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Oil Billionaire: Wind Turbines Are Ugly 26 Aug 2013 | 07:20 pm
Oil refineries are gorgeous. Yes, because oil refineries and oil spills are the epitome of aesthetic perfection. I mean, who doesn't feel inspired watching machines that rape the environment and fill...
Chelsea Manning's Letter to the President 24 Aug 2013 | 08:11 pm
Every day that goes by, when new developments on the Bradley Manning story unfold, and especially in light of the difficult obstacles and pressures she has had to face throughout her life and career, ...
The Word - Fracking Gag Gift 21 Aug 2013 | 05:39 pm
I hope I don't have to explain the environmental, safety, health, economic and ethical problems and negative trade-offs associated with hydraulic fracturing (also known as fracking). It's bad enough t...
Vivaldi, meet Heavy Metal; Heavy Metal, meet Vivaldi 14 Aug 2013 | 06:24 pm
If you're anything like me and enjoy genres like hard rock and classical music, but have no musical talent of your own, I bet you've wondered what a heavy metal rendition of certain classical pieces w...
The Terrors of Sleep Paralysis 2 Aug 2013 | 08:08 pm
Imagine living in medieval times, when weird and unexplained phenomena, especially those related to strange subjective experiences (such as feeling that you're being suffocated by demons in your sleep...
Shooting an AK-47 Underwater 31 Jul 2013 | 07:36 pm
Here in the US, we seem to be obsessed with guns, with our right to own them, and with the ridiculous fear that the government is going to try to take them away from us. Predictably, the people who ar...
John Searle - Our Shared Condition: Consciousness 29 Jul 2013 | 07:45 pm
Studying consciousness is notoriously difficult, and until only the last couple of decades, very few intellectuals (apart from philosophers and psychologists) dared to even think about how to try to u...
Brian Cox - Wonders of Life - Expanding Universe 25 Jul 2013 | 01:05 am
Our knowledge of the world comes from our experience of the world. And our experience is based on our sensory apparatus, but how do our senses work? What is it about the physical laws of the universe ...
Flatland - Exploring Other Dimensions 22 Jul 2013 | 07:21 pm
Plato's myth of the cave is an allegory that tries to make the point that there may be more to reality than meets the eye, that our experience is simply of a very limited and lowly aspect of reality. ...
Open Access Explained, PhD Comics Style 18 Jul 2013 | 06:12 pm
As biological creatures, we are very adaptable. If we notice that some background condition remains relatively stable, we tend to ignore it after a while. On the one hand, this makes perfect sense, si...
