Evolutionary biologist Julian Huxley's personal library is preserved in the archives of Rice University (Houston, TX, USA), where he taught briefly 1910s. It contains scientific publications, such as T. H. Morgan's findings new genetics; popular science books, like George Schaller's The Year Gorilla (1963)1; Science and Synthesis (1967), proceedings a symposium on Albert Einstein Pierre Teilhar...

The suggestion in 1986 of a possible gravity-like “fifth” fundamental force renewed interest in the question of whether new macroscopic forces are present in nature. Such forces are predicted in many theories which unify gravity with the other known forces, and their presence can be detected by searching for apparent deviations from the predictions of Newtonian gravity. We review the phenomenol...

Severe scaly lesions in the skin, especially in the were accompanied by growth retardation, impaired feet and tail, of the rat were induced by feeding a diet deficient fertility, increased water consumption, and diminished in essential fatty acids (EFA). Analysis of the fatty acids in skin urine production^ B~~~ and B~~~ proposed that linoleic lipids of these EFA-deficient rats showed a marked ...

First year university students’ religious and spiritual beliefs and attitudes were investigated over the course of the year. The survey used was largely made up of a subset of questions from the CSBV survey created by HERI and adapted and administered via Survey monkey software to 153 first year students in the Fall Semester and 74 first year students in the Spring Semester at the University of...

Responding to Chalmers’ The Singularity (2010), I argue that progress towards self-improving AIs is already substantially beyond what many futurists and philosophers are aware of. Instead of rehashing well-trodden topics of the previous millennium, let us start focusing on relevant new millennium results. All indented paragraphs of this paper are quotes taken from Chalmers’ paper of 2010, who m...

The Global Consciousness Project (GCP) is an international collaboration of researchers studying interactions of consciousness with the environment. The GCP maintains a network of random event generators (REGs) located in over 40 host sites around the world. These devices generate random data continuously and send it for archiving to a dedicated server in Princeton, New Jersey. The data are ana...