Archive for the ‘Science’ Category

What Really Killed the Dinosaurs?

For more than 150 million years, dinosaurs dominated Earth. They were so successful that other animal groups – mammals included – had little chance of playing anything more than secondary roles.

Then, 65 million years ago, the dinosaurs vanished from the world forever. Did they meet a quick and catastrophic end, or did they fade away gradually?

In the search for answers to what killed the dinosaurs, scientists have looked beyond fossils. Geological evidence also holds clues and has contributed to many hypotheses, working explanations of how dinosaurs may have become extinct.

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The Day We Learned To Think

Understanding of humans’ earliest previous typically arrives from learning fossils. They inform us a lot of what we all know concerning the men and women who lived prior to us.

There’s 1 factor fossils can’t inform us; at what level did we cease residing day-to-day and begin to believe symbolically, to symbolize suggestions about our atmosphere and the way we could alter it?

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T. Rex – Warrior or Wimp?

Tyrannosaurus rex – it’s the scariest, meanest, most bewitching dinosaur of them all. Children are captivated by the sheer savagery with the teeth.

Experts marveled in the power of its biteten times much more powerful than anything we know today. Movie makers made millions out of the terror it inspired. But could our picture of this monster be completely wrong?

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Birth of the Earth

Our Earth was spinning pretty quick when it was spit from the Sun like a molten glob 4 and 1 50 percent billion a long time in the past inside the original explosion.

Venus was spinning in an reverse course when it was spit out and is nonetheless performing the exact same.

The Earth settled down in a very pretty lucky orbit for that existence of lifestyle. At ninety three million miles distance from the Sun it receives just concerning the appropriate quantity of radiant power.

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How the Universe Works

Have you ever wondered exactly how our Universe is put collectively? How is it built? And how it really works? This can be ultimate manual for the Cosmos will display as never prior to the internal workings of our planet, the Solar Program, the galaxies and also the Universe itself.

This sequence investigates the nuts and bolts of our cosmos, exploring a entire variety of fascinating celestial phenomena and how they came to be the way they are.

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For All Mankind

For All Mankind tells the true story of the 24 men who travelled to the moon as the entire US watched in awe.

Sorting through nearly one hundred hours of film and sound recordings recovered from NASA – shot between December 1968 and November 1972, in the heyday of the space programme – director Al Rienart has pieced together a seamless documentary commemorating man’s landing on the moon.

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What Darwin Never Knew

Earth teems having a staggering selection of animals, such as 9,000 sorts of birds, 28,000 sorts of fish, and far more than 350,000 species of beetles alone.

What explains this explosion of residing creatures-1.four million diverse species discovered up to now, with maybe an additional 50 million far more to go? The supply of life’s countless types was a profound mystery till Charles Darwin’s innovative thought of organic choice, which he confirmed could aid clarify the gradual improvement of existence on earth.

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Oldest Mummies in the World

When we believe of well-known mummies, our minds naturally flip for the legendary Valley in the Kings in Egypt, last resting location for that wonderful Pharaohs and their queens. But exactly where would be the world’s oldest mummies? The reply: Chile!

About eight,000 many years in the past, the small recognized fishing communities in the Chinchorro started mummifying their lifeless inside a sophisticated procedure that belies their in any other case primitive methods. With out the signature elaborate pottery, jewelery or textiles so widespread within the grander Inca, Mayan and Toltec civilizations, these humble folks desiccated their deceased kin in an elaborate procedure prior to burial in loved ones “plots”.

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Facts of Evolution

If you would like to understand what the scientists learn about evolution, then right here it’s.

An huge breadth of facts, assimilated, compressed, and congealed into an very easily understood, visually irresistible presentation.

Facts Of Evolution (created by the Cassiopeia Mission) has layer upon layer of proof that helps make frequent descent and macro-evolution inescapable.

Universal frequent descent will be the idea that every single dwelling issue on earth is associated to every single other dwelling issue on earth… genealogically, genetically associated. All modern day organisms are descended from 1 unique species.

Posted by Sara on November 23rd, 2010 No Comments

The Ultimate Guide: Pyramids

Several thousand many years have passed because their building, and still, the enigma from the pyramids is not fully understood.

The structures have survived all these many years of normal weathering and damage inflicted by contemporary mankind.

Via the magic of pc simulation, the viewer can expertise the pyramids as they should have appeared to the historical Egyptians who built them.

Ultimate Guide: Pyramids also offers data on how the pyramids may have already been made.

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