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Journal of the exceptional

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03 scientists who formed

A war between science and religion was in play

the books on the Index of

but there would be more casualties on the side of science.

Prohibited Books.

any books on those subjects by placing

theories the Church deemed heretical and forbade people from reading

the Catholic Church. They persecuted

and 17th centuries, fear of heretics

spreading teachings and opinions that contradicted the Bible dominated

During most of the 16th

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GALILEO + THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH


Nicholas Copernicus and Galileo Galilei were

two scientists who printed books that later became banned. Copernicus

faced no persecution when

he was alive because he died shortly after publishing his book. Galileo, on the other hand, was tried by the Inquisition after his

book was published.

Both scientists held the same theory that the Earth revolved around the sun, a theory now

be true.

known to

However, the

Church disapproved of this theory because the Holy Scriptures state that the Earth is at the center,

not the Sun. As the contents of the Bible were taken literally, the

publishing of these books

proved, to the Church, that Copernicus and Galileo were sinners; they

their writing, that the

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FLYING TAXIs

“Fares in Paris will be around €10 if and when the project gets the final green light.”

SEA BUBBLES

London may have lost out to Paris in the race to become the first city in the world to be served by high-tech and environmentally-friendly

RIVER TAXIS. The

futuristic

egg-shaped

river

“FLYING”

shuttles,

the

creation of French yachtsman Alain Thébault and Swedish windsurfer Anders Bringdal, are due to be tried out in the French capital next spring at the request of the environmentally conscious city hall. Made of

fibreglass and high-density

foam, the solar energy-powered vessels can carry

five people and, with the help of foils fixed to the hulls that reduce drag

and cause the shuttle to

“float” about two foot above water, can reach speeds of up to 30kmh.

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Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo helped the s

tart-up get off the

ground and the team is repaying that favour by testing them out on the Seine, Mr Thébault said.

“If London had helped us out I think we would have started out there,” he told the Telegraph,

adding that city authorities

and private firms around the world had been in touch with him to find out more

about the project but that he had had no

contact from London officials.

Mr Thébault hopes that eventually

Sea Bubbles will be able

to be hailed on apps such as Uber, and he estimates that fares in Paris will be around €10 if and when the project gets the final green light.

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h e futuristic egg-shaped


LOOKING BACK AT A CAREER

JAMES CAMERON “Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Shoot

it on video if you have to. Put your name

on it as director. Now you’re a director.

Everything after that you’re just negotiating your budget and your fee.” (James Cameron)

After moving to California from Canada, James Cameron worked as a truck driver for a

few years before finally realising that the time had come for him to make a compelling bid on the film industry.

Via a series of circumstances he obtained

the money to make a 12-minute short called Xenogenesis, which got him a job at Roger

Corman’s New World Pictures. James Cameron’s sheer talent and motivation saw to it that he quickly moved up in the low-budget and

chaotic environment of Corman’s outfit, and he was soon running his own FX department.

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“Fares in Paris will be around €10 if and when.”

“Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your

friends and your sister star in it. Shoot it on video if you have to. Put your name

on it as director. Now you’re a director.

Everything after that you’re just negotiating your budget and your fee.” (James Cameron)

After moving to California from Canada, James Cameron worked as a truck driver for a

few years before finally realising that the time had come for him to make a compelling bid on the film industry.


SATE OF THE PLANET

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COMEBACK OF LARGE CARNIVORES IN EUROPE

Europe’s large carnivore populations saw their numbers

and distribution decline dramatically, mainly due to human intervention. This trend, however, was reversed in the last few decades, primarily thanks to the EU’s Birds and Habitats Directives.

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SEARCH FOR H2O

As NASA missions explore our solar system and search for new worlds, they are finding water in surprising places.

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A STARVING ALEPPO

Aid workers say city’s besieged eastern part in urgent need of food and medical supplies as winter conditions set in.The inhabitants of besieged eastern Aleppo have fewer than 10 days to receive aid or face starvation and death from a lack of medical supplies.

F AN-

4

METEROID STIMULATION

NASA the

and

FEMA

Unthinkable:

Rehearse An

for

Asteroid

Strike on Los Angeles Imagine if scientists discovered that

an asteroid was hurtling toward Los Angeles.

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POWER OF SOCIAL MEDIA

As the technology industry came to grips in the last week with the reality of a presidential election that did not go its way, many in Silicon Valley landed on

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the idea that widespread misinformation spread online was a primary factor in the race’s outcome.


STATE OF THE PLA ET

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JANICKI OMNIPROCESSOR

The Gates Foundation talked to engineers to figure out how we could use technology to

tackle these issues. Peter Janicki, CEO of Janicki Bioenergy, developed a machine that

converts sewer sludge into clean drinking water, electricity and pathogen-free ash in a matter of minutes.

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FLYEASE

In 2012, Matthew Walzer, who has cerebral palsy, wrote a letter to Nike asking the company to create sneakers

that people with disabilities could easily put on and take off without the help of others. This year, the company announced a new line of footwear — Flyease — that

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SENSE OF TOUCH

has a zipper extending around the back of the shoe.

Researchers wired a 28-year-old

man’s prosthetic — a mechanical hand developed by the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) at Johns Hopkins University — directly to his brain using electrodes on his

sensory cortex and motor cortex. He became the first person to be

able

to

“feel”

physical

sensations through a prosthetic hand, according to DARPA.

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FLOW HIVE

Two Aussie inventors created the Flow Hive beehive, which allows beekeepers to get honey on tap without opening the beehive and disturbing the bees.

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BE MY EYES

Be My Eyes is an iPhone app that allows users to

“lend” their eyes to the blind. It connects blind users to volunteers around the world to use live video chat and have them describe what they see and answer any questions.



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