In Kenneth Miller's book, Only a Theory, he talks about the fundamental concept underlying "intelligent design" and goes on to show how the fundamental concept is wrong, and not supported in biological research. The fundamental idea is that there are some aspects of...
We know that the Sichuan province earthquake destroyed enormous numbers of schools, and that many children died as a result. Andrew Revkin reported on his blog research being done by Santiago Pujol, an engineer at Purdue focusing on preventing just the kind of...
What should our students and citizens know about earthquake preparedness? Certainly, the earthquake in China is prompting us to be able to answer these questions. I've only experienced three earthquakes, once many years ago in Columbus, Ohio, years later in San...
The Sichuan earthquake that occurred in China was, according to geologists, was a two stage quake, with the total duration of about 2 minutes. According to geologists at Tsukuba University, the quake was movement along the Longmenshan Fault that moved earth in two...
The Sichuan earthquake that occurred last week in China was, according to geologists, was a two stage quake, with the total duration of about 2 minutes. According to geologists at Tsukuba University, the quake was movement along the Longmenshan Fault that moved earth...
A BBC article, China Anger over 'shoddy schools,' focused on the fact in some areas schools collapsed during the 7.9 Magnitude earthquake last week, while other buildings near the schools withstood the earthquake's devastating energy. Beichuan Middle School, in the...
