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Jun 26 2011, Michael Kerjman

In a landmark turnabout, one of the cornerstones of contemporary liberalism is being rejected by one of the fountainheads of liberalism. The politically correct doctrine of multiculturalism is heading for decline, as Holland, one of the most socially...

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Wa'd, Amman
I noticed today that google has a nice picture of waterfalls, trees animals instead of the word google. So I clicked the picture to find out the occasion behind the...
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Michael Kerjman, The Earth
A nice place in Elwood, Australia-but with a twist...(see article), [icture by M. Kerjman Believe it or not to, modern computing makes hunting the ghost possible even...
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Michael Kerjman, The Earth
Massive earthquake happened in NZ, killing 76 already.
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Michael Kerjman, The Earth
A Tel Aviv University team excavating a cave in central Israel said teeth found in the cave are about 400,000 years old and resemble those of other remains of modern...
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Anya Sans, Goa
A University of California, Berkeley, geophysicist has made the first-ever measurement of the strength of the magnetic field inside Earth’s core, 1,800 miles...
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Alice Ever, Texas
Humans have always considered ourselves the smartest creatures on Earth, but new research has revealed that other animals are much smarter than we ever thought...
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Anna Smith, Delhi
We often look up at the sky at night and wonder at the stars, but from space Earth has its own impressive light show.These pictures taken by an astronaut on the...
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Water is the source of life - treasure it! R5. Water is the source of all life on earth. It touches every area of our lives. Without it, we could not thrive — we...
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Sanwali, Shimla
Magnetic minerals in 15-million-year-old rocks appear to preserve a moment when the magnetic north pole was rapidly on its way to becoming the south pole, and vice...
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Boba B., Moscow
Of meeting between foreign ministers S. Lavrov of Russia and visiting S.Smith of Australia, news published in a small print can surely be missed by readers used to...
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President Barack Obama set a lofty next goal this week for Americans in space: Visiting an asteroid by 2025. But reaching a space rock in a mere 15 years is a daunting...
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Michael Kerjman, The Earth
The Chilean earthquake has shortened the length of the day by making the Earth rotate faster, according to NASA scientists-and “The X-Challenge” of 1993:...
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British oil drilling operations around the Falkland Islands are whipping up new tensions with Argentina almost 30 years after the two countries went to war over the...
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CARBONATE VEINS REVEAL CHEMISTRY OF ANCIENT SEAWATER.
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According to experts, the brightest and largest moon this year to appear this Friday, 29 January 2010: the lunar disk shining will be seen 30% brighter, and its...
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Don, Abu Dhabi
People all over the world who observe stars and planets enjoyed a special phenomenon on Wednesday night. From the UAE, telescopic viewing and astrophotography was...
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R.I.P. victims of struggle against islamism, for human dignity, human rights, personal liberties, democracy and progress on the Earth. Let Peace and Joy unite a world...
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GA, Jalandhar City
A lot has been going around. The problem is real, but I feel the efforts are misguided- It has happened before and is happening now. Climate change is no one’s...
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Michael Kerjman, The Earth
The skeptics have seized upon e-mails stolen from the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in Britain as evidence that scientific data have been...
made popular Nov 23 2009
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Shikha Garg, Meerut/Delhi
There is a big hue and cry these days regarding the show ‘Sach ka Saamnaa’ and I would like to add my opinion on it. The show is hosted by Rajeev Khandelwal who was...
made popular Aug 17 2009
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Pierre P., Bpr
What is a “27 June” about? Forty years ago rebellion at a gay pub in the heart of New York City, in Stonewall Bar opened a new era in politics and social justice,...
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Anaeline T, NYC
And here is a new M. Kerjman publication “The X-Challenge: Realm of Senses”. If even at the end it brings about just some solutions to tackling a pig flue and...
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Alok Gurtu, Bangalore
First it was the spectacular “Eye of GOD”… now it’s “Hand of GOD”. The amazing image was taken by NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory, which is orbiting...
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Kamal Kishore, Shimla
The occasionally acrimonious debate about the planet’s climate has been missing a key component: accurate measurements of how much carbon dioxide is in the air...
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View Point, Shimla
According to the WWF Living Planet Report 2008, which warns that humanity is consuming the resources provided by Earth’s natural systems much too fast and...
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Vikas Shekhawat, Churu, Rajasthan
Chandrayaan-1, India’s maiden moon spacecraft, was put into Transfer Orbit around the earth by the Polar Launch Vehicle PSLV-C11 after it blasted off from the...
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Glenn, Perth
The Cassini spacecraft observations of Saturn’s largest moon, the orange-colored Titan, have given scientists a glimpse of what Earth might have been like before...
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Pat, Sydney
Before 1995, we couldn’t have said that with any certainty. Now we know of more than 300 planets orbiting distant stars, and we have a fleet of telescopes looking for...
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Johanna, San Diego
The wonders of the natural world never cease to amaze. Imagine: a fruit that when eaten, renders sour foods sweet. It’s like the Midas touch of food, and it actually...
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Reshmi, Bangalore
A pinkish tract of bedrock on the eastern shore of Canada’s Hudson Bay contains the oldest known rocks on Earth, formed 4.28 billion years ago, not long after the...
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Shane, Kansas City
A rudimentary form of natural selection likely existed in the primordial soup even before life arose on Earth. If so, the complex
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Kevin, Columbia
With fierce storm after storm hitting the Caribbean and threatening our coasts this hurricane season seems to illuminate the ever more apparent effects of climate...
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Vikas, solan
Mars had floods from time to time, a new study has suggested.Astronomers claim to have found evidence that ancient features on the surface of Mars, called valley...
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Emmett, Los Angeles
Good advice from the 70s progressive band. Look around you. Unless you’re one of the Apollo astronauts, you’ve lived your entire life within a few hundred...
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Korey, Houston
As far as cosmic questions go, it’s as good a one as any: When will our great universe cease to be, and shuffle our great^10^75-grandchildren off the mortal coil?...
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Amith, Boston
The future looks bright—maybe too bright. The sun is slowly expanding and brightening, and over the next few billion years it will eventually desiccate Earth, leaving...
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Danielle, Richmond
The message, which translates as “Lenin is 100″, was cut into a forest in a remote region of Siberia. Each letter is around 80 metres high, and the entire...
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Rebecca, Ca
A weirdly wonderful sight appeared to astronauts aboard the International Space Station this summer — thin blue clouds hovering at the boundary between Earth’s...
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Chris Andrews, chief of public programs and director of the Steinhart Aquarium at the California Academy of Sciences, holds up Balthazar, a red-tail boa constrictor, while throwing out the ceremonial first pitch to celebrate Earth Day before the San...