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Art, Craft, Science - Powerhouse Museum
Please to observe the Sydney Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef (with patterns), the local iteration of a multi-person-created installation which is to be exhibited at our Powerhouse Museum during the Ultimo Science Festival (last year's site linked here) in August 2009. They have workshop meetings on the last Sunday of the month, so there's still some ( Read more... ) -
PZ Myers: Darwin Year begins now
Pharyngula The Darwin year begins…NOW!: It was on 1 July 1858, 150 years ago today, that the idea of natural selection was first presented to the public in a joint reading of Darwin's and Wallace's papers at the Linnean Society of London
Some Darwin-related Links- The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online; free, includes items not in public domain
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Saturn's ring mystery is solved
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Saturn's ring mystery is solved
news.bbc.co.uk/ 2/ hi/ science/ nature/ 6927965.stm
Scientists have made a significant step forward in understanding the dynamics of Saturn's magnificent and mysterious system of rings ( Read more... ) -
Science seeking Truthiness
I am putting here Charlie Stross' post and its links on the subject, with a link to it and its numerous comments. I can barely coherently frame my thoughts on the subject.February 4, 2007
The definition of contempt
The American Enterprise Institute, a think tank largely funded by Exxon-Mobil is offering to pay climatologists $10,000 for articles ( Read more... ) -
Assembling Links to Carl Sagan Memorial blog-o-thon
I am adding to this list over time, but see 'blog-o-thon' link for Big List- Ten Times Around The Sun Without Carl, his widow's thoughts on the day: anndruyan.typepad.com/ the_observatory/ 2006/ 12/ ten_times_aroun.html
- Memories Of My Dad from Nick Sagan: nicksagan.blogs.com/ nick_sagan_online/ 2006/ 12/ dad.html
- On Carl Sagan (at John Scalzi's ( Read more... )
