. . . over at Galaxy Zoo have some six hundred suggestions from me on various galaxies and whether they show rings, are merging with each other and so forth as part of an international effort to have amateurs be part of the screening process. I haven’t been there much this year but got a…
Month: May 2011
Lying Is An Art
There is a long discussion going on at Linked-In, The economist group about an article on lying in which the demarcation line seems to be drawn by many people that lying is bad, telling the truth good and we always have a choice which to choose. Indeed I now read human beings do not need…
Blueskin The Cat: The Opening
Blueskin wasn’t bothered by thoughts of an after-life. He couldn’t spell reincarnation and hadn’t even heard of India where the people believed in such things. What did bother him for a moment was the awful memory of being strangled to death in a hanging and the loss of his beautiful blue waistcoat with the pearl…
Fireworks
Firework link to You-Tube I have always liked fireworks but this is more of an excuse to share the delight and see if I can now add content to my posts to make them more appealing and interesting. Enjoy.
The Incessant Brain
The twenty first century will be defined by brain research. I know we will find out many other wonderful things about existence but it is to the brain research we will look to finally begin to understand ourselves. To begin to answer the questions as to whether self is a singular aspect of our brains…
The Enemy Is Dead, Long Live The Enemy
At New Year Jewish people ask for god to keep their enemies constrained – they ask for it three times. They do so knowing that love of life is a high principle in Judaism and not just one’s own and one’s family’s life, nor just one’s community but all life, human and animal. No life…
Alleys
Many years ago in London my mother and I went to one of the famous museums for the day and we felt peckish. Mum being an old Londoner walked with me for a few minutes down the main roads and then aid that the best places to eat were always down the side roads. So…
Time And Space
I recall as a teenager talking about the universe with a friend at school and out attempts to understand infinity. I suggested the universe might end and we might be able to travel to its end (this was before theories of bubble universes and warped space) and my friend asked me what was on the…
Edit And Revise
I was talking with friends recently and it was pointed out to me that some people believe it is the speed with which people write their verse, or paint, or whatever art it is they practice, that proves their talent. I actually think is absurd given that even those who create might have thought about…
Congratulations Its Still A Child
Bertrand Russell famously suggested, and he was being serious, that no one should leave school before the age of thirty. It is a strange effect of aging that one can view a twenty year old and remembering how adult one felt at that age, see clearly how immature most twenty year olds actually are. Right…