Plenum Press, New York, 1999. 19. E. Mayr, The Growth of Biological Thought, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1982. 20. S.J . Gould, The Flamingo's Smile, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1986, pp. 114-124. 21. E. Lurie, Louis Agassiz, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1988. 22. C. Hapgood, The Path of ...
647. An Investigation into the Reality of the Early Medieval Dark Age [Journals] [SIS Review]
... go beyond the suspicion with which outsiders are often regarded. The onus is on Niemitz and his colleagues to persuade others that collaboration would be worthwhile but that is asking a great deal, given the extremely firm basis, as I now see it, of the existing paradigm. Let me make my own position absolutely clear. I am a biologist with no professional interest in history, who began this investigation in a receptive frame of mind (as those present at the Nov. 1998 meeting can testify) and with little previous knowledge of the issues raised by Niemitz. If his paper failed to convince me of any need for a chronological revision, once I had familiarised myself with ...
648. "Heaven and Earth": Catastrophism in Hamlet [Journals] [Kronos]
... so unsettling that they are, to use Burgess' words, stamped forever in our brains and, even more, in our very loins.(85) The suggestion put forth is that events that impinge enormously and unforgettably upon human consciousness produce permanent memories in the brain that are then able to be genetically inherited. This concept makes conventional biologists shudder, but a form of it was propounded by Lamarck less than two centuries ago and a modified version is acquiring popularity today, despite official opprobrium.(86) It happens to be supported as well by virtually all archetypal and anthropological literary theory, not to mention most myth and religion. This is clearly what Burgess suggests in ...
649. Book Review/Thorne [Journals] [Aeon]
... months. Fortunately, all were eventually released. Yet Fritz discouraged his brother from coming to the US, citing loneliness and anonymity, whereupon Heinz ultimately became a British subject and worked on their atom bomb project. Still, during the early 1940s, London continued to theoretically investigate van der Waals forces, and even entered the theoretical lists in biology by responding to an article by Albert Szent-Györgyi and agreeing with him that there was much more of an interrelationship between quantum mechanics and biochemistry than had been theretofore demonstrated. By 1946, when London was invited to speak at the Cambridge Conference on Low Temperatures, he hoped to meet many of his old colleagues as well as several from the ...
650. On the Possibility of Instantaneous Shifts of the Poles [Journals] [Aeon]
... closely matches the rate at which DNA degrades. Bada thus realized that this might offer a cross-check in deciding whether the DNA in a fossil could really be ancient. If the aspartic acid in a sample would be found to be highly degraded, the possibility that the sample's DNA had remained intact would be very unlikely. Together with the molecular biologist Svante Pääbo of the University of Munich, Bada examined several samples supposedly dating from 50 to 40,000 years old. Some of these samples were known to contain contaminated DNA, others were believed to be uncontaminated. What they discovered was that when about 10% of the aspartic acid in a sample had broken down, the samples ...
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