January 2012
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Senseless Philosophy
Is the exchange rate between US Dollars and Republic Credits affected by the rise and fall of the stock market? Or if an ewok sneezes on Endor’s moon, does it cause a sandstorm in the Saharan Desert?
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At Home
Who needs to go to the gym to do exercise when you got dubstep on Pandora.
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“We don’t get to pick who we fall in love with, and it doesn’t happen...”
– Search Quotes
December 2011
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November 2011
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September 2011
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July 2011
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Google's Gregor Logo
Gotta love Google’s logo for today, in honor of Gregor Mendel’s 189th birthday
May 2011
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Great Song
You’ve got a friend in me You’ve got a friend in me When the road looks rough ahead And you’re miles and miles From your nice warm bed Just remember what your old pal said Boy, you’ve got a friend in me You’ve got a friend in me You’ve got a friend in me You’ve got a friend in me You’ve got troubles, well I’ve got ‘em too There...
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“Each of the great Western monotheistic traditions sees God as truth, love, and...”
– Dr. Kenneth Miller, excerpt of “Faith and Reason” from Finding Darwin’s God.
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April 2011
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Questions of life.
Will there be dinosaurs in Heaven?
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Premature babies 'more sensitive to pain', study... →
Premature babies feel pain more acutely than healthy newborns largely due to the invasive hospital treatments they receive, experts believe.
“Being born prematurely and undergoing intensive care affects pain processing in the infant brain” - Dr Rebeccah Slater, UCL
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Premature birth gene 'discovered' →
fuckyeahdevelopmentalbiology:
A gene linked to premature births has been discovered, scientists in the US and Finland have said.
The researchers hope their study, published in PLoS Genetics, could eventually lead to a test for women at risk of a pre-term birth.
In the UK, one in 10 babies is born before the 37th week of pregnancy, with potential problems for their health.
The Royal College...
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Paper mache?
pictures of my paper mache dino will come soon (yeah, it’s been a while, almost a year since he was started back in june 2009, so it is about time i finish him)
all i gotta do is finish painting and then seal up the work with varnish, then it will be done and i will be able to start work on a new project :)
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Fair Tax?
I’ve been hearing about Fair tax lately and about how it is a better solution to our economy than the current income tax. This has got me thinking about the dynamics of such a system. I am not an economist or anything, but I try to be analytical about anything that deals with money when it comes to laws and such.
Here is what i have heard about Fair Tax, 1) it replaces the income tax and...
March 2011
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“I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the...”
– Darwin (writing in Origin of Species), 1859 (via fuckyeahdevelopmentalbiology)
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Nurture v. Nature
during break time at work we started having a discussion about whether homosexuality is something a person is born with or something they choose as an alternative to heterosexuality. Our discussion didn’t get too deep, nor were the arguments fully processed, before we had to get back to work, but i kept thinking of how to address the issue. In the end i decided on an analogy i felt was...
February 2011
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On Time, Science, Creation, and the Evolution of...
I’ve been reading Finding Darwin’s God By Kenneth Miller, and i must say it is meeting my expectations. I expected to find a reasonable approach to the debate (still?) between evolutionary scientists and creation scientists, given that Dr. Miller is a leading participant in such debates. While i find his stance in this book a tad too heavy-handed against fundamental creationists, it is...
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“How deserted lies the city,
once so full of people!
How like a widow is she,...”
– Lamentations 1:1 (NIV)
Hebrew
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Let The Right One In
just finished watching “Let the Right One In”, the Swedish original to the American film, “Let Me In”. i must say that i did like it, however, i am not entirely used to European films yet. of course, i do love vampire movies, so i am definitely planning on watching “Let Me In”.
I was very impressed with the snippet of “The Hobbit” that is in one...
January 2011
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December 2010
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House Votes to Repeal 'Don't Ask' →
“Congress took a small step toward allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military Wednesday as the House voted, again, to repeal the 17-year-old ban on military gays.”
“Opponents of repeal took heart from the testimony earlier this month of the military chiefs, three of whom told the Senate Armed Services Committee that they needed more time to prepare their troops...
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Horticulturists Develop World's First Black... →
“Horticulturists have developed the world”s first black petunia plant for next summer’s gardens.”
“The dramatic new flowers, named Black Velvet, were created using natural breeding techniques to turn them a dark black colour”
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November 2010
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The Case Against Banning Four Loko →
“Four Loko is a popular alcoholic drink that is facing a growing backlash. Four states have banned it, and now the company has agreed to stop shipping Four Loko to New York. So what is this fearsome concoction? Well it’s essentially a pre-packaged version of a common cocktail concept: mixing a lot of alcohol with a lot of caffeine.”
“Drinking one quickly makes someone...
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Clear New Insights into the Genetics of Depression →
“The psychologist Rollo May once described depression as “the inability to construct a future”.”
“According to the National Institute for Mental Health this “inability” can affect up to 14.8 million Americans – 7% of the population – in a given year, at an annual cost of $100 billion. That’s about five times the renewable energy budget of the United States. We hear many things...
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October 2010
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