February 2012
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“I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I...”
– Stephan Grellet (via corona-borealis)
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“If our language kept pace with our science, than the phrase ‘have a heart’ - to conjure sympathy - would instead be - have a mind.”
- Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist/Director, Hayden Planetarium @ the Natural Museum of Science & History
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“We have landed on a world where the faint sun glints off methane lakes, seen...”
– Brian Cox, Why Quantum Theory Is So Misunderstood (via ikenbot)
Scinerds: How exercise fuels the brain →
runslikeapenguin:
The New York Times has a really cool article today called “How exercise fuels the brain.” I highly recommend you read the full thing yourself, but here are a few excerpts with random bolded phrases:
For many years, scientists had believed that the brain, which is…
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“You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to...”
– Aaron Freeman “You Want A Physicist To Speak at your Funeral”
(source: npr)
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from: sagan|sense to: someone. anyone. you.
My parents both have worked for as long as I’ve known them. And during that same time span, not one of them reads anything else but the Bible or Christian literature. I am open & loving toward all religions & spiritual enlightenment. I am open & loving toward every race, gender & sexual preference.
I understand the world & the reality around me because I choose to...
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A New Dark Age →
Most scientists, on achieving high office, keep their public remarks to the bland and reassuring. Last week Nina Fedoroff, the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), broke ranks in a spectacular manner.
She confessed that she was now “scared to death” by the anti-science movement that was spreading, uncontrolled, across the US and the rest of the western...
