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Genetic 'Adam' and 'Eve' Uncovered

04/11/2013 05:51
By Tia Ghose Almost every man alive can trace his origins to one man who lived about 135,000 years ago, new research suggests. And that ancient man likely shared the planet with the mother of all women. The findings, detailed today (Aug. 1) in the journal Science, come from the most complete...

Michio Kaku's Civilizations of the Cosmos

03/11/2013 18:47
"What does it mean for a civilization to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our technical civilization is a few hundred years old ... an advanced civilization millions of years old is as much beyond us as we are beyond a bushbaby or a macaque."...

Civilization Type 0: Living in a Subglobal Culture

03/11/2013 18:42
To measure the level of a civilization’s advancement, the Kardashev scale focuses on the amount of energy that a civilization is able to utilize. Notably, the amount of power available to a civilization is fundamentally linked to how widespread the civilization is (you obviously can’t harness the...

The Physics of Time Travel: Is it real, or is it fable?

03/11/2013 18:36
by Michio Kaku In H.G. Wells’ novel, The Time Machine, our protagonist jumped into a special chair with blinking lights, spun a few dials, and found himself catapulted several hundred thousand years into the future, where England has long disappeared and is now inhabited by strange creatures called...

The Physics of Extraterrestrial Civilizations

03/11/2013 18:32
by Michio Kaku The late Carl Sagan once asked this question, “What does it mean for a civilization to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our technical civilization is a few hundred years old… an advanced civilization millions of years old is as...

Six Different Types of Civilizations

03/11/2013 18:29
by Wes Penre In 1964, the Russian astronomer, Nikolai Kardashev, constructed something he called "The Kardashev Scale"[1]. It puts energy consumption of an entire cosmic civilization in perspective, so that we hopefully, when face-to-face or mind-to-mind with an alien species, relatively quickly...

Sumer and Anunnaki

03/11/2013 18:15
The ancient alien astronaut theory presupposes that thousands of years ago even before recorded history our planet was visited by astronauts from another world, intelligent beings with technology beyond our own today.  Many archaeologists around...

Mesopotamia: The First Civilization

03/11/2013 18:10
Around 6000 B.C., after the agricultural revolution had begun to spread from its place of origin on the northern fringes of the Fertile Crescent, Neolithic farmers started filtering into the Fertile Crescent itself. Although this broad plain received insufficient rainfall to support agriculture,...

What Is a Civilization, Anyway?

03/11/2013 17:53
Cynthia Stokes Brown We often teach early civilizations without taking time to discuss with our students what a civilization really is. The California History-Social Science Framework does not ask us directly to analyze or define what a civilization is; rather it asks that students "analyze the...

Sumerians: Who Were They? The Sudden Civilization

03/11/2013 17:44
by Walter Baucum A question that has fascinated archaeologists and historians for centuries is just who were the Sumerians, the “sudden civilization” that appeared in full swing in Mesopotamia over 4,000 years ago?  [Read more] ...  
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