Popular Posts

• Earthcam: Watching the World From Orbit

  The Latest Available Pictures From Space *Produced in cooperation with NASA *Showcases Earth’s most spectacular images from orbiting satellites *Includes over 250 color photos graphically depicting climate changes, pollution, population growth and more For the past 40 years, satellites have been sent into space to look back at amazing planet Earth. Scientists, using the most [...]

• METEOROLOGY (UPDATED w/LINKED TOC)

  These four bodies are fire, air, water, earth. Fire occupies the highest place among them all, earth the lowest, and two elements correspond to these in their relation to one another, air being nearest to fire, water to earth. The whole world surrounding the earth, then, the affections of which are our subject, is made [...]

• Don’t Know Much About the Universe: Everything You Need to Know About Outer Space but Never Learned (Don’t Know Much About…)

  Who dug those canals on Mars? What was the biblical star of Bethlehem? Were the pyramids built by extraterrestrials? From the ancients who charted the heavens to Star Trek, The X-files, and Apollo 13, outer space has intrigued people through the ages. Yet most of us look up at the night sky and feel totally [...]

• The Hole in the Universe: How Scientists Peered over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything

  An adventure into the heart of Nothing by bestselling author K. C. Cole. Once again, acclaimed science writer K. C. Cole brings the arcane and acad-emic down to the level of armchair scientists in The Hole in the Universe, an entertaining and edifying search for nothing at all. Open the newspaper on any given day [...]

• From Science to God

  The Mystery of Consciousness and the Meaning of Light is the story of Peter Russells lifelong exploration into the nature of consciousness. Blending physics, psychology, and philosophy, he leads us to a new worldview in which consciousness is as fundamental to the cosmos as space, time, and matter. He shows how all the ingredients for [...]