Archive for August, 2009
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
An 8 stars for my husband. A 7 stars for me. District 9 is a very different movie from the likes that we see these days. The movie focusses on a rather unusual story depicting aliens grounded on Earth in South Africa. The movie strikes different cords such as:
The compassion ...
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
Tonight was my first night with an old Celestron C8* SCT telescope that I recently assembled. The scope is not in very good shape and it took me a little while to adjust to working with it. Thankfully, the motor drive works well so it can track stars. The biggest ...
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
David Christian more or less started the field of Big History and "Maps of Time: An introduction to Big History" is thus the first and best book on the subject available today.
David's theme is the evolution of complex entities that can process increasingly larger energy flows and thus prevent disorder. ...
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Sunday, August 9th, 2009
Meehive.com one of 2009's Top 100 website by PC Mag http://bit.ly/12Rlpu
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Friday, August 7th, 2009
I have recently had an increased interest in the upcoming field of Big History. Big History tries to take the entire history of the universe starting from the Big Bang and present it in a single far reaching story. The different authors take different approaches to connect this story into ...
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