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Category Archives: Science
The Road Well Travelled & Celsias
Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.celsias.com/2007/10/31/the-road-well-travelled/ But his thought experiment exposes the one terrible fact to which our technological hubris blinds us: our dependence on biological production remains absolute. Civilisation is just a russeting on the skin of the biosphere, never … Continue reading
Climate Progress & Blog Archive & The link between temperature and mass
Stumbleupon Review of : http://climateprogress.org/2007/10/29/mass-extinction-global-warming/
Whitehouse Stonewalls DSCOVR Information Request | DeSmogBlog
Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.desmogblog.com/whitehouse-stonewalls-dscovr-information-request The saga continues… the Whitehouse Office of Administration refuses a Freedom of Information request to try and get information about why the Deep Space Climate Observatory was silently canned. By DeSmogBlog, now available on a … Continue reading
Do You Mind?
Stumbleupon Review of : http://somethingincredible.blogspot.com/ “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” ~ Carl Sagan Why do people kill? Why do we sacrifice ourselves to save others from dying? Why do we close our eyes and try to ignore … Continue reading
Do You Mind?: How bout them apples?
Stumbleupon Review of : http://somethingincredible.blogspot.com/2007/01/how-bout-them-apples.html I guess what I’m trying to say is that you can’t change bad human behavior without changing the bad situation. But at the same time, changing the situation won’t fix everything. There will always be … Continue reading
Do You Mind?: Aggressive Personalities, or, The Magic of Testosterone
Stumbleupon Review of : http://somethingincredible.blogspot.com/2007/01/aggressive-personalities-or-magic-of.html In response to these studies, a new physiological model was made, to distinguish between controlled and impulsive aggression. This model drew upon a body of work showing that low serotonin levels led to general impulsive … Continue reading
DemandDebate
Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.demanddebate.com/ Steven J. Milloy’s* latest highly-paid and pretentiously polished piece of political spin for his pusillanimous corporate paramours. This is a good example of trying to create false balance (like the debate between gravity, and intelligent … Continue reading
RealClimate & Start here
Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/05/start-here/ For those interested in the actual science of anthropogenic climate destabalisation, beyond that gone into by tabloid *spit* ‘journalists’ (who make money selling outrage and opinions to morons) or populist pundits who shill their half-wittery … Continue reading
The Science Creative Quarterly & FIBONACCI POEMS
Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.scq.ubc.ca/fibonacci-poems/ Shyness Fish dive deeply, mouths agape, fins proud and ragged, filtering the oceans apart until shimmer-hooked and then flopping in boat bottoms, when gills heave, gasp, drowning in air; eyes glaze like dropped marbles, clouded … Continue reading
wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/15-00/ff_musicophilia
Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/15-00/ff_musicophilia If music be the food of thought… Oliver Sacks on Earworms, Stevie Wonder and the View From Mescaline Mountain “I intensely dislike any reference to supernaturalism, but I think there can be profound mystical feelings … Continue reading