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I'm Ray Burke and I am your Channel Steward for Arts and Humanities. I am also the sub-channel steward for Ancient History. Over in the Betaville Zone is my Mars Zone. Check it out and have fun.

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Other Thinking about the future: 16 of 134
Our Last Great Century: This is it! The 21st century will be as great as humans will ever have it! Far from killing ourselves off through war, famine, global warming, nanotechnology, or indifference, and assuming we dodge the killer asteroid and survive other natural global catastrophes, then humans have an open and progress... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Energy Issues Anticipating a life without oil: 4 of 33
Is there an end to oil? There is a big misconception about the Oil Age: that it will someday end. Well, it will never truly end. For some reason, people anticipate that oil will eventually run out or will be phased out to introduce new energy technologies and reduce carbon dioxide, but oil will be with us for a very long tim... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Stars: 16 of 131
Stars: Do stars cry in the middle of the star-lit night about life, death and the loneliness of light? Are they sentient and sensitive to the screams of the void within which they swim upon gravity buoyed? Are they proud of their magnitude, their velocity and hue as they peer down at vacuum from which particles spew? Can the... More..
Arts & Humanities > Ancient History Fall of the Roman empire: 2 of 16
Factors in the Fall of the Roman Empire: The world has seen the rise and fall of many empires. They have peppered the continents, some lasting for a thousand years, others for a few centuries or less, but they have undeniably influenced other spheres of life beyond their own homelands. But no matter how benign or powerful th... More..
Arts & Humanities > Comic Books & Graphic Novels Comic books: Marvel Universe versus the DC Universe: 1 of 8
Superhero Icons: Why have some comic book characters remained more durable than others? For seven decades DC comics has sustained the market for their characters, reinventing them for modern times, while their biggest competitor, Marvel, has been bringing gritty realism for fifty years in its modern incarnation. The Big Two ... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Thoughts on God Questioning the reality of God: 3 of 23
Dinner with God: So, I'm at the top table with God, a few archangels, angels, and fellow newly deceased, (incredible, as I am basically a non-believer) and I ask the question: "God, are you really real?" The various heavenly dinner table conversations go quiet and I hear an angel mutter, "Hear we go, again. Not another one."... More..
Sciences > Astronomy Do you believe that aliens have already visited our planet?: 6 of 44
Why aliens visit the Earth: In 2001, a conference held by the Disclosure Project, a group who investigate the truth about alien visits to Earth, revealed that over the years 57 alien species had been identified. But if this was true, why would aliens visit Earth, a primitive, backward planet with an epic history of violence?... More..
Relationships & Family > Dating Dilemmas Looking for Mr. or Miss "Right": 3 of 22
Finding Miss Right: Now that I've started my fourth decade, finding Miss Right has started to enter my mind. Do I watch out while shopping, in the laundrette, or in pubs and clubs? Do I internet date, catch her eye while on the tube or bus, or just walking down the street? Should I cast my net far and wide in a sea of strang... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Religion & Spirituality (Other) Can intelligent design be considered a science: 4 of 29
The flaws of ID: Thank you ID. Once again, a pseudoscience has shown itself up to be a lame duck because of its innate flaws. Intelligent Design is the idea that life is too complicated to have arisen without the intervention of an intelligent and/or supernatural agent. Intelligent Design was supposed to be a rival to the sc... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Heaven, Hell & Afterlife Is Heaven a real place or a state of being?: 8 of 56
God in heaven or heaven in God? The great scientist and experimenter JBS Haldane once said that maybe "heaven was in God..." rather than God being in heaven. The context was the beginning of the Space Race when Russia had sent up Laika (the dog) into space and thus held an early lead in the race. Haldane wondered if because ... More..