Happy reversed Pi day folks…
- Skylab was launched 40 years ago today. So why aren’t we living in space yet?
- Three X-class solar flares erupt from our Sun within 24 hours. Somebody sacrifice something quickly dammit.
- Pulsar planets: strange worlds orbiting undead stars.
- 2012 Canadian UFO Survey released: twice as many UFOs reported in 2012 as 2011.
- Vanity Fair on the ‘alien abduction’ phenomenon, and the life and death of Dr. John Mack.
- Inner and outer space meet: Carl Sagan’s letters to Timothy Leary.
- How many prime numbers come in pairs? See: angels dancing on the head of a pin.
- The Vatican doesn’t like the cult of Santa Muerte. You can add that one to a very long list of things the Vatican doesn’t like.
- Mayan pyramid bulldozed by construction crew. Now I understand the X-class solar flare problem.
- Noted religious scholar Geza Vermes passes away. More here.
- The Hanging Gardens of Babylon…now sans Babylon!
- Ogham Stones digitised digitised for 3D project. Visit the website.
- One of the first cities in the world, Uruk, too, has been resurrected in 3D.
- Our Australopith ancestors wouldn’t have been able to hear our words.
- While Neanderthals would have shook hands with us with their right hands. Or smashed our puny sapien skulls with them.
- U.N. urges people to start eating insects to fight world hunger.
- In Dan Brown’s Inferno, numeric riddles and controversial science mix. Warning: contains me.
- The WaPo verdict on Dan Brown’s new book Inferno. Have just finished it myself, and will discuss it here on TDG tomorrow (muuust sleeeeeep now).
Quote of the Day:
The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that what we can say clearly amounts to next to nothing? If we omitted all that is unclear, we would probably be left completely uninteresting and trivial tautologies.
Werner Heisenberg
