Pieces of Skylight

NEW FORM OF LIFE FOUND!

NASA announcement: Arsenic-based life form discovered on Earth

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/02/AR2010120204183.html

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/nasa-finds-arsenic-life-form/

The Poetry of Science

Conversation between Neil Degrasse Tyson and Richard Dawkins.

George St. Pierre On Museums

"When I train, I love to take time off and fly to the Natural History Museum or an exhibition. I just love that. When you know your past, it will help you with your future… That’s why most of my friends are not fighters. Most of my friends are nerds like me." GSP, UFC champion

Darwin Coin!

Joe Rogan + Music

http://soundcloud.com/solowiowas-1/youre-a-fucking-human-being-joe-rogan-and-daft-punk

Daft Punk mashup with Joe Rogan's You're a F&*#ing Human Being

The God Helmet

Neuroscientist Michael Persinger uses helmet with solenoids to stimulate the brain with magnetic
fields inducing a sense of presence of beings such as angels, demons, ghosts, and aliens.


From episode one, "Is There a Creator?", of the Science Channel series "Through the Wormhole".

Big Bang Onward

BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Jupiter Loses A Stripe

NASA blog posts:


http://blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/NESPilotBlog/posts/post_1275576322241.html

Darwin BAMF

Dana Carvey is "DARWIN" - watch more funny videos

List of Natural Science History Museums!

Museum List Here

Improving Islams Image with Comic Books

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHErXmjgLHo

Superheroes save the world every day. But could they also change the way the rest of the world sees Islam? Naif-Al-Mutawa, a psychologist and writer from Kuwait, believes they can. He has developed a successful comic book series that features 99 Islamic superheroes battling for a better world.
The number 99 is no accident: each of the 99 superheroes embodies a virtue or name attributed to Allah. In a region where suicide-bombers are sometimes portrayed as role models, the comics offer a non-violent alternative for conflict resolution. That has angered some conservatives, but has not prevented the comic books from growing in popularity. In 2009, about one million of the comic books were sold world-wide. There's also an accompanying theme park in Kuwait and an animated cartoon series as well

The Mad Hatter's Secret Ingredient: Math

The first numbers that come to mind when thinking about Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland might be how much money the movie is raking in at the box office.

But numbers also appear to be woven in among the talking rabbits and smoking caterpillars of the original stories. Author Lewis Carroll was also a math teacher in Oxford, England, and mathematicians say the Alice books are full of algebraic lessons — such as why a raven is like a writing desk.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124632317

NPR
March 13, 2010

Comics

http://xkcd.com/

A webcomic of romance,
sarcasm, math, and language.

20 years

It's an anniversary!

Taken in 1990 by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, the "pale blue dot" photo shows what our planet looks like from four billion miles away. Earth is the tiny speck of light indicated by the arrow, and enlarged in the upper left-hand corner. The pale streak over Earth is an artifact of sunlight scattering in the camera's optics.


http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123614938

Darwin's Camera

NPR article

Parastou Forouhar

Creation

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122818161

Open Your Eyes

— Richard Dawkins (Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder)

Life and Beats under the Microscope

This is a song called "Zap Zap" by the electronic band Cut Copy.

SHERLOKIAN

“If I claim full justice for my art it is because crime is common (and) logic is rare.”

Sherlock Holmes, The Copper Beeches

www.sherlockian.net/

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/11/pl_screen/

TED VS Ramachandran: The neurons that shaped civilization