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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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Brian Greene. A brilliant, understandable attempt to describe current physical theories on the nature of reality. Not easy going, but all the same it’s meant for lay readers, not physicists. Literally thrilling–especially the initial description of relativity. I felt like Greene was giving me a peek into a conceptual framework that felt like I was [...]

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By Jeffrey A. Lockwood. What a fantastic little book of essays from a Unitarian Universalist professor of entomology at the University of Wyoming.
In “Confession of a Deserter” Lockwood addresses the scientific hegemony on defining truth and argues:
I would not advocate a form of epistemological relativism in which any question can be answered with any method [...]

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See the animated gifs towards the bottom of this page: Spaceweather.com: October 2003 Aurora Gallery If this isn’t just too cool, I don’t know what is. I’m hoping we’ll see some Northern Lights here in Boston tonight.

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Last night I went to the Museum of Science with my friends Paul and Alanna, who have a telescope that they set up on the roof. Thousands of people were there in lines for the observatory and for the other telescopes. Early in the evening, all I could see (through the telescope) was an orange [...]

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