I’d say that this is one of the most amazing photos ever taken.
January 11, 2008 – 9:48 pm
I mean that in the best possibly way though. I’ve posted my first substantive diary there this evening. In two short hours my thoughts on skepticism and Kucinich’s recount of the 2008 New Hampshire presidential primary generated 80 comments and 19 people voted to put it on the recommended diary list. That’s a lot of [...]
Here’s something to apply some critical thinking to: Music Decoded From 600-Year-Old Carvings. [youtube]cy2Dg-ncWoY[/youtube]
In today’s Star: Former Gov. Fife Symington says now that those strange lights that appeared over Phoenix a decade ago were from another world and that he had a close encounter with an alien craft on March 13, 1997. “I’m a pilot and I know just about every machine that flies. It was bigger than [...]
Oh, the joys of a brilliant, mercury poisoned mind gone off to Parliament. Newton was also a member of the Parliament of England from 1689 to 1690 and in 1701, but his only recorded comments were to complain about a cold draft in the chamber and request that the window be closed.
This Wikipedia article on Zeno’s paradoxes is one of the most interesting things I have read in a long while. What I especially like about it, and derive great amusement from, is how calculus attempts to solve the paradox, but in the end only reaffirms it. In short, trying to use calculus to resolve the [...]
These photos, taken by the Cassini probe orbiting Saturn, blow my mind. Slightly Beneath Saturn’s Ring Plane Enceladus Near Saturn Alien worlds
February 7, 2006 – 6:29 pm
Sweden plans to be oil free by 2020: Sweden is to take the biggest energy step of any advanced western economy by trying to wean itself off oil completely within 15 years – without building a new generation of nuclear power stations. The attempt by the country of 9 million people to become the world’s [...]
November 10, 2005 – 11:13 pm
Kansas isn’t the only place where Intelligent Design has taken hold. Over a year ago the school board of Dover, PA also voted to put ID in the science curriculum. Parents have since sued the board, and a trial is currently under way. On Tuesday, in a victory for common sense, the voters of Dover [...]
November 8, 2005 – 11:41 pm
Six out of ten Kansas school board members think kids should be taught pseudoscience as if it were real science. TOPEKA, Kansas (AP) — At the risk of re-igniting the same heated nationwide debate it sparked six years ago, the Kansas Board of Education approved new public school science standards Tuesday that cast doubt on [...]