While the widespread social and economic implications of Alcohol or Other Drug (AOD) abuse are often associated with destitution, broken homes, criminal activity, low intellect or lack of moral fibre; AOD use, let alone abuse, is non-discriminative and certainly not localised to the impoverished. Casual AOD use and experimentation is dependent on a variety of […]
Read More Community Drug and Alcohol Use; implications and preventionSelf-imposed intellectual stimulation ft. make me tired from my raging insomnia; go. Personally don’t like the phonetic aesthetic of the term, but all ideas of scientific origin must be labelled after their creator. The Fermi Paradox; a concept coined by Italian physicist, Enrico Fermi, explores the contradiction between the high probability of extraterrestrial life and […]
Read More Fermi ParadoxForce of gravity vs dark energy. An iconic conflict
Read More Universal expansion & dark energy; the greatest theoretical threat to the world we knowSo, I love stars. First and foremost, this is how they are born. A cloud of gas collapses under its own weight (cloud composed of hydrogen and helium as well as other heavier elements formed in supernovae explosions) As the cloud increases in size, so does its spin A dense object forms at its core The […]
Read More Stellar Evolution, Death and the Importance of Space Travel
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