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igowesh@DELETE-THISgmail.com (toomanytribbles) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:52:00 +0000

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keep me company

igowesh@DELETE-THISgmail.com (toomanytribbles) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:48:00 +0000

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intelligence squared - christopher hitchens and stephen fry vs the catholics

igowesh@DELETE-THISgmail.com (toomanytribbles) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:21:00 +0000

in 5 parts:

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EDIT: catholics completely pwned by fry and hitchens.

motion: the catholic church is a force for good in the world.

for
before: 678
after: 268
(-410)

against
before: 1102
after: 1876
(+774)

undecided
before: 346
after: 34
(-312)

a bunch of stars

igowesh@DELETE-THISgmail.com (toomanytribbles) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:41:00 +0000

view large at source at treelobsters

carl sagan day, live!

igowesh@DELETE-THISgmail.com (toomanytribbles) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:29:00 +0000

you can watch a live stream of the day's events at broward college, starting at 2pm eastern time (u.s.), which includes speakers phil plait, james randi and david morrison:

Live Broadcast by Ustream.TV

i learned about it on bad astronomy.

if you want to twitter this, use #sagan.

uri geller preying on the gullible in greece

igowesh@DELETE-THISgmail.com (toomanytribbles) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:40:00 +0000

WTF?!?

having lost his credibility decades ago in the united states, uri geller currently wanders the globe in search of gullible n00bs for prey. currently, he is hunting -- very successfully, i might add, in greece, where he's been granted a reality show on antenna, a major greek network... and i just saw several magazines and publications with him on the cover:

click image to source, a downloadable PDF [in greek] which includes, on the cover, a quote with his name, as follows, loosely translated:

'i worked for the FBI and i found a serial killer who had killed over 10 people. i showed his exact location on the map and they were able to arrest him in new york. he's still in prison.'

i'm recoiling in disgust.

i don't watch tv, but i was first alerted to this ridiculous situation on a post at gravity and the wind [in greek].

behold, the infamous geller, debunked by james randi:

happy saganseve

igowesh@DELETE-THISgmail.com (toomanytribbles) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:55:00 +0000

saganseve... it has a nice ring to it.
have you noticed? carl sagan was a hero of mine.

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november 9th, tomorrow -- saturday -- would have been sagan's 75th birthday, and it's now the first annual carl sagan day.

i've posted this before but this video is popping up in various places: it's sagan's last interview, on charlie rose, who interviewed him several times.

in 2 parts

and a glorious dawn deserves at least one encore:

i'm so glad his life, work and inspired vision is being celebrated... to me this says that there's hope for us yet.

if you're hooked and interested in more, have a look at my many posts under the carl sagan label.

scientists reproduce a building block of life in laboratory

igowesh@DELETE-THISgmail.com (toomanytribbles) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:47:00 +0000

NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary material, in the laboratory:

'NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary material, in the laboratory. they discovered that an ice sample containing pyrimidine exposed to ultraviolet radiation under space-like conditions produces this essential ingredient of life.

pyrimidine is a ring-shaped molecule made up of carbon and nitrogen and is the basic structure for uracil, part of a genetic code found in ribonucleic acid(RNA). RNA is central to protein synthesis, but has many other roles.

"we have demonstrated for the first time that we can make uracil, a component of RNA, non-biologically in a laboratory under conditions found in space," said michel nuevo, research scientist at NASA's ames research center, moffett field, calif. "we are showing that these laboratory processes, which simulate occurrences in outer space, can make a fundamental building block used by living organisms on earth."'

...read on at physorg...

dew-b-dew-b-dew

igowesh@DELETE-THISgmail.com (toomanytribbles) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:56:00 +0000

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take a picture of the dew, said the offspring, and pointed down. i'd never noticed it before.

telekinesis revealed

igowesh@DELETE-THISgmail.com (toomanytribbles) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:31:00 +0000

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red, simply

igowesh@DELETE-THISgmail.com (toomanytribbles) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:02:00 +0000

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another bit of autumness to add to flickr's definitive collection.

'why evolution is true' by jerry coyne, AAI 2009

igowesh@DELETE-THISgmail.com (toomanytribbles) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:05:00 +0000

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penned

igowesh@DELETE-THISgmail.com (toomanytribbles) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:08:00 +0000

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my fascination for calligraphy and fonts has been limited to purchasing a pen set a couple of decades ago... maybe that should be my next thing to learn how to do. for now, i'm limited to taking a picture of the pen.

the evolution of why by dan dennett

igowesh@DELETE-THISgmail.com (toomanytribbles) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:50:00 +0000

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enceladus!

igowesh@DELETE-THISgmail.com (toomanytribbles) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:10:00 +0000

rev 120 flyby raw preview:

click pic to ciclops for more

sheldon, wheaton and mee-maw

igowesh@DELETE-THISgmail.com (toomanytribbles) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:08:00 +0000

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for stella and koyan

the title's ice, of course

igowesh@DELETE-THISgmail.com (toomanytribbles) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:31:00 +0000

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a huge thanks to friends who commented yesterday on my crappy diptych with honest thoughts and constructive criticism -- i truly appreciate it.

... and i wouldn't mind it continuing on all my shots...

i had a really bad photography day yesterday -- i was at a complete loss for direction and everything i shot felt inadequate. this is the best i could come up with -- an earring shot in the dark with a little blue led flashlight as the single source of light.

homer's evolution

igowesh@DELETE-THISgmail.com (toomanytribbles) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:09:00 +0000

oldie but goodie:

stefana broadbent: how the internet enables intimacy

igowesh@DELETE-THISgmail.com (toomanytribbles) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:57:00 +0000

saying something stupid

igowesh@DELETE-THISgmail.com (toomanytribbles) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:24:00 +0000

at the risk of saying something stupid, i'm wondering... what do you really dislike about this? feel free to be brutal.

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robert wright: the evolution of compassion

igowesh@DELETE-THISgmail.com (toomanytribbles) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:18:00 +0000

from the video description:

'robert wright uses evolutionary biology and game theory to explain why we appreciate the golden rule ("do unto others..."), why we sometimes ignore it and why there’s hope that, in the near future, we might all have the compassion to follow it.'

ithinkicanithinkicanithinkicanithinkicanithinkican

igowesh@DELETE-THISgmail.com (toomanytribbles) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:24:00 +0000

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two more months to go on my 365 project... i'm riding solely on the fuel of positive thinking here, which is not my natural state of mind.

srsly, a 303 project sounds just as good.

bright lights and promises

igowesh@DELETE-THISgmail.com (toomanytribbles) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:45:00 +0000

the title is from a sad song by janice ian, one of four in this playlist... best enjoyed when feeling depressed and/or lonely... or if you just want to mellow.

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demonic candy

igowesh@DELETE-THISgmail.com (toomanytribbles) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:29:00 +0000

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carl-o-lantern #2

igowesh@DELETE-THISgmail.com (toomanytribbles) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:23:00 +0000

thanks to the sagan appreciation society