March 2012
Quote Of The Day: Must Listen: Neil deGrasse... →
“First of all, let’s clarify what the NASA budget is. Do you realize that the $850 billion dollar bailout, that sum of money is greater than the entire 50-year running budget of NASA?
And so when someone says, “We don’t have enough money for this space probe,” I’m asking, no, it’s not that you don’t have enough money, it’s that the...
“You can’t be a nerd because it’s cool. You have to be a nerd because it’s who...”
– Words of wisdom from my friend Cat (via nerdgirlproblems)
Rick Santorum calls Barack Obama the n-word
theillustratednerdgirl:
willcockrell:
theillustratednerdgirl:
Here.
He says it almost immediately. Just one syllable but it is totally fucking obvious.
Wooooooooooow.
Do a search on it. This happened Tuesday, and there’s no mention of it in the mainstream media =anywhere=. Hell, it’s not even on reddit.
This is the country we live in, y’all.
When I googled it last night I only got...
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The wonder of understanding; a review of The...
Glancing at the reviews for Brian Greene’s overview of how we view the stuff of which our universe is made, it seems that some people base their rating and opinion on how much they agree with the science, or how credible they find it. While I have read a fair few popular science books – especially in the areas of physics and cosmology, areas I find utterly fascinating and about which I am...
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Cycling, zen, history and geology
The weather is a little strange at the moment. Chilly nights are bringing a mist that lingers through the day. Sometimes it is burnt off before too long and the day becomes positively summery but at other times, like today, it slowly thins into a bright haze that makes everything more than a couple of hundred metres away increasingly vague and dreamlike. Today the brightness seemed so strong I...
