December 2009
19 posts
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Science and Art
Three really neat little projects combining art and science to educate and interest people. Experience the Planets is a site that has artistic interpretations of the planets. Scenes that we have been unable to photograph or see yet, rendered by artists that have immersed themselves in the science of their object. The updates are coming slowly, but what’s there sure is purdy. We Choose...
An Elderly T-rex Trying to Eat Rats
The bones of The Music Industry of the 20th century will have been picked clean well within our lifetime. There will perhaps be one large studio remaining which will pull in it’s revenue by releasing a steady stream of nameless, faceless, background noise that will be piped into malls, restaurants and the most tasteless of nightspots. This may sound rather bleak, but most of the smart money...
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Biology Ramblings
The year was 2003 and I was a young, former Atheist, Christian college student (which is exactly as exciting as it sounds), fresh faced and full of life. I had had a few discussions with my bible study group about the relationship between science and religion. I saw no reason for a conflict between the two, including the evil materialistic faith of evolution. It happened that there was a...
The ten best documentaries of 2009 →
(via azspot)
Note: I will need to see almost all of these.
The results of Slate's "write like Sarah Palin"... →
robot-heart-politics:
unburyingthelead:
First place: “One night after a long day of campaigning, when the haters had made my spirits reach a nadir, I looked into Todd’s eyes, which were as blue as the stripes on Old Glory, and too representing truth and loyalty, and he looked back at me with a twinkle of determination which I hadn’t seen since I told him my goal of having another baby in...
Please Be Brilliant or Get Out of The Way →
“As a pastor, my job is to encourage, to support. I never take sides.”
– Boing Boing on the Bullshit of Rick Warren
