T he turn of the millennium attracted levels of public attention and excitement that far surpassed those of previous New Year’s changeovers. Concern about the reliability of computer systems, terrorist attacks, and other possible doomsday scenarios contributed to a heightened sense of anticipation worldwide. In addition, the holiday and New Year’s season can be simultaneously stressful and joyo...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientistsʼ Doomsday Clock, first introduced in 1947, recently movedthe fictional clock forward; it now rests at 100 seconds to midnight, or from destroying our selves. numerous threats posed by nuclear weapons, pandemics, weaponized technology, and catastrophic climate change create an ʻenvironment miseryʼ which all action—and inaction—is fraught with risk. Two recen...

In this work, we present a Big Rip scenario within the framework of generalized Brans-Dicke (GBD) theory. GBD theory, consider an evolving BD parameter along with self-interacting potential. An anisotropic background is considered to have more general view cosmic expansion. The theory cosmological constant presented as effective fluid relativity which favours phantom field dominated phase. mode...

In this paper, I present a solution to the Doomsday argument (DA, for short) based on a third type of solution, by contrast to on the one hand, the Carter-Leslie view and on the other hand, the EckhardtSowers-Sober analysis. The present line of thought is based on the fact that both aforementioned analyses are based on an inaccurate analogy. After discussing the imperfections of both models, I ...

For the past several months, the media, the public, scientific groups, and a key U.S. government advisory panel on biosecurity have wrestled with how to deal with two unpublished studies they thought described the creation of a bird flu virus capable of triggering an influenza pandemic with the potential to kill millions of people. The New York Times even billed it as a doomsday virus. But now,...

ASP Arts War Room Tops The scenes at the base are good, but those in the War Room surpass them. Hilarious are the clashes between the inert President (Sellers) and the childishly irresponsible Gen. "Buck" Turgidson (George C. Scott). By now the plans, put into operation through a failure of "the human element" (Ripper), have become so entangled in the safeguards built into our nuclear deterrent...

“Economic burden,” “regulatory maze,” and “lawyer’s paradise” are a sample of the epithets lobbed against the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) before it was signed into law in 1990 [2-4]. A quarter-century later, similar doomsday-like forecasts plague efforts to assist disenfranchised people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a condition that has since skyrocketed in prevalence [5-7]. Th...