January 2011
WatchOnboard the Lunar Rover - 16 mm film sequence of driving the Lunar Rover.
The Flaming Lips - Knives Out (Radiohead cover)
“The global fishing fleet is estimated to be two and a half times greater than...”
– The End of the Line, pg 139
The word theory in 'the theory of evolution' does... →
The concepts of ‘theory’ and ‘hypothesis’ have specific meanings in a scientific context. While theory in colloquial usage may denote a hunch or conjecture, a scientific theory is a set of principles that explains observable phenomena in natural terms.
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Remembering a bad week for NASA - Challenger,...
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
– Harry S. Truman
Human beings are overconfidence machines. Paul J.... →
crookedindifference:
Ima Robot – Ruthless
Alex...
“As one might guess, the praxis of male feminist epistemology calls for different...”
– Steven P. Schacht, The Promise of a Male Feminist Epistemology, 2001. (via malefeminist)
Speaker Boehner, where are the jobs bills?
pantslessprogressive:
Full applause to Eclectablog for compiling the following list.
So far in the 112th Congress, the Republicans haven’t introduced a single jobs bill. However, from the Republicans, as of today, we have at least:
16 bills to repeal all or parts of the Affordable Care Act
7 bills/resolutions to require a balanced federal budget
5 bills to repeal the estate tax (which...
The Section Quartet - Time is Running Out...
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“I believe we inherit a great river of knowledge, a flow of patterns coming from...”
– David Brooks in What the science of human nature can teach us.
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept...”
– Harvey Fierstein
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According to the California Academy of Sciences,... →
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Halliburton's stock price jumped 7.6 percent the... →
Feminist Blogs You Should Be Reading
abbyjean:
all of these women are amazing. they are women who, as ilykadamen wrote, “move beyond feminism-as-brand-identity; I want to read women who smash that paradigm, women who subvert it, women who resist it; women who mulch it all up and plant seeds in it.” (list compiled by ilykadamen, dorianisms and meloukhia, any omissions are my failure of memory rather than intentional exclusions.)
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Feminist Blogs You Should Be Reading
abbyjean:
all of these women are amazing. they are women who, as ilykadamen wrote, “move beyond feminism-as-brand-identity; I want to read women who smash that paradigm, women who subvert it, women who resist it; women who mulch it all up and plant seeds in it.” (list compiled by ilykadamen, dorianisms and meloukhia, any omissions are my failure of memory rather than intentional exclusions.)
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