A visual meditation on the numbers that design nature
By Cristóbal Vila NATURE BY NUMBERS from Cristóbal Vila on Vimeo. Hat tip: Philip Cunningham
Would Hooker, Boyle, Pascal, and Newton all be out of work today?
Stock up on Darwin for the holidays! Okay, well…
Michael Egnor: How can mind interact with matter?
What if epigenetics turns out to be useful in treating disability?
Has another hole been found in the standard model of the universe?
The Man With Two Fingerprints also has his donor’s semen
At Nature: Is 44 kya Indonesian rock painting the oldest mythological art?
Come to think of it, there is no necessary relationship between atheism and Darwinism
The FFC -Cambridge (Metalysis) Metal . . . esp. Ti . . . reduction process
This video summarises a direct, molten salt based electro-reduction process for metals, especially Titanium: (Titanium, of course, is a rather abundant but hard to win “super-metal.” See Wiki here for a more detailed summary. The process extends to other metals and of course turns on having abundant electrical energy.) Let me add an illustration of the electrolytic cell: . . . with a broader overview, 2004: . . . nb here on universality, pardon the resolution, red — already in kg q’ties by 2004, blue achieved, grey, suitable . . . observe esp. not only Fe, Al etc but Si, Ge, Ga [not As though], W [= Tungsten, aka Wolfram], U, Th, Pu, as well as the rare earths that Read More ›
Please Support UD This Year
As I have mentioned before, an “aglet” is that little plastic sheath at the end of a shoestring. And here at UD, our budget is so small we say we get by on an “aglet budget.” We would have to have a lot more money to say we are getting by on a shoestring budget. Which brings me to our annual holiday fundraising drive. If you have benefited from our News Desk’s tireless chasing of the latest ID-related happenings, or KF’s in-depth analysis of the fundamentals, or gpuccio’s scientific insights, or any of our other UD features, please consider a donation to help fund our efforts. The Donate button is there on the right of the homepage under the search Read More ›