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The bright surrounding ring is atmospheric haze above Titan, the largest Moon of Saturn. This image was captured by the robotic Cassini spacecraft.
Should Manning be found guilty or innocent?
I just got back from counseling at Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times (CRMFGT) in southern California. For those of you who are not familiar with CRMFGT, it’s a camp […]
Reza Aslan has to explain The Genetic Fallacy to idiot and FoxNews.com interviewer Lauren Green.
A new law in China that stipulates adult children must visit their parents "often" has stirred debate among the country's political leaders and those charged with caring for their parents.
We’re not short of things we can believe in. 
Churches can create the context in which sociability can be made safe and expressed. 
The Microbial Academy of Sciences is an academy where microbes would be in a position to study the cosmos. 
Plants are able to perform photosynthesis and therefore, plants are in a position to enjoy cinematography, to enjoy films since the essence of film is light. 
A new trade pact between the United States and European Union aims to create a new united western front to hedge against a world whose power is shifting to the east.
During my time in the Department of Defense we had to and did in fact give military commanders enormous freedom and flexibility. 
I think that the United States is vulnerable for many reasons. 
NASA's Cassini orbiter has spent 8 years taking pictures of Saturn's rings and moons, resulting in 200,000 pictures, and this wonderful video montage below. 
You can become a crazy cat lady if you abandon actual people in your environment and just focus on your pets or your stuffed animals or your live doll or whatever you have.  
Fox News has really outdone itself this time, if that is even possible anymore. In a move that recalls the worst of McCarthy era Communist paranoia, anchor Lauren Green completely […]
Chinese developer Zhang Yue is planning to build the world's next tallest building, dubbed "Sky City", which as the name suggests will be a self-contained city, holding 30,000 people.
The microship is pervasive and ubiquitous in our lives more than we realize. 
Walter, we hardly knew you. When I saw that American artist Walter De Maria had died at the age of 77 on July 25th, my mind’s eye immediate pictured The […]
      We sometimes get risk wrong. We fear some things more than the evidence says we need to, and some things less than the evidence says we should. […]
In this video, Former Army Staff Sgt. Glen Lehman demonstrates the progress of brain-interfacing prosthetic devices.