February 2012
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“All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike- and yet...”
– Albert Einstein
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January 2012
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December 2011
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October 2011
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Whitehouse.gov Petition: Fund Energy from Thorium... →
What if we could build a nuclear reactor that offered no possibility of a meltdown, generated its power inexpensively, created no weapons-grade by-products, and burnt up existing high-level waste as well as old nuclear weapon stockpiles? And what if the waste produced by such a reactor was radioactive for a mere few hundred years rather than tens of thousands? It may sound too good to be true,...
September 2011
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I just heard a Jurassic Park theme soundbyte after a story on NPR about T. Rex bones. The story was great but that soundbyte? Perfection.
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August 2011
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Watchxevilious:
Must see Ted Talk
Finding Planets Around Other Stars by Lucianne Walkowicz (of NASA’s Kepler):
How do we find planets — even habitable planets — around other stars? By looking for tiny dimming as a planet passes in front of its sun, TED Fellow Lucianne Walkowicz and the Kepler mission have found some 1,200 potential new planetary systems. With new techniques, they may even find...
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Astronomy Calendar of Celestial Events for... →
A handy quick reference to notable celestial events. Very cool. From the site’s description:
This astronomy calendar of celestial events contains dates for notable celestial events including moon phases, meteor showers, eclipses, occultations, oppositions, conjunctions, and other interesting events. Most of the astronomical events on this calendar can be seen with unaided eye, although...
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“Never more than at this moment in the modern era have we needed a profound...”
– Seth MacFarlane, speaking on the upcoming sequel to Cosmos
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Fox Orders 13-Episode Sequel To Carl Sagan's... →
After recently signing on to reboot one classic TV show, Hanna-Barbera’s The Flintstones, Seth MacFarlane is taking on another iconic TV series, Carl Sagan’s Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. Fox has greenlighted Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey, a 13-part docu-series from Family Guy creator MacFarlane and late Sagan’s original collaborators – his widow, writer/producer Ann Druyan and...
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July 2011
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“Reach me down my Tycho Brahe, I would know him when we meet,
When I share my...”
– Sarah Williams [1837-1868] “The Old Astronomer to her Pupil”
A fantastic annotated version can be found here.
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“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved...”
– Sarah Williams [1837-1868] Excerpt from her poem, “The Old Astronomer to his Pupil”
My research had led me to believe that this is commonly misattributed to Galileo, which he is widely quoted to have said, though it cannot be found in any of his works directly. It was almost certainly...
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WatchSpace Shuttle Time Lapse [HD Video] by NASA Goddard Photo and Video on Flickr.
Segment 1: NASA’s Shuttle Discovery (STS131), while docked to the ISS, captured these images on April 12, 2010 as it moved from the night side of the Earth to the daytime. In the process the Aurora Borealis can be seen on the Earth’s limb. A solar panel from the ISS and a docked Soyuz module can be seen...
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Reasons to Cancel Your Television Service...
1. Have more time to do everything else. Life it too short to spend even a few hours a week (which adds up to years later in life) sitting in front of a TV screen, essentially just passing the time. There’s a lot of living to be done out there. You will absolutely not regret investing time in living, especially when compared to wasting it on a potentially harmful pastime. See next reason.
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Koch, Exxon Mobil Among Corporations Helping Write... →
climateadaptation:
Must read. Bloomberg blows the lid off of a DC front group that’s funded by anti-environmental corporations with major stakes in reversing regulations. The group drafts bills for Republican legislators, who then bring the issue to the floor and public to attack climate change, EPA, enviro-regs, and more.
Source: Bloomberg
Corporations are “paying for an opportunity to...
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STOP THE INTERNET
mockingnerd:
I HAVE FOUND THE GREATEST GIF OF ALL
Must have this on blog
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“My variation on James’s title is intended to convey that science opens the way...”
– Ann Druyan, Introduction to The Varieties of Scientific Experience by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
muranyi asked: i also wanted to ask how you like the carl sagan book your reading? 'A Personal View of the Search for God ' i would def recommend shadows of our forgotten ancestors too. so tell me is it worth reading?
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“[…] science is not done in a vacuum. It is done in a social context, and the...”
– Lawrence Krauss (via scipsy)
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