It's about 10 minutes long, but worth watching. I like the vast majority of it, but wish they had added context to Darwin's quote. It's the last few lines of "On the Origins of Species" and is pretty much his plea for the christians that would blindly reject his work to consider the beauty of descent with modification and how it might fit into ( Read more... )

This helped cheer me up a bit...or was that the wine... oh well, enjoy!

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...to cheer me up because I seriously need it.

On yesterday's date in:
1986 - Voyager 2 passes within 81,500 km (50,680 miles) of Uranus.
-from post by monkeyspike in ubergeeks.

Geek Quote of the Day
"[The speed of light ranges] from 299,792,458 metres per second in a vacuum to 0 metres per second in a brick." [Richard Robinson]
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Some interesting news articles I read today while waiting on searches to complete:

A tabby cat name Emily travel from Wisconsin to France...all on her own. That was stowing away in cargo. Now, she's getting a business class plane ride back home. Talk about frequent flyer miles! Full article hereArchaeopteryx (a small dinosaur that had feathers ( Read more... )