LrbeverThis plushie is awesome!
She is for cole3753
LrbeverYup, because if Bits and Nibbles were at my house, you'd forget I exist.
LrbeverGoing to have to try some of these.
LrbeverSnow kitteh vs. The Colorful Octopus!
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LrbeverThey have I heart bacon shirts and why was I not informed?
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LrbeverBecause there's no room for Creationists when there's science at foot!
Creationist Danny Faulkner (below) of Answers In Genesis appeared on the “Janet Mefferd Show” late last week to complain about how Cosmos is being totally unfair. You see, it’s just promoting science. It’s not giving equal time to bullshit.
Mefferd: Do they do any interviews with scientists themselves during this whole thing? And do they ever give a Creationist any time?
Faulkner: Well, no. Creationists aren’t even on the radar screen for them; they wouldn’t even consider us plausible at all. I don’t recall having seen any interviews with people — that may yet come — but it’s based upon the narration of the host and various types of little video clips… cartoons, things like that.
Mefferd: Boy, but when you have so many scientists who simply do not accept Darwinian evolution, it seems to me that that might be something to throw in there. You know, the old, “some scientists say this; others disagree and think this,” but that’s not even allowed.
Faulkner: No, there’s not even the recognition that abiogenesis, belief in that is contrary to good science… Consideration of special Creation is definitely not open for discussion it would seem.
Of course, Faulkner has this crazy idea that Creationism and evolution are deserving of equal time even though only evolution is backed up by the evidence… and considering how little time is allocated to legitimate science programming these days, we should be seeing Neil deGrasse Tyson making the argument for equal time, not a Creationist.
Tell you what: I’m sure Cosmos will give you equal time on the show as soon as pastors start giving equal time to atheists in church. That makes just as much sense as whatever Faulkner said.
Faulkner is the same guy, by the way, who recently tried to explain away the whole gravitational waves discovery by saying science changes, so let’s not put our trust in it.
(Thanks to Frank for the link)
LrbeverThey did a poll to see the best supporting character of season 4 was. Take a look at who won.
LrbeverThey look so young, lol
I’ll just leave this here.
LrbeverWhile this is fan made, the rock looks like the one on the show but the one on the show is smaller.
LrbeverAre we bibliotaphs?
bibliotaph
n. a hoarder of books
In the rare book collection of the archives at Caltech is a copy of Adrien-Marie Legendre’s 1808 text on number theory. It comes from the collection of Eric Temple Bell, who taught mathematics at Caltech from 1926 to 1953. Inside the book is an inscription in Bell’s handwriting:
This book survived the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 18 April, 1906. It was buried with about 600 others, in a vacant lot, before the fire reached the spot. The house next door to the lot fell upon the cache; the tar from the roof baked the 4 feet of dirt, covering the books, to brick, and incinerated all but 4 books, of which this is one. Signed: E. T. Bell. Book buried just below Grace Church, at California and Stockton Streets. House number 729 California Street.
During the Great Fire of London in 1666, Samuel Pepys came upon Sir William Batten burying his wine in a pit in his garden. Pepys “took the opportunity of laying all the papers of my office that I could not otherwise dispose of” and later buried “my Parmazan cheese, as well as my wine and some other things.” I don’t know whether he ever recovered them.
LrbeverdeGrasse Tyson continues to be a growing hero of mine.
SkeptiSketch‘s latest video takes an awkwardly-worded, downright-weird question asked of Neil deGrasse Tyson at one of his talks, and the fabulous response given by Tyson, and puts it all together with a stunning visual:
LrbeverAwwwww.. this is so cute.
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LrbeverWinter Wrapup! YAY! Because tomorrow spring is here! I have got to have you hear the original song before you tackle this literal version.
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His questionable decision to debate Creationist Ken Ham notwithstanding, here’s an excellent video of how Bill Nye became “the Science Guy”:
(via Boing Boing)
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The human brain is all about interpretation. It gathers information coming in from the senses and interprets it as something meaningful to the person owning the brain. This might be a pain response to a hot surface or a pleasure response to an appealing visual effect.
Because the brain is so heavily reliant on being fed information from the senses, when you deprive it of this flow, strange things can happen. Spend some time in a sensory deprivation tank and you will likely start to hallucinate at the very least.
But, you can achieve a similar result with some every day household items. Grab your portable radio and tune it off station until you get a steady flow of static. Now, take a ping pong ball, cut it in half and tape one half over each of your eyes. Lie down next to the radio and wait.
After a little while the brain will start to get bothered about not receiving any meaningful information from your two most powerful senses and it will start creating things on it's own.
The effect is known as the Ganzfeld effect and while results will vary per person, most folk report seeing vivid hallucinations within a few minutes.
LrbeverWhat's so sad is that they like to use that word on themselves these days.
LrbeverHoly crap, the driver with the camera is going way to damn fast.
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