Elsewise Media Scrapbook » science http://scrapbook.elsewisemedia.com A diary of creative inputs Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:28:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 They Might Be Didactic http://scrapbook.elsewisemedia.com/2009/09/they-might-be-didactic/ http://scrapbook.elsewisemedia.com/2009/09/they-might-be-didactic/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:21:10 +0000 Matt Blair http://scrapbook.elsewisemedia.com/?p=809

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.”

]]> http://scrapbook.elsewisemedia.com/2009/04/a-personal-journey/feed/ 0 The Light in the Neutrino Cathedral http://scrapbook.elsewisemedia.com/2009/03/the-light-in-the-neutrino-cathedral/ http://scrapbook.elsewisemedia.com/2009/03/the-light-in-the-neutrino-cathedral/#comments Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:01:47 +0000 Matt Blair http://scrapbook.elsewisemedia.com/?p=411

Photographs of the Super-Kamiokande neutrino observatory in Japan:

The Ceiling

The Ceiling

Across the Water

Across the Water

More photos available here, via gargantua & pantagruel.

Read more about the observatory on Wikipedia.

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