betelgeuse's bow shock

at ESA


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monty python channel on youtube

simplicity

at daylight atheism:

'i had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.'

—thomas jefferson, letter to alexander donald, 7 february 1788

if you need an analysis, it's just a click away.

jeff han and the conspiracy thriller

on the daily show:



related posts:
my next peripheral
mouse: an endangered species

parched yellow

trump

from the new humanist:


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via RD

dan dennett on darwin's legacy

dan dennett talk at stanford 2008

in 7 parts:

merry-go-round

a major supermarket in the marousi area has sprawled into an enclosed mall plus a play area for kids outside. the carousel was great fodder for my camera.





click on either pic for larger version on its flickr page or hit merry-go-round for the rest of the batch.

mojoey's atheist blogroll group on flickr

mojoey, who, not incidentally, compiles the very valuable atheist blogroll (on my left sidebar) has started an atheist blogroll group on flickr which gathers pictures 'related to any and all religions, atheism, secularism, skepticism and politics.'

he's now started publishing a weekly 'best of' post for the pictures... check out the first two installments here:
week 1
week 2

my linking to his posts has nothing to do with the fact that i made it on his list... twice...

seethrough

little orthodox church in marousi, athens

a friend saw these pictures and quipped 'nice pictures. you entered a church -- i'm surprised.'

i answered, 'i visit the acropolis too. that doesn't mean that i believe in either zeus or christ.'







besides, i'm an architect.

click on any image to see it larger at its flickr page. the entire set is here.

a profile of richard dawkins

this seems to be part of a longer video but i can't seem to find the rest. if anyone knows more about this, please let me know so i can add them here.

early morning oaka

i woke up early and the sky was beautiful, so i grabbed the opportunity to wander around oaka and get a few shots of calatrava's esplanade before heading to the office. click either to enlarge at its source.





more shots from the area at my oaka tag.

hubble snaps first picture of the enterprise

the first ever visible light picture of the enterprise, from outside our solar system!


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a bit of enteprise pareidolia, from aterrapouca!

ursus wehrli: tidying up art

the next person who nags me about my mess gets spammed this.

hubble snaps an extrasolar planet

at JPL:

the first ever visible light picture of a planet outside our solar system!



its name is fomalhaut b -- an exoplanet -- you know, the kind carl sagan's fellows will be studying!

and, as an added spectacular bonus, here's a picture of a solar system at HR 8799:



and to think that not so long ago we just suspected they were out there. now we can actually see them... with eyes... and with the help of a few gadgets like hubble.

if you want to read more, go to JPL. plus, a very enthusiastic phil plait giddily describes this historic achievement.

click any pic to its source.

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a hotel on kifissias avenue, in athens.