Jan 26 2012
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Australian Day Celebration
I celebrated a day early.
Washington at the Sydney Opera House last night.
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“ Eeny, meeny, miny, moe
— Me, culling books from my Kindle DX after I filled the sucker up.
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James Burke: Connections (1978)
If you can spare about 45 minutes you should watch an episode of Connections.
As well as been blown away that educated men actually wore zip-up suits with wide lapels and flared parts and that most of us back then figured we wouldn’t make it through to the end of the century without blowing ourselves up in an all out nuclear war, your mind will be totally blown away by how many ideas can be crammed into such a short period of time.
Along with Cosmos, Connections (and the follow up series) are the best science documentaries ever produced. They were done in the days when content was considered important. When ideas weren’t dumbed down to the lowest common denominator, and viewers were not considered stupid. When somebody actually talking and conveying information was much more important than inserting an unrelated animated piece of fluff.
Then again maybe I’m just getting grumpy as I get older.
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(via Udacity - Educating the 21st Century)
An online course to learn to program a robotic car taught by one of the guys that works on Google’s driverless car. Oh and did I mention it’s FREE!!!
Too bad I’ve already signed up for some courses put on by a spin-off of Stanford: and they are free as well.
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Anti-Choice people?
If God is on your side, why doesn’t he give you science to support your point of view? Why are you left making shit up like “PASS” or “partial birth abortion” or getting an abortion causes cancer? Or do you believe God wants you lying to girls and scaring them into doing what you want?
(via fuckyeahmyego)
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GM microbe breakthrough paves way for large-scale seaweed farming for biofuels | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Considering that many seaweed species grow up to 10 times faster than land based crops, it makes a lot of sense to use seaweed rather than land based food crops to make biofuel. And it doesn’t need fertiliser.
But with all good biofuel stories challenges remain, both economic and ignorance based fear of GM.
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Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday dear Rover. Happy Birthday to you.
NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity celebrates 8 years on Mars! Not bad for something that was supposed to only last a few months.
Science did that. And some damn fine engineering.
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“ The angry atheists had all the best lines
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(via Tim Minchin · Storm!!!!!!!!)
“What do you call alternative medicine that has been proved to work?
Medicine!”
