On This Day in Science History – December 4 – Luigi Galvani (About Chemistry)

December 4th marks the passing of Luigi Galvani. Galvani was an Italian physician who first identified electrical activity in living tissue. Towards the end of the 18th Century, one of the newest and cutting edge scientific fields of study was electricity….

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
 - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The price of global warming science is eternal vigilance (The Curious Wavefunction)

John Tierney of the NYT weighs in on the hacked emails and accurately nails itIve long thought that the biggest danger in climate research is the temptation for scientists to lose their skepticism and go along with the consensus about global warming. Thats…

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One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
 - Albert Einstein

On This Day in Science History – December 1 – Antarctic Treaty (About Chemistry)

December 1st is the anniversary of the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959. Twelve governments agreed to set aside the uninhabited continent of Antarctica as a scientific reserve. The treaty outlined that no country could claim sovereignty on the continent,…

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The Creation speaketh an universal language, independently of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they may be. It is an ever-existing original, which every man can read. It cannot be forged; it cannot be counterfeited; it cannot be lost; it cannot be altered; it cannot be suppressed. It does not depend upon the will of man whether it shall be published or not; it publishes itself from one end of the earth to the other. It preaches to all nations and to all worlds; and this word of God reveals to man all that is necessary for man to know of God.
 - Thomas Paine