I've recently taken up breakdancing, Swing and African Dance. These three very unique dance styles have common origins, as this video shows ( Read more... )

The unheralded "Galileo of the 20th century", Halton Arp, has proven that the universe is not expanding. The Big Bang theory is based on the assumption that redshift in astronomical objects always means recessional velocity (speed something is moving away). But Arp discovered that high and low redshift objects are sometimes connected by a bridge ( Read more... )

The word ‘virus’ comes from the Latin for a poisonous liquid, and before that from the Sanskrit for the same. The hunt for them started when, towards the end of the 19th century, it was suggested that invisible living particles much smaller than bacteria might cause the epidemic illnesses for which no bacterial cause could be found ( Read more... )

Astrophysicist Hannes Alfvén first proposed his theory of “electric galaxies” in 1981. Galaxies and their motions resemble a homopolar motor more than they do anything else. A homopolar motor operates because electric current creates a magnetic field, which causes a metal disc to spin at a rate directly proportional to the supplied current ( Read more... )

"the conservative, upper-class naturalists who founded WWF [in 1961] did not have a problem with approaching oil companies for funding…WWF’s earliest corporate sponsor was the petrochemical giant Royal Dutch/Shell. In 1961 it gave WWF-UK the remarkable sum of £10,000 ( Read more... )

Throw a stone in a lake and watch he waves propagate away from the point of impact. Listen to a distant sound that has traveled to you from its source. Shake a rope and watch the waves travel down the rope. Tune in a distant radio station, the radio waves have traveled outward from the station to you. Watch the waves in the ocean as they travel ( Read more... )

Harlyn Geronimo, the famous warrior's great-grandson, and other descendants are suing Yale University and the secret society known as the Order of Skull & Bones, claiming Geronimo's skull was stolen back in 1918 by Yale students, members of the secret order. One of the alleged grave-robbers: Yalie Prescott Bush, the father and grandfather of ( Read more... )

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Randy: "Ready to get back to the point-by-point? I mean, it really does look like you're doing your darndest to avoid it ( Read more... )