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This is fantastic: Margaret Wertheim on the beautiful math of coral | Video on TED.com

April 21, 2009 – 12:19 am

A project everyone should know about.
I have always been into the beauty in simple mathematic representation, and in looking to nature for our answers.
TED Talks Margaret Wertheim leads a project to re-create the creatures of the coral reefs using a crochet technique invented by a mathematician — celebrating the amazements of the reef, and deep-diving […]

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“Holy Gargantuan Penguin, Batman!”

June 26, 2007 – 6:11 am

This story’s just one oxymoron after the next….(click photo to read more)

BTW–this post has nothing to do with Batman.
(Found at BBC News)
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Fallen Heroes: Mr. Wizard Dies at age 89.

June 13, 2007 – 3:49 am

Ouch. This one hurts.

Hats off to all of the creative educators who can engage kids in subjects they’d otherwise find boring. Rest in Peace Mr. Wizard. You sir, were one of the great ones.
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Cloning, stem cells, and playing God.

March 29, 2007 – 10:40 am

We were getting close. We were almost there. We could smell it even. Baby steps, baby steps, inching us toward a passably intelligent dialogue on the merits of stem-cell and cloning technology. Then the Frankenstein experiments had to start.
Ay Chihuahua!
Look, I recognize that a lot of researchers are simply following the bread crumbs, trying to […]

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Pale blue dot.

March 14, 2007 – 7:41 pm

YouTube contributor ice core scientist has put together a very cool and thought-provoking video based on Carl Sagan’s book Pale Blue Dot, which I blogged briefly here.
Enjoy.
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Japanese Proverbs - #1

February 24, 2007 – 8:53 am

猿も木から落ちる。
 

Saru mo ki kara ochiru.
Literally: Even monkeys fall from trees.
Meaning: Everyone makes mistakes. / Nobody’s perfect.

(taken from Wikiquote)
This is one of my favorite Japanese proverbs. It is simple and straightforward, and at the same time quite powerful. However, I’m not sure I agree with the meaning given above. For me the imagery is something deeper […]

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Paradoxical Undressing

February 15, 2007 – 9:38 pm

Note to myself when I am hypothermic:
Though many hypothermia sufferers have undressed, no one has ever undressed and lived.
Got that?
Good. Now tuck that little gem of information away for a, erm, snowy day.
***link has been updated. sorry for the confusion.***
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On the Brink of a Bee Catastrophe

February 15, 2007 – 9:25 pm

A friend sent this story to me the other day. I’m not sure whether I’m more concerned that reckless pesticide practices are probably to blame, or that the fate of such a large cross-section of the honeybee population–and in turn the ecology that they support–seems to be in the hands of commercial beekeepers. As I […]

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