The universe is an amazing thing. While you are “sitting still” reading this post, you, me, and everyone else are hurdling through space at an unfathomable speed. This is almost as amazing as the fact that we, for the most part, don’t even notice that we’re doing it. The Earth rotates
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Politics and its Discontents: A Safe Bet
Mother Jones predicts that the next episode of Cosmos will inflame the climate-change deniers. I think that is a safe bet: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Separate But Not Equal
That would probably pretty much sum up the religious fundamentalists’ attitude when comparing science to their literal interpretations of The Bible. The people at Funny or Die decided to run with that sentiment: Funny or Die’s ‘Creationist Cosmos’: God created everything — except for gay people (via Raw Story )
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