Archive for 2007
More powerful than God or religion
I think stories are incredibly important, especially the ones we tell about our lives and our collective past. They make absolutely horrible experiences bearable and often meaningful. Pain without a purpose is terrifying. The Royal de Luxe tells stories to cities with giants. It is storytelling on a very grand scale. Each time Royal de […]
How to get a diamond tiara
But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes I mean I think a diamond tiara is delightful because it is a place where I really never thought of wearing diamonds before, and I thought i had almost one of everything until I saw a diamond tiara. The English lady who is called Mrs. Weeks said it was in her […]
Railway creeper
This is a picture Whitney sent me a few months ago. Thanks to Slice of the day, I can now identify this plant as Ipomoea cairica. The Railway Creeper or Cairo morning glory (Ipomoea cairica) is a vine native to tropical Africa and Asia. This morning glory vine is beautiful, climbing on to whatever it […]
botanical poetry
I’ve been pretty busy lately, so I thought you’d enjoy some botanical poetry: Finding the Way in Phenotypic Space: The Origin and Maintenance of Constraints on Organismal Form is the title of a recent paper. Beautiful sounding, no? Maybe when I’m not busy I’ll post about what the paper says, rather than how it says […]
energy solutions from space!
If we want to maintain the standard of living developed countries are used to and if developing countries are able to adopt this standard, we’re going to need more energy than we can capture and use using available technologies. Here’s a pretty cool way to get around the problem: Solar power from both the Moon […]
Putting Big Brother out of business
The FBI thinks that Hasan Elahi is a terrorist and he doesn’t trust them to get things right. So, he records pretty much everything about his life and puts it on his website. The globe-hopping prof says his overexposed life began in 2002, when he stepped off a flight from the Netherlands and was detained […]
“Drawings without paper”
Gego via 3QD