Giant Meterorite Strikes Scotland
March 26th, 20081.2 billion years ago. Sorry. Bit late with this news.
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Doomsday Ark On The Moon
March 13th, 2008I sometimes think scientists sit around all day reading pulp SF novels from the fifties while they’re looking for the next big thing to work on.
Plans for a doomsday ark on the moon.
Not saying it isn’t a good idea, but I’m still waiting for ray guns and Lensmen.
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Heaven - Christians Have Got It Completely Wrong Says Bishop
February 9th, 2008Forget about sitting on a cloud - when you’re dead you are going to work! Hard! The Bishop of Durham is an erudite man and has spent a lot of time studying the texts of his religion, and he’s put some interesting thoughts on the topic of the afterlife (from a Christian perspective) to Time magazine.
As an environmentalist and someone who’s been regularly involved in political activism, one of the big gripes for me is when right wing, evangelical Christians use their religious perspective to justify doing nothing about saving the world…and in some cases to stand back in the hope of armageddon in other countries.
The Bishop of Durham not only says they’re wrong, but if they want to be true to their religion they need to be doing the opposite - protecting the globe and not bringing devastation to Middle Eastern countries being somewhere near the top of the list, as Heaven is not going to be up there - it’s down here.
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2008 - Year Zero For Time Travel
February 9th, 2008First someone suggests the poor scientists at CERN could destroy the universe, now they’re getting the blame for potentially attracting balloon-headed, spindly-bodied future men.
(Thanks to Lizzy Hill for flagging this one up).
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Da Vinci’s Secret Code
November 10th, 2007If you’re not all bored at the possibility that a genius like Da Vinci makes his work operate on numerous levels, read this.
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Smart Dust
April 18th, 2007I like this idea. More proof that we are now living in an SF world.
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It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Universe
September 5th, 2006‘Maybe our universe isn’t real. Yale Philosopher Nick Bostrum has claimed that we are probably living in a computer simulation.’
Just one of ten great, insanely brilliant theories about the origins of the universe.
And you lot think I make this stuff up…
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Sandbrook on the Summer of Love
July 30th, 2006There’s a review of Dominic Sandbrook’s White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties in today’s Sunday Times culture section.
It’s part political history - looking at the coming to power of Howard Harold Wilson - part cultural history of the era. The reviewer, Peter Clarke, concludes that it’s a “lively narrative” with the central concept that the ‘cultural revolution’ of the ’60s maybe wasn’t so revolutionary after all…
You can read the review in full on the Sunday Times website.
–Ariel–
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Look to the Skies
July 25th, 2006We now know where all the aliens have gone.
TITAN MAY BE RIDDLED WITH CAVES. The highlands of Titan may be riddled with caves, according to the latest images of Saturn’s giant moon. On 30 April, the Cassini spacecraft flew over a large bright region called Xanadu that spans about 4000 kilometres.
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