Friday, October 25, 2013

youtube for the day/ William Shatner narrated summary of the scientific view of the universe

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I've shown there's differences between some of the connections found by James Burke in his 'Connections video series/book.  I...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

youtubes for the day/ more space colonies

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I'm sure I've shown the above 70's space colonization video before; but, I recently found the 1960 video shown below. Th...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

astro picture for the day and extras/bloopers and more

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Comet Hale-Bopp. Credit: NASA Well, I suppose I'm making this post more to update about Comet ISON.  Scientists have apparently exc...
Friday, October 4, 2013

quote for the day and some more

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"Nothing is more fruitfull-all mathematicians know it-than those obscure analogies, those disturbings reflections of one theory on anot...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

thought for the day/ Rock of Gibralter: last stand of the Neanderthals?

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Gorham's cave Neanderthal bones were found in Gibraltar caves as early as 1848. I saw an National Geographic magazine about...
Saturday, September 21, 2013

thought for the day/ Barry Mazur's "Imagining Numbers: in particular the square root of -15/ Permisability

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ESA/NASA Hubble Space Telescope image I haven't read the entire book yet; I just got it.  I wasn't sure if i'd even like th...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

quote for the day/astro picture for the day

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Credit: ESO. Acknowledgement: Martin Pugh "What I cannot create, I do not understand." - Richard Feynman This is apparentl...