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Private Moon Bases and NASA

A soon-to-be-released study on future activities in space suggests that private Moon bases could be a reality as early as 2020...

Jun 11, 2013
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
The Message of Alexander Graham Bell

Few men of great stature provide a more striking contrast to Sebastian Bach than does Alexander Graham Bell. Bach was the supreme master of

Mar 1, 2013
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6 Mins
Rubio, GOP Stumbling Away from Creationist Nonsense

Religious fundamentalists in the Republican Party scare away sensible voters when they inject their superstitions into public forums

Dec 4, 2012
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
Give Thanks to Google

This Thanksgiving, take a moment to thank one of the greatest benefactors in your life: the entity who shows you the way so that you don’t

Nov 21, 2012
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4 Mins
The Fourth GOP Debate: Sounding a Small Techno-Future Note

The fourth GOP presidential primary debate is worth noting in part because Marco Rubio sounded a note on the topic of our techno-future

Nov 10, 2012
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Edward Hudgins
5 Mins
Neil Armstrong: American Hero

As the Apollo 11 lunar module “Eagle” approached the surface of the Moon on July 20, 1969, the millions of people following the mission on

Aug 27, 2012
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
Curiosity on Mars!

Today NASA's Curiosity Rover landed on Mars. Its advanced instruments should bring humanity closer to knowing whether life exists on the Re

Aug 6, 2012
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Edward Hudgins
2 Mins
Benjamin Franklin's 10 Basic Hypotheses

Electrical matter consists of extremely small particles. (True. Electrons are particles and are smaller than can be measured..

Feb 22, 2012
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3 Mins
Benjamin Franklin Explains the Leyden Jar

The Leyden jar is variously called a condenser or capacitor, and the reasons for those two names become obvious when one understands the...

Feb 22, 2012
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3 Mins
Benjamin Franklin: Enlightenment Archetype

This month's "Achievers" column begins to redeem the promise made on the inside back cover of the December 1999 Navigator. There, under the

Feb 21, 2012
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10 Mins
Benjamin Franklin: Enlightenment Archetype

Benjamin Franklin is the ideal person to lead off The Atlas Society''s Year 250 celebration, for many reasons. First, Franklin was a man who

Feb 21, 2012
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10 Mins
Benjamin Franklin: Enlightenment Archetype

January 2000 -- This month's "Achievers" column begins to redeem the promise made on the inside back cover of the December 1999 Navigator. T

Feb 21, 2012
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10 Mins
Lynda Weinman: Queen of the Triple Win

Just 10 years ago 3G and Bluetooth were in their infancy; Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube didn’t exist; and there were no mobile app stores.

Oct 26, 2011
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10 Mins
The Social Power of Integrity

There are people whom you have known or met who have a powerful quality to them; they know themselves, they seem comfortable in their own...

Jul 26, 2011
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Joel Wade
10 Mins
Engineers and Integrity

Editor's note: The following article is adapted from "Professional Heroes," a talk given by Gordon Stubley at the 1997 Atlas Society Summer

Jun 29, 2011
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7 Mins
Happy 400th Birthday Modern Astronomy!

On August 25, 1609 Galileo first demonstrated the telescope to Venetian officials and then proceeded to point it at the night skies in order

Jun 9, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
2 Mins
Signals from Spaceship 1

October 2004 -- On Oct. 4, 2004, the 47th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik, humanity again made spaceflight history. SpaceShipOne, desig

May 10, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
Is Quantum Mechanics Unworthy?

Spring 2011 -- In The Logical Leap, David Harriman draws a fundamental contrast between two historically crucial scientific theories: Newton

Apr 19, 2011
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David S. Ross
5 Mins
Review: "The Logical Leap: Induction in Physics"

Induction is the formation of general knowledge from particular evidence. It is induction if you burn your hand once and thereafter always..

Apr 19, 2011
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8 Mins
What Are Creationists Afraid Of?

This year marks the eightieth anniversary of the 1925 trial of John Scopes, who was accused of violating Tennessee’s prohibition on teaching

Mar 30, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
10 Mins

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