Mind-Altering Quantum Experiment Shows Time Has Never Existed As We Think It Does – “You totally can’t trust anything about the universe, except the results of my experiment. Trust me! Science.”
Study warns that science as we know it is evolving into something shoddy and unreliable – Bring back natural philosophy and engineering-as-research!
Queryfeed – For us non-Twitter users who want to follow an account on there but deal with all the hashtags and shortened URLs sell your soul don’t want to actually sign up.
Youtube Heroes – Crass video, but enlightening. I can’t think of a worse idea than YouTube giving normal users the power to mommy everyone when they see something they don’t like.
Listen to the Surprisingly Goofy Voice of a Neanderthal
Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution – “In sum: If we don’t know what conditions existed, or what conditions would be necessary, and can’t reproduce the event in the laboratory, and can’t show it to be statistically probable, and can’t construct something that might have evolved—why are we so very sure that it happened? Would you hang a man on such evidence?”
Read a sample résumé for Marissa Mayer – “please no one do this” – a friend’s comment on LinkedIn. Please note he’s a graphic designer.
The App Store Renders Government Irrelevant – As if more rendering were needed.
The Student-Loan Scam Killed ITT Tech – “Neither students nor their parents could possibly pay out-of-pocket for college at these prices, nor would private lenders see these loans, which have no collateral, as feasible. In the absence of government created credit, colleges would be forced to charge prices that are in line with reality.”
Bike Night Cycling Heart Shaped Tail Light – Uh…
Pittsburgh Renaissance Festival program – Warning! This is a pdf. Another warning! This references the Medieval Period as the “Dark Ages.” Final warning! It’s not really a Renaissance festival.
Is this the most convincing video of the loch ness Monster ever – No. It’s not.
How Long to Write Famous Books – Geez, take your time, Salinger.
Majority of Americans Are Still Reading Print Books – Time to finally get that “Print 4 Lyfe” tattoo.
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Nice batch. Well, perception is reality, so the first one offers no puzzle to me. I’m not a materialist. And I suppose Neanderthals all knew they were doomed when they encountered humans who could sing. Gosh, those bike ornaments look like something I see hanging under pick-up bumpers all the time. My son would gripe about the Renfest, too; it’s a Medieval Festival — we have both here in Oklahoma, properly matching the time period. When I write fiction, it comes fast and furious. I have trouble sleeping until the story tells me it’s done.
So, when are you going to talk to aliens with me? 🙂
I couldn’t get that link to respond from here. Still, I’m inclined to think we humans are the only ones fallen, so it might be tough for those who lack a heart-mind awareness. Those of us heart-led will speak to them like we do anything else in God’s Creation. Bring `em on.
Here’s the URL. It’s an academic type of blog…I can’t imagine it would be blocked by anything (although there are some NSFW material on there).
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=28159
Read it and some of the comments; I think they are all barking up the wrong tree. However, I appreciate the description of the heptapod view on time.
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