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Author: Anthony Kendall • Page 1/2

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Half-Brothers in the Womb

In 1993, Wilma Stuart gave birth to two baby boys. They were fraternal twins, so some dissimilarity was to be expecte...
Written by Anthony Kendall • 13 Nov 2006 • Read →
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The Coherent Light Infantry

In 1960, when scientists first developed Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation, skeptical scientist...
Written by Anthony Kendall • 20 Oct 2006 • Read →
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Atomic Spaceship

The year was 1957. The power of the atom had been unleashed upon the world. Technology--along with just about everyth...
Written by Anthony Kendall • 21 Sep 2006 • Read →
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The Dark Tale of Colliding Superclusters

For all that mankind has learned through science, the Universe has so far managed to keep most of its secrets. For in...
Written by Anthony Kendall • 24 Aug 2006 • Read →
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Extinction of the Passenger Pigeons

Passenger Pigeons (Ectopistes Migratorius) were once so numerous that by some estimates they outnumbered all the rest...
Written by Anthony Kendall • 28 Jun 2006 • Read →
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Project Babylon: Gerald Bull’s Downfall

Gerald Bull is a prime example of a man who created his own luck--unfortunately for him most of it was bad. A brillia...
Written by Anthony Kendall • 26 May 2006 • Read →
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Earth’s Artificial Ring: Project West Ford

At the height of the Cold War in the late 1950s, all international communications were either sent through undersea c...
Written by Anthony Kendall • 02 May 2006 • Read →
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America’s Discarded Superconducting Supercollider

Deep beneath the plains of central Texas lies a catacomb of tunnels once meant to house the most expensive physics ex...
Written by Anthony Kendall • 18 Apr 2006 • Read →
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The Final Total Eclipse

If there truly is some extraterrestrial Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy it would undoubtedly list a total solar ecli...
Written by Anthony Kendall • 30 Mar 2006 • Read →
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China’s Sorrow

Natural disasters are tragedies that usually strike randomly and infrequently - unless you happen to live in the Huan...
Written by Anthony Kendall • 15 Mar 2006 • Read →
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