Science as a way of life
I am working on some very smart things to say here. Really. Meanwhile, there's this and this. Welcome.
July 31, 2007
Category: Prime Stream
Humans evolved over millions of years. It wasn't inevitabe, it wasn't predictable, it wasn't random either. It just was. It has taken incomprehensible amount of time to evolve the complexity needed in our neural clumps to hold reasoned representations of...
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Category: Creative commons
Art could be passive and contemplative, like gawking at a Dali painting and letting it drug you into a state of inexplicable weirdness. Art could also be active and participatory, like the thousands of nude cyclicts in Amsterdam. How about...
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Category: Prime Stream
The Hindu on the Asian cup win of Iraqi team. "In 90 minutes, 11 men on a soccer pitch thousands of miles away have made millions of Iraqis happy while 250 MPs, our government, the mullahs, imams and warlords can't...
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July 30, 2007
Category: Prime Stream
42 baby guinea pigs from his two nights of passion. link...
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Category: Creative commons
Hop over and drink scifi till you hallucinate about strange horizons. via bb...
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Category: Creative commons
The Tempest, Act 4, Scene 1 Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd...
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Yesterday afternoon, I took the car out and after driving a few minutes noticed the air over the bonnet shimmering and undulating like in a mirage. I have seen this before and it's not good news. The last time I...
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July 26, 2007
Category: Creative commons
A new essay has surfaced at TheScian.com. It has got pictures and you can click and hear me mumble and pretend to read it. Whitby, a seaside town in North Yorkshire, is home to Dracula's cave, gothic gulls, and...
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Category: Prime Stream
A good overview of the hardware, software and the vision that powers the OLPC Laptop named XO. As the author says, XO pushes laptop technology to a higher level of harware and software excellence. ...development tools bundled with Sugar include...
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