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A marble: floating in the middle of nothing
The Long Slow Goodbye Our world is dying. We are killing it. We pride ourselves on our adaptability, Yet we are locked in an anachronistic worldview: One that deludes us into believing That what once was will ever be. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, art, Core thought, Education, Environment, Poetry, Science
Tagged arrogance, Carl Sagan, Earth, ignorance, solar system
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Duplicity in the Duplex?
Bhavik Naik over at Bhavik’s Blurs introduced me to ‘Google Duplex‘ the other day, in a post entitled ‘Is Google taking it too far?‘ Here’s a four minute video demonstration of Google Duplex in action: Pretty impressive, no? As well … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Business, Communication, Computers and Internet, Core thought, Ludditis, News and politics, People, Phlyarology, Science
Tagged Duplex, ethics, Google, Sundar Pichai
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Recognizing the Mother of Global Warming
Originally posted on Climate Denial Crock of the Week:
University of California at Santa Barbara: By all rights, Eunice Newton Foote should be a household name. More than a century and a half ago, Foote was part of one of…
Posted in balance, Climate, Communication, Education, Environment, GCD: Global climate disruption, History, Reblogs, Science
Tagged Eunice Newton Foote
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Why do we have time zones: time for change?
A few years ago I wrote a blog post on the topic of the total muddle that’s caused by the lack of a commonly accepted standard date format. Today, I’m going to waffle on about something similar. Before standard time … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, balance, Communication, Core thought, History, Ludditis, Phlyarology, Science, Strategy
Tagged John Harrison, Longitude, time, timezones, UTC, Zulu
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World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice
Following on from that, I present this, from here, courtesy of Sir Charles: please read. Twenty-five years ago, the Union of Concerned Scientists and more than 1700 independent scientists, including the majority of living Nobel laureates in the sciences, penned … Continue reading
Posted in balance, Biodiversity, Core thought, Education, Environment, GCD: Global climate disruption, Science, Strategy
Tagged homo fatuus brutus
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From 1985: Warnings from Carl Sagan and Al Gore
Originally posted on Climate Denial Crock of the Week:
Climate deniers will have a hard time explaining these to their grandchildren, the kids who are now woke to the disasters they’ve been served by blindness and greed. Astounding find by…
Posted in balance, Biodiversity, Climate, Core thought, Environment, GCD: Global climate disruption, Science
Tagged Al Gore, Carl Sagan
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The dark side of the moon
This short wibblette is especially for Sue of Dreamwalker’s Sanctuary, who wondered recently “What is on the dark side of the Moon?”. “There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact, it’s all dark.” — Pink Floyd, … Continue reading
When life began there were no Baily’s beads
This is the last (currently) of some articles I intended as a connected series. If you have the time, you may appreciate visiting the others first (assuming you haven’t already): We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Education, History, Phlyarology, Science
Tagged bailey's beads, circle of fire, Earth, eclipse, homo sapiens, life, moon
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Arctic Melting as Europe Freezes. Where Where Have I seen this Before? Oh, Yeah Science.
Originally posted on Climate Denial Crock of the Week:
https://twitter.com/rahmstorf/status/968036167194169345 And, oh yeah, I’ve been bringing you those voices for years now, at this blog, thru these videos. You’re welcome. Hey, don’t get mad at me. Andrew Freedman in Mashable:…
The Antikythera mechanism
The device now known as the ‘Antikythera mechanism‘ — because of where it was discovered in the early 1900s — is a complex clockwork mechanism that is believed to have been constructed in the late second century BC. One of … Continue reading
