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Abiotic Petroleum
This article describing some of the history of the oil industry and espousing an alternative theorem for the origin of oil made for interesting reading. Whether it is true or not is still a matter for debate, but I found it fascinating.
Russian-Ukrainian theory of deep, abiotic petroleum
And the author is a kiwi apparently!
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Black is the new Black
as per this article (Source Stuff.co.nz)
"US [scientists] have made the darkest material on Earth, a substance so black it absorbs more than 99.9 per cent of light.
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The substance has a total reflective index of 0.045 per cent - which is more than three times darker than the nickel-phosphorous alloy that now holds the record as the world's ( Read more... ) -
Go Go Archimedes!
(gible will probably be interested in this...)
It seems that ole Isaac didn't invent Calculus after all...
Secrets of Calculus hid in prayer book for more than a millennium
"An ancient prayer book was discovered to contain notes from Archimedes, showing that the Greek mathematician already began to discover the principles of calculus more than a ( Read more... )