Nude Model Goes Un-Airbrushed
Source: The Huffington Post
In the interview, Hawkins says, "I'm not a stick figure--I thought it would be great to tell women to just be themselves and be confident."
Image Gallery: Beauty of the Universe
Source: The New York Times
Here are stars packed like golden sand, gas combed in delicate blue threads, piled into burgundy thunderheads and carved into sinuous rilles and ribbons, and galaxies clotted with star clusters dancing like spiders on the ceiling. More Articles
Reaching for the stars
Source: Guardian Unlimited
The Hubble telescope has expanded our vision of the universe. Soon its replacement will unleash a torrent of new discoveries Next year marks the 20th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope.
How and why the dark matter announcement has been overhyped
Source: fqxi.org
Yesterday, there was a widely hyped (though not, at least publicly, by the experimental team itself) announcement of the results of one of the premier dark matter direct detection experiments, the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search.
Where does the universe end?
Source: The Globe and Mail
The Universe doesn't end, as counter-intuitive as this seems. Once again, language confuses concepts. We speak of a 'Big Bang' but don't mean a 'bang' like an explosion, which has a centre and a shock wave that moves spherically out into air from the explosion.
[I wrote the following during an art/meditation weekend in mid-November.]
Alien Technology 2 - Reverse-Engineering The Roswell Craft
Source: YouTube
I'm not sure of what to make of this! If he is a quack he is a very intelligent one. He explains the technology very well (as layman as he can get given the technology being explained). I'd love to see more of these. If anyone has links please let me know. Cheers,
Photo: Crescent Earth
Source: discovermagazine.com
This dazzling picture of our planet, all dark but the cerulean sliver of the South Pole, was a long time coming. More Articles