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Art and Astrophysics
The University College London’s Astrophysics department is the first, as far as anyone can tell, to have an artist in residence. Here’s a short video talking about the collaboration. There’s a great quote around 2:00, “she’s looking at, essentially, the same universe from a different point of view.” (via Punctuated Equilibrium)
Daily schedule
Quick post. Benjamin Franklin’s daily schedule reminding you to put some time aside everyday in order to, “put things in the their places.” (via: Information is Beautiful)
Death and science
Catchy title? It’s from a recently published paper in PLoS ONE (a free science journal!!): “Death and Science: The Existential Underpinnings of Belief in Intelligent Design and Discomfort with Evolution.” What? It’s an interesting study done in New York and British Columbia on how people enjoyed readings from either Michael Behe (a prominent intelligent design [...]
CBC’s Vote Compass and David Brooks on why socially savvy politicians often support anti-social policy
This is going to be an insanely busy week. I’ll try to post a couple things of interest nonetheless. Given that Canada is in election mode here are a couple things worth checking out. The first is the Vote Compass on CBC’s website which has tallied the values of each of Canada’s major parties and [...]
Schram: The Samurai of Lovely
I love this poem. Slap-choppers!
