by Ed Van Gennip | Nov 28, 2023 | True Science Blog
Credit: Small Family Footprint The environment – it is where we live. It provides all our basic needs such as air, food, water, materials for clothing and shelter. Beyond that it provides materials for everything else we need, except for the energy we get from...
by Ed Van Gennip | Nov 9, 2022 | True Science Blog
What came first, the chicken or the egg? A paradox which applies to many similar things. Chickens produce eggs. Eggs grow into chickens. Did some pre-chicken drop the first chicken egg? Did some pre-chicken egg hatch into the first chicken? How about a bigger...
by Ed Van Gennip | Jul 26, 2022 | True Science Blog
Marvel movie fans will recognize the reference implied by the title of this article. “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” is a recent Marvel movie. In this movie Dr. Strange, with the help of a woman who can travel between universes, go to different universes...
by Ed Van Gennip | May 6, 2021 | True Science Blog
“Space, the final frontier” was the opening phrase of the original Star Trek series running from 1966-1969. That opening includes their mission “ … to explore strange new worlds. seek out new life and new civilizations …”. That appears to continue to be the final...
by Ed Van Gennip | Dec 26, 2020 | True Science Blog
Entropy – “lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder.”, according to Oxford. A lack of order. A lack of predictability. A decline from order to disorder. Seems fairly straight forward, but is it? In nature entropy is always at work....
by Ed Van Gennip | Aug 12, 2020 | True Science Blog
The current world issue is the Corona Virus, or Covid-19. Over the past 6 months we have heard many things about it. Where it came from, what is the cure, how is it spread, who is affected, etc. Unfortunately there have been varying answers to these questions so it is...
by Ed Van Gennip | Apr 13, 2020 | True Science Blog
“It’s a Small World after All” is the name of an old Walt Disney World theme park ride. Recent events have shown this to be true. The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) has come upon the world quickly. It has been a wake-up call in many ways. It is easily spread and causing much...
by Ed Van Gennip | Oct 20, 2019 | True Science Blog
Credit: NASA In July 2013 I published a blog titled “Global Warming”. We do not hear that term today, 6 years later. Now “Climate Change” is in vogue. In 2006 Al Gore from the USA travelled around promoting something called “An Inconvenient Truth”. It was all about...
by Ed Van Gennip | Aug 7, 2019 | True Science Blog
Just 3 weeks ago an event happened you may not have heard about. July 20th was the 50th anniversary of the first men to walk on the moon! President John F. Kennedy announced to America on May 25 1961, that America would put a man on the moon before the end of the...
by Ed Van Gennip | May 13, 2019 | True Science Blog
In this article I divert from the traditional science to delve into something a little different, yet related. Please read on. The Quora website estimates there are at least 7 million full-time, working scientists around the world today. Some of these scientists look...
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