Monthly Archives: August 2007

Links (Not The Sausage Kind)

Religious extremists like to link Darwin to Communism and the Soviet Union. Ed Darrell dismantles those arguments here. Were gay civil unions sanctioned in medieval Europe? There’s some evidence that they were, and nobody thought twice about it. Read the story … Continue reading

Science, Social, Religion, Television

The Friday Thingy

Countries I’ve visited.  I need to do better here: create your own visited countries map or vertaling Duits Nederlands

Travel

California Buffet

California Buffet in Sunnyvale isn’t a place I’d normally go for lunch.  It’s a bit farther away from the office than I’d like, and it’s an Asian buffet.  I don’t think I’ve ever been to a decent Asian buffet.  At … Continue reading

Food & Wine

Water, Water, Everywhere

This is pretty cool: NEWS RELEASE: 2007-094 Aug. 29, 2007 Water Vapor Seen ‘Raining Down’ On Young Star System NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has detected enough water vapor to fill the oceans on Earth five times inside the collapsing nest … Continue reading

Space

Research

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Science