A total solar eclipse, one of the earth's most unique phenomena is when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun, its shadow hitting the Earth and blocking out the Sun. If you're lucky enough to be in the path taken by the centre of that shadow, the Moon will align itself exactly with the sun, blocking it entirely and you'll see a total eclipse. Outside of the path of totality, although a staggering 95% of the Sun is still obscured, the effect of the eclipse is not n...

Hurricane Katrina was the greatest disaster ever recorded for the United States in terms of property damage, which is estimated to be $75 billion dollars. However, it is not the deadliest U.S. hurricane on record. Other major storms are the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane, which killed at least 4,075 people and caused around $100 million in damage ($800 million in 2005 terms, adjusting for inflation). Hurricane Andrew caused $26 billion ($45 billion in 2005 terms) in damages (mo...

The Tower of the Winds (Horologion) built in Athens by the astronomer Andronicus around the first half of the first century BC is apparently the oldest surviving weathervane if not the very first in human history. The weathervane itself was destroyed long ago, a beautiful bronze merman warrior known as a Triton. The compass rose however, the very tower itself has survived, and many artists throughout the later half of the last millennium had the chance to draw the tower in it...

Well?.. The greenhouse effect is the natural process by which the atmosphere traps some of the Sun's energy, warming the Earth enough to support life as we know it! When humans cut down trees or burn fossil fuels, they release extra carbon into the atmosphere, increasing the greenhouse effect. Mass deforestation around the world at an unprecedented rate is making the problem worse year by year. Unfortunately, due to this climate change the earth is getting warmer as tem...

A naturally-occurring hot springs settles on the bottom of the ocean floor, in a similar way as the Old Faithful spouts off every so often at Yosemite National Park in the U.S. In the same way, these black smokers on the ocean floor release gases that bubble up inside the ocean, far away from anyone?s view. These structures are chimney-like and are made up of sulfur-bearing minerals or sulfides formed by the Earth?s crust. These sulfide minerals crystallize onto volcanic r...

The eco-cult of the Globaloney-warming true-believers ignores reality. If the earth is warming than why are winters in various parts of the globe becoming colder, more violent and more prone to defy weekly forecasts let alone millennium forecasts? To deny Global Cooling is criminal. Where are the experts to demand [like they did in 1975] that we only have 5 years to solve this Global Cooling crisis! Global Cooling deniers are worse than holocaust deniers. By denying the cooling trends they will cause the next ice age which will kill our children; destroy the earth goddess Gaia; and make the UN and Al Gore look like idiots [easy enough to do however]. Where is the outrage!

From the handy Webster dictionary the entry for ?cult? is: ??great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially: such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad.? Devotion to a fad is the key idea. It is an apt description of the mother Gaia cult of eco-fascist hyperbole and irrationality ? devoted to implausible and unscientific ideas and abstract Marxist ideology. The current ?green? cult is no more intelligent, rational or environmentally friendly than the earth cults of Sumeria, Assyria, ancient Egypt or the 2000 year old pagan cult centered at Delphi in Greece. Nor is it more enlightened and relevant than the Druidic cults which were smashed by the Romans in Gaul and Britain. Cults are simply bad news.

We have many different options for healthcare today, but the focus will be on biologically based treatments and prevention. The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) defines the scope of biologically based practices to include, but is not limited to, botanicals, animal-derived extracts...