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| A dubious scientist has conducted an in-depth study of alternative therapies and deduced - to her surprise - that they are not merely mumbo jumbo.
Kathy Sykes said that she had previously been cautious about using alternative therapies. She explains, "I would rather put my faith in conventional medicine, which has been put through numerous trials and research, and proven to work through rigorous experiments." However, after spending months studying reflexology, meditation and hypnotherapy for a BBC documentary, she has had a change of heart. |
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by Chet Raymo
Scientific knowledge grows organically, like a tree.
Every piece of published research is like a new bud on a twig. The bud is connected to every other bud on the tree. Two buds may be very close together, on the same twig, or very far apart, so that to trace the connection one would have to follow twigs and branches all the way back to the trunk and out again along other branches and twigs. Ultimately, all scientific knowledge is one. It is the connectedness of science that give us confidence in its reliability. |
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| Yesterday I pulled the yellow flowers off the few dandelions in our grassy garden before they went to seed. Today, a few more yellow flowers. I'm always astonished that a dandelion can make a flower overnight. |
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| Sunspots are not just interesting science experiments and footnotes to the anatomy of our star, but they could actually have a direct impact on the Earth's climate. According to some scientists, we are long overdo for a storm of sunspots. Usually these things happen in cycles and as it happens the sun has been far too quiet for the comfort of many. So much, in fact, that a hundred scientists all got together and had a conference about it. |
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| Late night, candlelight, a glass of wine. Outside, the stars of Orion are setting in the west. Mars and the Moon, in Gemini, will soon follow. On the stereo -- Henry Purcell's Ode on St. Cecilia's Day 1692. |
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