Letters of Note: Why Explore Space?

Letters of Note: Why Explore Space?:

Although our space program seems to lead us away from our Earth and out toward the moon, the sun, the planets, and the stars, I believe that none of these celestial objects will find as much attention and study by space scientists as our Earth. It will become a better Earth, not only because of all the new technological and scientific knowledge which we will apply to the betterment of life, but also because we are developing a far deeper appreciation of our Earth, of life, and of man.

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Science on the Rampage

Science on the Rampage by Freeman Dyson | The New York Review of Books: "The fringe of physics is not a sharp boundary with truth on one side and fantasy on the other. All of science is uncertain and subject to revision. The glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove. The fringe is the unexplored territory where truth and fantasy are not yet disentangled."

Buttons Are Everywhere

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Losing It in the Golden Groves

The Chronicle Review: "Everything distracts me. Being interested in something has become unmoored from my ability to attend to it. Ambient noise, intrusive trivial thoughts, e-mail, stock prices, Green Bay Packer blogs (Green Bay was my hometown), variously and predictably plague me. Ambient quiet is distracting too, and sent me to the Internet to buy a white-noise machine. I interrupted the writing of this paragraph to play a game of Solitaire, and then when I lost, I allowed myself to play until I won, and then one more in case I won two in a row, and then I kept on until I won two in a row."

Injustice of the Planet of the Apes

Does Inequality Make Us Unhappy? | Wired Science | Wired.com: "After witnessing this injustice, the monkeys earning cucumbers went on strike. Some started throwing their cucumbers at the scientists; the vast majority just stopped collecting pebbles. The capuchin economy ground to a halt."

Put On Your Beret, Light A Gauloise, And Here We Go...

Playing D&D with Pornstars: "So I was walking around Montreal today, where everything is French, and I realized that the frequent inability of the garage rockers of DIY D&D and the prog rockers of story-games and other forms of aggressive new-schoolery to understand what each other are on about isn't just a philosophy of gaming thing. It's a philosophy thing. A French philosophy thing, to be specific."

I’m Not Entirely Sure He Knows What That Is

Penny Arcade:

Denial of Death

ESPN.com - E-ticket: "SWIFT CURRENT, Saskatchewan — Dec. 30, 2006. Fans with gray in their hair remember the day the Swift Current Broncos mounted the display on the back wall of the hockey arena's lobby — sweaters behind glass and framed along with these photos of four players who last skated in this arena precisely 20 years and one day ago."

Are You My Mother?

The Call of Cthulhu Cover by ~DrFaustusAU: