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Roborant:
rob"o*rant, n. A roborant drug; a restorative or tonic.
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Category: Science
Science is the fundamental engine of human advancement. Science is, in a sense, a religion, in the sense that I have faith that it will continue to lead humankind to greater and greater heights. On the other hand, it's not at all like a religion, in the sense that my faith is based on concrete evidence of past achievements. For me, no art is a beautiful as the knowledge gained from science.
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More From Enceladus
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Saturn's moon Enceladus is turning out to be full of surprises.
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Einstein's Telescope
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Cosmology has gone from speculation and wonder to cold, hard facts. How this came about is the subject of a very good book.
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The 12th Planet
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Zecharia Sitchin has made a lifelong living from a series of pretty crazy books. Here we take a look at the origin of the craziness.
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This Means War
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Gaia again makes it clear that she it mankind's sworn, eternal enemy.
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Stolen Quotes
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Some Earth Day predictions for you to savor
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Human Extinction
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Humans nearly went extinct 70,000 years ago and scientists suggest it may have been due to climate change. Pretty scary, no?
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Norbert Wiener: why you never heard of him
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Norbert Wiener is one of the heros of the Information Age, but you've never heard of him. That's mostly because of his own paranoia and a rather nutty wife.
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Bull Creek Archeology
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I found something interesting while walking the dog at Bull Creek. But what is it?
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Global Warming: The Wrong Debate
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The current debate about the causes of global warming is stupid and unproductive. We should be talking about what we're going to do, no who we're going to blame.
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Understanding the Basenji
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Basenjis can be quite fun to own, but you have to understand the breed and, above all, be smarter than the dog.
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Lilies of Hope
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The lilies of the field spectacularly marked the end of a hard summer this year.
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Predictions for the next fifteen years
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Predicting the future is fun, easy and informative. Unless you want to be accurate...
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You say manometer, I say nanometer
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Spell checkers are no substitute for good editors.
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In the Blink of an Eye
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In this book Andrew Parker attempts to explain a long-time mystery of science: what explains the mysterious blast of evolution known as the Cambrian Explosion? Parker thinks he knows and I wouldn't be surprised if he's right.
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Moving on Foot
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There is more to walking than meets the eye — particularly if you have four feet. This is a pictoral essay on the various four-legged gaits.
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Science is the new Religion
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What does it mean to have faith in science?
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Risky Business
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Human drama is exactly what NASA is not about.
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Intelligent Design
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Intelligent Design is a joke. Nature is full of severely unintelligent design.
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Incompleteness
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Today's Prediction
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New technology that will be important soon.
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Rockets
The Future of Travel Beyond the Stratosphere
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Willy Ley is a hero of the "space race" and this book was one of his most influential.
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24, Dumb as a Box of Doorknobs
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I only watched the finale, and boy am I glad!
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Infernal Combustion Engines
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What about those electric cars? Any hope there?
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Nuke Talk
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A general discussion of radiation, how it works, how it is measured and what is dangerous about it.
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Transformation
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The White Rain Lilly can really amaze you.
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Bird Watching
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You never know what will fly in and land in the yard.
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Epimetheus
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Say hello to Saturn's moon Epimetheus.
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Poppies and Symmetry
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George Adamski
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George Adamski was a remarkable man who laid the groundwork for generations of UFO nuts to come.
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Yikes!
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We're overdue for Big Trouble.
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Intelligent Design Refuted
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I can refute Intelligent Design with a single snapshot.
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Things That Go Bump in The Night
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You hear a lot of strange things at night. You even start to wonder how it can be that you can hear it all.
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Unusual Natural Phenomena
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There are plenty of whacky things going on right here on our own planet.
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Nero Wolfe for a Chapter
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Can you figure out who wrote a passage just by its style? Sometimes, yes you can.
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The Science Behind Good and Evil
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Michael Shermer thinks he knows why people are good or evil. Amazingly, he has some science to back up his opinions.
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Flapdoodle
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A handy guide to what not to believe in the twisted world of pseudoscience, superstition and quackery.
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Be Certain
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