Happy Caturday! (Photo credit: Sam Howzit) Mercury Spotting Contemplating the Sun Sentinels of the Arctic Looking Back at an Eclipsed Earth Lantern Saturn A Sagittarius Triplet M51: The Whirlpool Gal...
All images in this post are original works by the author, and are copyright 2012 Troy Loy Related articles Fine Friday Fractals For Fine Friends (buddhakat.wordpress.com) Fractals for Friday – ...
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In any discussion involving disagreement between two or more parties, in order for that discussion to actually accomplish something meaningful, I’ve noticed a few guidelines that should general...
It takes a powerful method, the use of a particle accelerator in this case, to restore a millennia-old manuscript by Archimedes, his codex “C,” which has been erased, cut up, written over...
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English: Religious symbols from the top nine organised faiths of the world according to Major world religions From left to right: 1st Row: Christian Cross, Jewish Star of David, Hindu Aumkar 2nd Row:...
English: Partial Lunar eclipse (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A Partial Eclipse Over Manila Bay A Close Pass of Saturn’s Moon Dione A Partial Solar Eclipse over Texas SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Launche...
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“It doesn’t seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these ato...
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So far so good, this is another consecutive week when I’ve found time to get off my duff and post an installment in this series. My time management skills are improving… For those with a ...
This is a Suthidruu warrior acolyte, with the three differing sorts of tentacular limbs. It’s not a very good depiction in my view, and dates from several years ago. I’m working on a much...
hat-tip to my tweep @LLstarlight for this one… Filed under: Music Videos Tagged: Dance, Kaleidoscope, Music, TED, Video
A call for the study of religions as natural phenomena and the responsible teaching of the truth, all of it, of all religions, to children, even the dirty little secrets their own faith’s elder...
For those among the newly deconverted, recognizing and accepting their unbeliefs can be painful at first. I found my own letting go of religion difficult, initially accompanied by a deep sense of los...
A terrific discussion by two guys in-the-know of one of the more promising overarching ideas for a workable “theory of everything.” Can we really hope to summarize the underlying nature o...
I’ve been revisiting some of my old ideas for a superhero setting, my Lovecraftian hat-tip to the “Aberrant” game I call Eldritch. In this setting, a bit different from some approac...
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I hope your Norse Storm Hammer God’s day is doing better than expected. This week, I’ve got a few interesting bookmarks that I just had to evilly inflict upon you, my unsuspecting readers...
“If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an ho...
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