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FT Exploring: We Think. Therefore we Explore and Learn.

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Outstanding, accurate, entertaining, enlightening (according to my readers), and FREE, energy and science education. No adds interrupt my content. You are Free to explore to your heart's and mind's content. Enjoy. (And please share!)
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The same basic science principles apply everywhere in nature. Explore how energy flows through all of nature, living organisms, and human technology. The knowledge of these principles has come through the simple application of scientific knowledge. Humans only started thinking this way a few hundred years ago. The change, since then, has been astonishing.

NEWEST PAGE: PLAGUE!

Imagine a world where half the children never grow up. That's how it always was, until just the last 120 years or so. Now, in the often called "more developed" countries, much less than one in a hundred die before age 20. Is it a miracle?

NEW PAGE: COLLIDING STARS

Colliding neutron stars, gravity waves, and the creation of gold? It happened when dinosaurs roamed, but we just learned about it. The incredible story of human growth and wonders discovered by the scientific method. Look what we can achieve when we work together?

PHOTOSYNTHESIS

My most popular pages. For twenty years, students, teachers, and continuous learners, have loved this free resource. Start at the intro link above, or go to my most popular page of all time: Photosynthesis in a Leaf.

ENERGY IS EVERYTHING

Energy conversions make everything happen. In the right conditions (like on the sun and in nuclear power plants), matter can be converted to energy. Energy is the essence of everything. A lot of gobbledy-goop is said about it. Want the straight scoop? Start here.

WIND ENERGY

The wind is free and never stops. We don't need to fight over it. How much power can you really take from the wind? Why you can't compare wind turbine efficiency to the efficiency of diesel engines or other thermal engine types, and more.

SOLAR ENERGY

If you're serious about learning the real nitty-gritty of solar energy, these pages are clear and thorough. Don't go tossin' around terms like insolation, direct, diffuse, or reflected radiation, until you've studied these pages. Written by AM Watson.

WONDERS OF SCIENCE

We were stuck in a thinking rut! For thousands of years, we just made stuff up. And woe unto those who dared question the stories we made up. Then, amazingly, we learned to question the stories, to test them, and most wondrous of all, we could change our mind - the biggest, most incredible, breakthrough in human history.

PLAGUES AND CURES

A new coming series, intruduced here, and in the Plague! link above. For most of our history, no one knew what caused the diseases that were killing so many children. We didn't know about "germs". Thanks to the scientific method, we discovered the real causes and how to prevent or cure many deadly diseases. Millions upon millions of children stopped dying.

DR. GALAPAGOS

Ah, Dr. Galapagos! Still kicking after all these years. From the earliest days of this site. He's still popular. What the hec, let's start him up again. He's a know-it-all. Got a science question? Send it in.

SUPERBUGS?

Fleas and ants are incredible and fascinating, but they are not super powered. If a flea were as big as a horse, could it jump many times its own height? Nope. It probably couldn't even walk, much less jump an inch. Could the mighty ant lift 20 times its own weight? Nope. Probably couldn't even lift its own head.

CATAPULTS AND FLEAS

The flea has a clever trick, that is more brillian and elegant than any super power, and it stays within the laws of nature -- as we all must do. Everything living thing has something wondrous about it.

WHAT HAVE THE ENGINEERS WROUGHT?

Like it or not, the engineers have given us civilization. Engineers, and engineering, are the reason we have musicians, lawyers, talk show hosts, artists, real estate agents, scientists, teachers, and on and on and on. Read about Doofty Girl and the parallel world where engineering never happened.