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There’s a little graphic and such, but here’s the central, weird finding of a Pew study reported in The Climate Change Attitude Mystery | Wired Science from Wired.com
The confounding part: among college-educated poll respondents, 19 percent of Republicans believe that human activities are causing global warming, compared to 75 percent of Democrats. But take that [...]

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The whole blog looks interesting, but this is the first post that caught my attention on Cabinet of Wonders: The Wonder of the Golden Proportions
Ever hear of the Golden Mean? Neither had I, until I was supposed to teach a graphic design course, and started (you know me) to do research on what, exactly, I [...]

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At Astronomy Picture of the Day, take a look at “A Spectacular Sky Over the Grand Tetons,” the image for August 14, 2007.

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Astronomy Picture of the Day rationalizes including this really good optical illusion by relating it to the virtues of non-human observation in science.

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Long Now > Projects > Clock > Prototype 1

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Timbuktu Chronicles, a “view of Africa and Africans with a focus on entrepreneurship, innovation, technology, practical remedies and other self sustaining activities” by Emeka Okafor, takes note of Community Seed Banks with links to fuller reports..

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Quicktime animation of glogal warming via Will Shetterly.

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Great article in Time about “The Mystery of Consciousness “:
Some mavericks, like the mathematician Roger Penrose, suggest the answer might someday be found in quantum mechanics. But to my ear, this amounts to the feeling that quantum mechanics sure is weird, and consciousness sure is weird, so maybe quantum mechanics can explain consciousness.
Via Arts & [...]

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In honor of tonight’s Wolf Moon, Astronomy Picture of the Day has posted a montage of twenty full moons. Be sure to click through to the twenty frame movie.

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A truly amazing photo on Astronomy Picture of the Day for September 21. (You can see previous days’ photos if you follow the link after today.)

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