It doesn’t surprise me to see that Conservapedia has an article dedicated to ‘counterexamples’ to the theory of relativity. Number 9 is my favorite..
If P, so why not Q?
Learning about Sidney Morgenbesser made my day.
quote of the day
“I absolutely love infinity.”
– Danica McKellar, author of Kiss my Math, as heard today on NPR.
superiority debunked
If you’re at all interested in the recent ruling by California federal district court Judge Vaughn Walker striking down Proposition 8 as unconstitutional, I recommend the full text of his opinion.
“Moral disapproval alone is an improper basis on which to deny rights to gay men and lesbians.”
Maybe this guy should get a clue:
hang in there, Chris
Christopher Hitchens writes beautifully about the fact that he has cancer.
touche
A wonderful excerpt from the forthcoming autobiography of Mark Twain, which he expressly commanded not to be published until he’d been dead 100 years.
old school
Great colorized photos of America taken from 1939 to 1943.
brain buckets
The motorcycle helmets are great. Warning: some of the pictures are not safe for work.
the grass is sometimes greener, actually
Fascinating map showing general population-shifting trends across the U.S.
