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The Future Is Ours

By October 2, 2012March 20, 2018

Check out this cool video, which presents an optimistic and heroic vision of the future:

The Future is Ours from Michael Marantz on Vimeo.

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Searching for Goldilocks
ByMetanexus Editors December 3, 2011December 3, 2011

At least four times in the last few years, astronomers have announced they have found planets orbiting other stars in the sweet spot known as the habitable zone — not too hot, not too cold — where water and thus perhaps life are possible. In short, a so-called Goldilocks planet fit to be inhabited by…

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Future Science in Past Visions
ByEditor September 1, 2011June 7, 2020

Buy online through Amazon: Indic Visions in an Age of Science by Varadaraja V. Raman (New York, NY: Metanexus, 2011). or Download the book for free as a PDF. Introduction The thinkers of the ancient world were wise in many ways, so we find much wisdom in their musings and writings. The myths of India…

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Essay | Intelligent Design and Its Critics

America’s Obsession with Design: A Response to Wolfhart Pannenberg – Part 1
Byadmin June 5, 2001March 22, 2018

In 1994, I participated at a C. S. Lewis summer conference at Queens’ College, Cambridge. The event was sponsored by the C. S. Lewis Foundation (Redlands, California) and hosted by John Polkinghorne. A portion of the conference was devoted to design, and proponents of design who spoke at the conference including Phillip Johnson, Stephen Meyer,…

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Unique Microbes Found in Extreme Environment
ByMetanexus Editors June 11, 2012June 11, 2012

Researchers who were looking for organisms that eke out a living in some of the most inhospitable soils on Earth have found a hardy few. A new DNA analysis of rocky soils in the martian-like landscape on some volcanoes in South America has revealed a handful of bacteria, fungi, and other rudimentary organisms, called archaea,…

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Origins of ‘Mile Markers’ for Expansion of Universe
ByMetanexus Editors November 21, 2012November 21, 2012

A study using a unique new instrument on the world’s largest optical telescope has revealed the likely origins of especially bright supernovae that astronomers use as easy-to-spot “mile markers” to measure the expansion and acceleration of the universe. In a paper to appear in the Astrophysical Journal, researchers describe observations of recent supernova 2011fe that…

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UN Chief Blames Rich for Warming
ByMetanexus Editors December 6, 2012December 6, 2012

Rich countries are to blame for climate change and should take the lead in forging a global climate pact by 2015, a deadline that “must be met,” the head of the United Nations said. On the sidelines of international climate talks in Qatar, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said it was “only fair and reasonable that…

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