A LOOK AT THE ORIGINS
   

MINI ALMANAC


Calendar

Moon phase

Highlights:

Norbert Wiener

IG-NOBEL 2005

The Da Vinci Code

Holy Blood, Holy Grail

The Solomon Key

NOBEL MEDICINE 2004

IG-NOBEL PRIZES
2004

The first email

Concerned Scientists write to Bush

Economics Nobel 2003

Chemistry Nobel 2003

Medicine Nobel 2003
Literature Nobel 2003

Physics Nobel 2003

Life on Mars ?
Rosalind Franklin and the Discovery of Double Helix
Good Bye Dolly
On Stonehenge
The Loss of Columbia
IG Nobel 2002
The invention of :-)
West Nile Virus
Asteroid Impact?
Molecule Hunt
Tuxedo Park
Ancient Trade Routes
Pop Singer to Fly In Space
Great Ideas

Computational Genomics

Bioinformatics


Baraka
The Universe in a Nutshell
Copenhagen, the Play
Count of Monte Cristo
Nobel Prize 2001
John Nash
Echelon
Kernel Methods
Ig-Nobel Prize
Einstein's Brain
Space Turism
Floating City
Mir's Blast
Origins
Great Books
Nobel Prize
In the mind of:
Serial Killers
The secret shuttle
Are we aliens?
Studying ET
Dinosaurs
Bonobo
Pattern Analysis
Early Vibrators
and Hysteria
The CYB.ORGs
among us
Book: Darwin
Book: Russell
 
 

On our origins
This section deals with the origins of things. Origins of life, man, life, universe ... also origins of words !

It is a way to look in a fresh way at things we think we know well, and to wonder at how far we have gone since the beginning of history. Or... have we ?
 

The Origins of the Universe

The most fundamental question you can ask: how did it all start ? How and when was the universe formed ? Or did it always exist ? A series of books deals with this and other questions ...

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The Origins of Civilization
The origin of modern humans are still the object of intense investigation and debate. But some theories appear stronger than others ...
New techniques make it posible to track ancient migrations, and reconstrct our long path ...
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The Origins of Life
How did life on Earth originate? Did replication or metabolism come first in the history of life?

Did life 'reach' Earth or was it originated here ?

...more
 

The Origins of Language
Many theories exist about the origins of languages. Here we look at the origin of WORDS, etymology ...

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INDOEUROPEANS
story of
a successful tribe


ETYMOLOGY:
the origin of words

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History of Technology

Is this Monument Telling the Truth ?



This monument in downtown Boston is at odds with a recent Congress resolution, granting to Antonio Meucci - not Alexander Bell - moral rights for the invention of the telephone .... more
 
Improbable Research

The 2005 IG Nobel Prizes were awarded in a ceremony at Harvard University.

THE 2005 AWARDS:

CLICK HERE !

 

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