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Today, I thought I would share with you some of the photos taken by NASA of Mars that strongly suggest there is life (or was life) on the Red Planet. We will begin with what has been termed “The Crowned Face.” A photo taken in the Libya Montes area – a ring of mountains on Mars – by the Mars Global Surveyor appears to show a large face, with a pointed chin, a pair of…
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Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch, is a legendary creature said to inhabit the remote forests of North America. While the elusive creature has captured the imagination of countless people, it is far from the only mysterious, ape-like giant reported in myths and legends from around the world. In this article, we will explore various Bigfoot-like creatures and the unique stories that surround them, delving into the rich cultural tapestry that has given rise to these…
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Water is a fascinating substance. It readily manifests on Earth in the three most common states of matter: solid (ice), liquid (water), and gas (water vapor). The physicists and chemists who study the various states of matter plot them on a chart known as a phase diagram. A generic one is shown below. On the Y-axis is pressure, and on the X-axis is temperature. The diagram shows what we all know intuitively to be true:…
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In 2022, the physics Nobel prize was awarded for experimental work showing that the quantum world must break some of our fundamental intuitions about how the universe works. Many look at those experiments and conclude that they challenge “locality” — the intuition that distant objects need a physical mediator to interact. And indeed, a mysterious connection between distant particles would be one way to explain these experimental results. Others instead think the experiments challenge “realism”…
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Ghost hunting in locations like castles, stately homes and prison has become a leisure activity for the thousands of members of the public who attend paranormal events each week, but what about hunting down spirits in a graveyard, an ancient burial ground or even a concentration camp? Auschwitz is probably the most infamous of all concentration and extermination camps, it was situated in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. In 1979 it was named a…