There's been a lot of noise on the interwebz, especially the pagan sites, about the latest Cameron extravaganza.  Here's my $0.02 on the subject.  Hopefully this will get it off my chest and then I can move on to better things.

I'm probably going to get myself in trouble here; I don't really care what the Vatican thinks about a movie, just as I ( Read more... )

"Whether we're born in San Francisco or Sudan or close to the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy, we are the products of a billion-year lineage of wandering stardust.  We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from."     -- Jill Tarter --

(Her talk is on the ( Read more... )

All day long I've had the Sanskrit phrase "tat tvam asi" stuck in my head, and like a good little geek i wandered out onto the 'nets to see if it meant what I thought it did.  The short answer is yes, the longer answer  is yes...but (like so many things ( Read more... )