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Archivo de September 2008



New TV Show, The Mentalist, may have appeal to skeptics

Thursday, September 25th, 2008 | Por admin | Category Lead Articles

Simon Baker will star as The Mentalist, a man who uses his keen abilities of observation to solve crimes. He can pick up small clues and then synthesize them, allowing him to see the big picture in a case. It’s a bit like “House”, but for a detective and not a doctor. Follow this article to watch the first episode.



Back from the grave

Monday, September 22nd, 2008 | Por admin | Category Paranormal News

Research on near-death experiences is unlikely to find evidence that human consciousness can survive without a brain



Fish Fingers: Your Digits Used to Be Fins

Monday, September 22nd, 2008 | Por admin | Category Science News

An ancient fish sported something like fingers that were the precursors to our own digits, according to an analysis of a new fossil skeleton.
“It’s really the last piece of evidence to say fingers are not new. They were really present in fish,” said lead researcher Catherine Boisvert, an evolutionary biologist at Uppsala University in Sweden.
The [...]



Naples blood miracle is just a hoax

Monday, September 22nd, 2008 | Por admin | Category Lead Articles, Religion News

For centuries the faithful have gathered in their thousands to watch one of Christianity’s most enduring mysteries. But yesterday they were told that the “miracle of the blood” was an elaborate hoax.



Vatican professor dismayed at rejection of evolution by Christians

Monday, September 22nd, 2008 | Por admin | Category Religion News

A professor at a Vatican-sponsored university has expressed dismay that some Christians reject the theory of evolution.
Gennaro Auletta, who teaches at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University, told reporters that recent popes have “recognized the scientific value of the theory of biological evolution.”
Joining him at the news conference was a Vatican official who said, “Creationism from a [...]



No place for creationism in science class, state says

Thursday, September 18th, 2008 | Por admin | Category Religion News

Keep creationism out of science class, the state school system says.
At its meeting Tuesday, the Brunswick County school board began discussions on teaching creationism alongside evolution – something all four board members present showed a strong interest in. The talk began after Joel Fanti, a parent and graduate of the school system, told the board [...]



Large Hadron Collider to Have “Practical” Spin-Offs?

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 | Por admin | Category Science News

A multibillion-dollar atom smasher on the Franco-Swiss border may help scientists treat diseases, improve the Internet, and open the door to travel through extra dimensions, according to physicists.
On Wednesday scientists cheered and champagne flowed as the first beam of protons lapped around the Large Hadron Collider’s (LHC) 17-mile (27-kilometer) underground tunnel at the European Organization [...]



First Picture of Alien Planet Orbiting Sunlike Star?

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 | Por admin | Category Lead Articles, Science News

An image released today of a distant star and its potential planetary companion could go down in history as the first picture of a planet outside our solar system orbiting a sunlike star. The possible planet—a hot, young body (upper left) about eight times more massive than Jupiter—sits roughly 330 times as far from its host star as Earth is from the sun. The pair lies about 500 light-years from Earth.



Osama

Monday, September 15th, 2008 | Por admin | Category Humor

Wow, you killed osama bin laden!



Angel Dust? Preist arrested for selling coke from church rectory

Monday, September 15th, 2008 | Por admin | Category Lead Articles

A Catholic priest on the University of Illinois campus has been charged with selling cocaine from his church office and rectory.