http://news.spirithit.com/index/sci_tech/ Religious and Spiritual News en leonid@spirithit.com admin@spirithit.com Copyright © 2005 SpiritHit.com hourly 2 2005-04-20T20:02:00-05:00 http://news.spirithit.com/images/rss/spirithit.gif http://news.spirithit.com/ 137 24 On the shores of the Sea of Galilee, at Nof Ginosar Kibbutz, an ancient boat sits in a modern museum. It is the "Jesus Boat" as it has come to be known, because scientific testing dates… http://news.spirithit.com/index/sci_tech/more/discovery_of_ancient_boat_brings_peace/ 2005-04-20T20:02:00-05:00 Archeologists have announced that a sarcophagus possibly containing the remains of St. Paul was found directly behind a marble plaque with the inscription, “Apostle Paul, martyr,” below… http://news.spirithit.com/index/sci_tech/more/archeologists_discover_tomb_of_st_paul/ 2005-02-18T16:24:00-05:00 The Shroud of Turin is much older than suggested by radiocarbon dating carried out in the 1980s, according to a new study in a peer-reviewed journal, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)… http://news.spirithit.com/index/sci_tech/more/shroud_of_turin_may_be_older_than_thought/ 2005-01-28T11:17:01-05:00 Alan Wallace, one of the preeminent Western scholars of Tibetan Buddhism, stressed the importance of introspection as a mode of academic inquiry in the first annual Mary Interlandi '05 Lecture… http://news.spirithit.com/index/sci_tech/more/between_buddhist_introspection_and_western_science/ 2005-04-20T19:36:01-05:00 The Internet has become a vehicle for change in many things. Some moderate Muslims hope to use it for religious reform, as they engage in often heated discussions that are reshaping opinions and… http://news.spirithit.com/index/sci_tech/more/islam_and_the_power_of_the_internet/ 2005-04-13T19:49:00-05:00 The American co-inventor of the laser has won the world's biggest annual monetary award, the Templeton Prize, valued at more than $1.4 million. Physicist Charles Townes is only the third… http://news.spirithit.com/index/sci_tech/more/physicist_wins_templeton_prize/ 2005-03-10T19:15:01-05:00 It sounds impossible, but within the last few years, forensic scientists created a picture of Jesus from the shroud of Turin. Now they’ve back aged that image, taking off more than 20-years… http://news.spirithit.com/index/sci_tech/more/forensic_scientists_create_image_of_christ_as_a_child/ 2005-02-11T14:37:00-05:00 How to make plastics from citrus fruits, such as oranges, and carbon dioxide. In a paper published in a recent issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society (Sept. 2004), Geoffrey Coates,… http://news.spirithit.com/index/sci_tech/more/plastics_made_from_orange_peel/ 2005-01-27T17:32:00-05:00 What day of the week does your birthday fall on this year? If American astronomer Richard Henry has his way, you won't have to check your calendar - because your birthday will fall on… http://news.spirithit.com/index/sci_tech/more/us_astronomer_proposes_364_day_calendar/ 2005-01-14T14:37:00-05:00 Researchers have found that people use a number of different strategies to complete a jigsaw; at the extreme, a person can be either a ‘border obsessive’ or an ‘opportunistic’… http://news.spirithit.com/index/sci_tech/more/could_your_jigsaw_strategy_lead_to_a_christmas_argument/ 2004-12-29T13:05:00-05:00