Thought-provoking photo of Earth from Saturn
This is how Earth looks from Saturn. That's 930 million miles away (ten times the distance from the Earth to the Sun). Kind of puts things in perspective.
What’s it like to get a Nintendo Wii for Christmas?
***PLEASE don't show this video to my children.*** Nick Smith of pwnordie.com had the inspiration to hunt through youtube to visit the living rooms of 50 gleeful/tearful/wild/choked-up children to see each of them ripping open a new Nintendo Wii. "Oh My Gosh!" Watching this video provoked a host of emotions,…
What a difference a day makes
I just returned from visiting my family-in-law on the north shore Long Island. A nearby beach beckoned and I'd like to share two photos of sea gulls taken on consecutive days, both photos taken from the same beach, both looking north into Long Island Sound. Truly, what a difference a…
Koan
A note I jotted to myself sometime in the past. I don’t recall the circumstances, but the question posed feels universal. The spiritualists cringe and argue against any description of self-conscious life as mechanism, that any mere machine is necessarily only an accumulation of parts and processes that can never…
How marriage has changed
You'll often hear from conservatives that marriage "hasn't changed" for centuries or millenia. Not true. Take a look at this Wikipedia summary of some of the many changes occurring only in the United States only over the past 200 years.
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