But what’s wrong with being didactic every now and then? (Or always, if that’s your thing…)
“…Elephants
are mostly
made of four
Elements…
via Boing Boing
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“We’re made of star-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. The journey for each of us begins here. [He points to his head.] We’re going to explore the cosmos in a ship of the imagination…”
I’ve been watching episodes of Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos: A Personal Journey”, now available on Hulu:
The next time you hear someone claim that humanists and freethinkers don’t believe in anything, point them to Cosmos — a rationalists’ Credo, a celebration of human curiousity and invention, and an inspiring summary of what Sagan called “the searching of 40,000 generations of our ancestors.”
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Photographs of the Super-Kamiokande neutrino observatory in Japan:
The Ceiling
Across the Water
More photos available here, via gargantua & pantagruel.
Read more about the observatory on Wikipedia.
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