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Human motivation exists in a five-tiered structure. The five tiers from lowest to highest are sociological needs, personal security needs, social needs, esteem needs and the penultimate need: self-actualization.
Turns out, the meteorite that supposedly killed the dinosaurs may have been 300,000 years late.
Want to know the secret to personalities and personal success? Use hair part theory. It worked for Margaret Thatcher.
The explanation for 'Lost' is Jason Hunter's Time Loop theory. But you have to see it to really get it.
A theory developed by Pavlov that shows one can change a stimulus part of a stimulus-response pattern (like a flinch from a loud noise) to something neutral (a blue light turning on) and generate the same response. In this example, the blue light could cause the subject to flinch.
With its ambiguous cliff hangers and ever-shifting time-scape, ABC Television's 'Lost' has generated more theories than any television show in history. See the best of the best here.
BBC News Professor's alien life 'seed' theory claimed BBC News The astrobiologist has helped developed the panspermia theory which suggests an extra-terrestrial origin for life. He argues for a cycle of life as microbes ... See all stories on this topic Renowned professor brings...
Inflation theory, which posits that the universe ballooned from subatomic scale to the size of a soccer ball during its first 10-33 seconds, has had great ...
Great man creat history through their actions, leadership, art, and innovation. At least, Carlyle thought so in the 19th century.
Now that they've had two days to think about it, what can the Internet's brainiest 'Lost' theorists tell us about the show's final season?
Inflation theory, which posits that the universe ballooned from subatomic scale to the size of a soccer ball during its first 10-33 seconds, has had great ...
There are a million different ingenious theories out there that explain this or that certain phenomenon and many are very complicated. See which one are surfacing on the interwebs today.
With its ambiguous cliff hangers and ever-shifting time-scape, ABC Television's 'Lost' has generated more theories than any television show in history. See the best of the best here.
Nick Jonas (and the Administration) has just released a new song and it's called "Conspiracy Theory."
Listen to the newest single from his upcoming album "Who I Am" below:
Amateur historian Rick Rogers has spent decades developing a theory that either Dutch or Spanish traders visited Hawaii before Captain Cook's 1778 arrival. Maps from 1589 showing an approximation of Hawaii's shape and location; remains of a 1664 women indicating she had syphilis and the disappearance of 5 Spanish ships plying the Manila to Acapulco trade in the 1500 and 1600s make his case.
Scholars at the global warming skeptics thinktank, "The Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI)" say ocean acidification theory is a scare tactic ignores Cambrian data, the chemistry of CO2 and the alkaline affect of ocean rocks.
Man-created (anthropogenic) carbon emissions are changing the PH in earth’s oceans, causing acidification which will rapidly destroy coral reefs and anything in the ocean that contains calcium carbonate. Scientists conclude that unabated CO2 emissions over the coming centuries may produce changes in ocean pH that are greater than any experienced in the past 300 million years.
Inspired by Ghandi and refined by E.F. Schumacher appropriate technology argues that technology adoption should be done in context with the local community and mindful of its potential consequences. Simply put, not all new tech is good tech at any time for all people.
Diffusion of innovations theory focuses on the stages an individual takes when adopting a new technology and the types of adopters. E.M. Rogers argued that diffusion has four stages; knowledge, persuasion, decision, implementation. Rogers divided technology adopters into 5 groups: innovator, early adopters, early majority, late majority and laggards.
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