Say what? Only 6 out of 1,000 at U.S. embassy in Bagdad fluently speaks Arabic
Here's the story. But, of course, it is more important to get rid of gay military translators than to communicate with residents of Iraq.
Exploring the universe from big to small: Powers of Ten
To continue with a posting trend we started a couple days ago, I wanted to recommend a terrific book called Powers of Ten: About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe, by Philip Morrison and Phylis Morrison, originally published in 1982 by scientific American Library. [It appears that new…
OT God versus NT God
How do people who believe the Bible to be inerrant reconcile the Old Testmament version of God with the New Testament's version? They don't often try. Rather, they cherry pick. They tell the Noah story by focusing on God's "saving" of Noah's family, rather than firmly acknowledging God's decision to commit cold senseless genocide…
The size of the Earth
Ok, here's another site that shows what tiny (yet interesting) specks of almost-nothing we humans are. But it does such a good job of it! Check it out.
Snowflake architecture
My city (St. Louis) is still covered with traffic-clogging snow needing to be hefted from sidewalks. I was glad that I happened onto these photos to remind me what is really going on out there. As in the previous post about the Hubble photos, the human eye gets such a…