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In an article titled Smarter than ever? by Lea Winerman, researcher James Flynn describes his discovery on the slow rise in the average IQ over time. He explains that it has more to do with the evolvi…

When you look at a map, doesn't it seem like all the continents fit together like pieces of a puzzle? Well if you said "yes" then you would be right. Meet Mr. Alfred Wegner, born on November 1st, 1880…

Isaac Newton changed the world in so many ways. He created the three laws of motion, the book of Principia. He also had another book called Optics. He influenced the world with his theories of gravity…

Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory does not focus on stages of human development but instead focuses on influences from social environments. This theory focuses on five interrelated systems. These sys…

Isaac Newton was one of the most influential scientists in history and one of the most important people of the scientific revolution. Mostly known as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time he …

It's hard performing groundbreaking experiments that will eventually lead to treatments for diseases such as Alzheimer's and cancer. Now try doing it in a makeshift lab in your bedroom while you're hi…

In 1930, a Swiss scientist named fritz Zwicky, while studying a coma cluster of galaxies he noticed something weird about the way they move. The galaxies were going way too fast, so fast that they sho…

Henry David Thoreau, famed naturalist and environmental writer, writes of numerous excursions and occurrences of nature during his lifetime. One such story known only as Huckleberries, explains in det…

Galileo Galilei's Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, written in 1615, employs distinctive rhetoric to justify Copernicanism, fitting it within the Catholic Church's paradigms. He points out how th…

Thomas Alva Edison once said, "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work" when he was working on the construction of the first electric light bulb. The light bulb was invented in …