Popular Science


Collection of my brief articles on popular science. Most have also been published in Spanish.
Full list at: https://manuelalfonseca.acta.es/docs/papersd.htm.

Manuel Alfonseca

Thursday, October 27, 2016

The eerie silence

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A little over half a century ago, saw the beginning of project Ozma (named for the princess ruling the fictional country of Oz), which co...
Thursday, October 20, 2016

Aging and longevity

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Life span of several species. Data from Science News, 7-13-2016 It is often said that aging has been favored by natural selection to fa...
Thursday, October 13, 2016

Who is to blame for human atrocities?

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Dr. Thomas A. Dooley The following paragraph was written by Dr. Thomas A. Dooley in his book Deliver us from evil (1956). After severa...
Thursday, October 6, 2016

The mystery of the missing neutrinos

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Detection of solar neutrinos in a one mile deep South Dakota mine (1972) One of the pseudoscientific hoaxes running in Internet says so...
Thursday, September 29, 2016

Dark matter or a new theory

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Urbain Le Verrier Science studies facts and tries to explain why they occur. Scientific theories are the more credible, the more facts ...
Thursday, September 22, 2016

The myth of the Enlightenment

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As I mentioned in the previous article, in my unpublished work Quantification of history and the future of the West I applied an objective...
Thursday, September 15, 2016

The myth of the Dark Ages

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Bertrand Russell Echoing the myth of the Dark Ages, a name for the European Middle Ages invented by the writers of the Enlightenment, B...
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