Refreshingly different!
Unusual Hobbies: A Reading List
Things Are Super Awkward in Latest House of Cards Teaser
I am seriously addicted to this series!
The Daily Show Staff Talks About the Future of the Show After Jon Stewart
Can't imagine anyone topping or 'filling his shoes', he's in the stratosphere of political satire.
Free Speech Debate ‘Still Alive’ After Attack in Denmark
Free speech a cornerstone of democracy
Benedict Cumberbatch Marries Sophie Hunter
221B Baker Street needs to expand.
Voyager’s Valentine Turns 25 Today
The final frontier… very, very cool!
If you’re in love with space exploration then you’ll fall for this: it’s the picture of Earth taken from the Voyager 1 spacecraft after it passed the orbit of Pluto in 1990. That image of our planet from almost 4 billion miles away inspired Carl Sagan to write his famous “Pale Blue Dot” passage, and reminds us that we are all just floating on “a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”
This is from a post I originally published in 2010. I’ll keep trotting it out until it’s not cool anymore. (Which I don’t think will ever happen.)
Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune as seen by Voyager 1 in 1990 (Credit: NASA)
On February 14, 1990, after nearly 13 years of traveling the solar system, the Voyager 1 spacecraft passed the orbit of Pluto and turned its camera around to take a series of photos of the…
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Winter’s Wonder
I know, I know, you're thinking "I hate winter, it's too cold". Me, I love winter, it's beautiful, harsh, cold, still, bright, and full of promise. Winter levels us, it forces all in its wake to raise our game, our tolerance for cold. I like the sound that my footsteps make as they 'crunch' the …
#DarwinDay
No one inspired me more during my university career then Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution by means of natural selection. Although I was in the 'sociological' stream, I found the Darwinian paradigm (still do) more explanatory to the world around me, both social and natural, then most of the theorists upheld as the …
Blogging Birdie!
I've got my talons clicking the keys, very excited to be entering the world of blogging - look out world, here I am!!!
The Northern Herper 