Pellagra no longer stalks the nation as it once did. But during the early part of the 20th-century, pellagra, a disease that results from a …
Rockefeller Foundation president Max Mason assured foundation trustees that in their program, “the Social Sciences will concern themselves with the rationalization of social control, …the …
Charles Darwin published his thesis ‘Origin of the Species’ on November 24th, 1859 – after more than twenty years of waiting to formerly resurrect the …
In 1847, a 26-year-old German medical doctor, Hermann Helmholtz, gave a presentation to the Physical Society of Berlin that would change the course of history. …
The second law of thermodynamics is one of the most fundamental laws of nature, having profound implications. In essence, it says this: Every system, left …
William Paley (1743-1805), in his 1802 classic, Natural Theology, summarized the viewpoint of the scientists. He argued that the kind of carefully designed structures we …
On this day in 1774, dissenting British minister Joseph Priestley, author of Observations on Civil Liberty and the Nature and Justice of the War with …
Despite the considerable evidence that the Bible provided the necessary intellectual basis for science,1 atheists often claim that, historically, science and religion have been at …
Every child learns at school that the Black Death was spread by rats which carried infected fleas. But the textbooks may need to be changed, …
