***”We may be tiny, but we are truly, wonderfully significant”***
Roy Gould, researcher at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics, gave a presentation on TED TALKS announcing the arrival this spring of the WorldWide Telescope (WWT), sometimes called the Virtual Observatory, a new software capability created by Microsoft that takes the best raw images from […]
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The worldwide telescope coming in march
Published February 29th, 2008 in WorldWide Telescope, Software, Stargazing, Virtual Observatory, Invention, Science, Education, Images, Photographs, Natural phenomena, Astronomy, Space, Time and Space, Ideas, Visual Imagery, Trends and Innovation. 0 CommentsEternal sunset webcam
Published November 18th, 2007 in Photographs, Images, sunrise/sunset, Webcams, Visual Imagery, Celestial event, Earth, Natural phenomena, Time and Space and Uncategorized. 1 CommentOne of the most interesting things I’ve stumbled upon lately is a site called Eternal Sunset. It hosts a variety of webcam links to the areas in the world where sunset is currently occurring. As I write this, it is a gray morning at 11:00 AM in Austin, Texas, but in San Sebastian, […]
The universe is queerer than we suppose
Published August 7th, 2007 in Species adaptation, Ideas, Ted Talks, Quantum Physics, Time and Space, Evolutionary Biology, Richard Dawkins and Uncategorized. 6 CommentsWhat would we do without the internet and email, which only came into existence such a short time ago? But that is not what this post is about — just a pause to acknowledge that without the internet and email, this post would not exist. What this is really about is a 22-minute […]
LIFE a journey through time
Published July 15th, 2007 in Life, Images, Photographs, Time and Space and Uncategorized. 3 CommentsToday a good friend sent me a most wonderful site that I simply have to share with you. It is called LIFE: A Journey Through Time, and it features the work of Frans Lanting, presenting one of the most beautiful and thought provoking slide shows I’ve ever seen, accompanied by wonderful music that aids […]