The Zingularity
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Just a few minutes ago, at 12:04 AM my time, the sun did an ominous thing: it stopped getting higher in the sky of the northern hemisphere! Oh noes, we northerners better start the rituals to coax it back one day right away. That’s the start of summer and the end of the longest day. Or for our friends down under, winter has begun and your sun will start moving higher in the sky. Which means your rituals are working. For anyone who is out dancing wildly and casting spells at either end of the earth, don’t forget to enjoy the super moonlight this weekend.
New analysis of Martian rocks has one researcher saying long ago, Mars had significant quantities of free oxygen in the atmosphere. [Read more…]
Had Republicans drafted and brought a clean farm bill to a vote in the House today it probably would have passed with flying colors. Agricultural subsidies are a form of wealth redistribution even most conservatives agree with. But they couldn’t resist a chance to punch the unemployed and working poor in the stomach along the way and the bill failed: [Read more…]
A prominent conservative Christian group that touted faith-based therapy to convert gay and lesbian believers into straight counterparts has thrown in the towel. It even sounds like some in the organization had a come to Jesus moment of the reality kind: [Read more…]
The billion-pixel Mars is a click away at the NASA homepage, the zoom feature makes it safe to load and view
The picture above taken by Mars Curiosity is detailed, but if you click it and go to the NASA homepage you’ll find a zoomable version that lets you zero in on tiny features in crisp detail like never before.
Dr. Patrick Johnston is quite a study in contradictions. He’s one of those small government, flag-waving patriots who wants to secede from the US and force women to bear a rapists child with the power of the New Christian State. He’s also a gun maniac, hate radio jock, anti LGBT, and an anti-science homeschooler. He’d feel real at home in the Republic of Gilead: [Read more…]