What’s In Our Water: The Science of Water Quality and Testing
AuditoriumLiquid water is so essential to life as we know it that when we look for life beyond our planet we always look for water. What is it about water that all life on Earth needs it? What is ‘pure’ water? Is water without anything in it safe to drink? What is the difference between […]
How has freedom of speech or press, helped or hampered science?
FiresideHow has freedom of speech or press, helped or hampered science? “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” -George Orwell “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” -S.G. Tallentyre, The Friends […]
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The Lighthouse CaféOn Expectation and Prediction of Events
AuditoriumON EXPECTATION and PREDICTION OF EVENTS with PROOF THAT LARGE NUMBERS RULE eventually... Every event, and configuration of events in the Universe is something of an accident arising from RANDOM arrangements, and secondarily, self-organizing complexity can occur. Biological evolution has selected for increasingly intricate and efficient neuro-processing by which living things can fulfil basic needs […]