Yeah, you're not surprised the Hebrew God had a wife, Ashera. She was pretty much edited out. Interesting new finds from Discovery.

It is weird stuff like this makes me so happy? ;-)

Even if the new one has funny ears and big feet.

... This post is in reference to this crazy book I'm reading, about Jesus and the Peacock Angle. It has cool moments. But then it has bald-faced sentence about Lemuria and beings from Venus. It leaves me gasping sometimes, Melek Ta'us references or no!

Listen to a 'trumpet' from 3000 years ago: http://www.sciencenews.org/musicfiles/ChavinPututusExample1.mp3

From Discovery. In addition to the fascinating ancient music itself, there's intriguing discussion of psychoacoustics. Something ritualists and movie theme writers know well. :-)

I hadn't really expected these two fields to intersect. Check out the NYT article if you're interested in either. Happy geeking!

Tasty science in the physics arXiv blog. What if there really is no beginning and no end? No need for hard-to-swallow huge quantities of dark matter?

The theory could generate some great story ideas at the very least. Perhaps combined with another piece I read, about how stars ring like bells, with their expanding and contracting sunspots...

science and fanfic. Life is good. If typically strange.

For an excellent, wonderfully depressing analysis, see this article on Slate.com.

It's *not* sexual orientation or gender which determines if a person's blood is safe to share... it's behavior! Not to mention a little luck. A gay guy in a sexually monogamous relationship with another man is less likely to get AIDS (or any other STI) than a straight guy having random unprotected sex with women. It's time and time again to let ( Read more... )

Timeline on the construction of the international space station

(snagged from David Brin; sorry don't have the link to hand, though his blog is good stuff)

Guy puts a box together with a GPS and a camera, and captures video a la NASA.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/36063922#36063922