Revolutionaries


James Clerk Maxwell (1831 – 1879) was a Scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist. His most significant achievement was the development of the electromagnetic theory which revolutionized the understanding of electricity, magnetism, and even optics.

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Which Revolution was more Important?

The Reformation (1500)
The Scientific Revolution (1600)
The Industrial Revolution (1850)
The Green Revolution (1950)

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In the News

Kids Learn About Climate Change (Pittsburgh BoE)
Alternatives to BPA Containers Not Easy to Find (Washington Post)
U.S. Turns to Sweden as Model in Nuclear Waste Storage (LA Times)
Link Between Autism and Vaccines Retracted (BBC)
FDA Says It's Unable to Regulate BPA
Reversing Itself, FDA Expresses Concerns Over Health Risks from BPA (Washington Post)

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Links

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Physics Central
Evolution @ Berkeley
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Climate Questions Answered

[-5 | 133 | 0 | 1]   2009-11-02

Write an op-ed about climate change and you get a lot of emails and questions. Here are the answers!


Metastudies find Metacellphones cause Metacancer.

[0 | 132 | 0 | 4]   2009-11-01

The LA Times has recently reported on a metastudy that finds cell phone users suffer 10 to 30% more cancer than nonusers. How well does the claim stand up to scrutiny?


Getting Serious About Climate Change

[7 | 192 | 0 | 0]   2009-09-27

Its time we grew up and faced the facts: climate change is real and its man made. By measuring the amount of CO2 we have put in the air and the rise in global temperature, we can estimate future climate changes. The results are not pretty.


The Science Diet

[17 | 692 | 0 | 0]   2009-02-28

Forests have been felled and fortunes spent on diets and dieting. The money has been wasted and almost all the words are worthless drivel. Find the secrets to the only diet that really works. And its free!


Cell Phone Fraud Exposed

[15 | 731 | 0 | 1]   2008-09-01

The journal Science is reporting that two studies claiming that radiation from cell phones can cause DNA damage are fraudulent.


Cell Phone Paranoia Exposed

[3 | 670 | 0 | 0]   2008-08-07

The physics behind the interaction of radiation and matter tells us that cell phones cannot cause cancer. So why does the idea persist? We dig into the history of radiation and cancer to find out why.

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