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Here's a smattering of my particular brand of nonsense, laid out in a neat and tidy sampler. Try a taste of this, perhaps a smidgen of that; by reading these choice few articles, or listening to these podcasts, you'll get a sense for what this blog is all about.
Only then can you make the educated decision to never come back again.
Vision - A Plea to Save the James Webb Space Telescope
Sat, Oct 8, 2011
My submission to the Save the James Webb Space Telescope initiative's video competition. And what do you know? It won! Check it out (just over a minute long!) and spread the word. It's for a very good cause.
Wed, Jan 26, 2011
My most popular post. This is a minute-long animation based on a thought experiment I devised when looking at a lunar eclipse. When observing the curvature of the earth's shadow on the moon I noticed how large it was. It made me wonder what the earth would look like if a copy of it orbited us at the same distance as the moon.
Then I stopped wondering and got animating.
Thu, Oct 14, 2010
This is a 13 minute documentary I wrote and edited based on a previous podcast, concerning the relationship between two very different manifestations of the human intellect; those being art and science.
While it was meant as my personal assessment of the importance these things have in my life, by subjectively weighing music slightly over science I worry that I may have inadvertently dipped one toe into the world of new-age pseudo-babble. This of course was not my intention, and this is why I consider 'Love Songs' to be my most misunderstood post as well. I think I may need to write a companion article soon to get at some of the finer points of contention, and make more precisely clear just what I meant to say.
Rejecting Religion Openly, and Being Polite About it
Tue, Jan 31, 2012
Atheists are perhaps the most universally loathed minority in modern history. We can't get elected, respected, or even heard. Can this change? And if so, how?
Whatever Happened to Conversation?
Sun, Feb 13, 2011
Perhaps my most personal post, but don't let that scare you! Help me figure out whether a television character is responsible for the shallow discourse to be overheard at pubs nowadays, or if perhaps there's something deeper going on. Has mankind lost their talent for conversation? And if there's nobody decent to talk to, what's the point of living at all? (Trust me, it's not as melancholy as it sounds)
Psychic Alien Ghosts from the Planet Heaven
Sun, May 16, 2010
Tues, Jan 18, 2011
Fri, Aug 13, 2010
Reflections on the state of our environment after watching a meteor shower. Man's ability to make things got us into this mess, but can it also get us out? Is it time to stop pretending that there aren't real choices we can make; choices that could strengthen the prospect of our survival on this world? If we're smart enough, can we identify what changes need to be made, and design the very way we behave as a species?
As stated in the piece, sacred cows must not be tolerated in the face of losing the field upon which they graze.
Sun, Aug 29, 2010
In the meantime, read me wax poetic about the process of witnessing one's own bones become creaky... and I do mean all of them.
Sun, Aug 15, 2010
