Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by Sky in Motion, a time-lapse video of “spectacular juxtapositions between Earth and sky” over photogenic landmarks in Greece.
Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
Wednesday Whimsy: Happy Solstice Day!
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by the December solstice, which happened about 45 minutes ago as I compose this post (2010-12-21 23:38 Universal Time). Io Saturnalia to you all!
SF gets a new world-building scenario
A microbe has been discovered in a remote Californian lake that can survive without phosphorus, capable of substituting arsenic into that slot in its biochemistry instead.
Wednesday Whimsy
This week’s whimsy thread is brought to you by the annual Perseid meteor show. Sure, a regular astronomical event is actually cold hard astrophysics rather than an exercise in intellectual dalliance, but it’s sure purty.
Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
Clarke and Rudd discuss important things
Well, it seems that having Aussie diplomats call her a left-wing control freak hasn’t stopped Helen Clark and Kevin Rudd from progressing on the important things. And what might they be? Planning to support, and possibly join, Australia’s bid for [...]
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