Agents of change make status quo folks rather squirmy. Folks who were previously absent or invisible either join up or speak up, and next thing you know, colored people want to drink out of lily-white fountains, and red people want their land back and treaties honored, and homosexuals want to get married, and women want …
Category Archive: awesomeness
Feb 12 2013
Los Links: I Laughed, I Cried, They Became a Part of Me
Some of you will remember Los Links from back in the day when I could spend two days out of every week reading blogs, and then share the linky goodness with you. Life’s been too busy for a while for that, unfortunately. It should have been too busy tonight, but my brain said, “You know …
Aug 21 2012
A+, Plus Drool-Worthy Geology, AW #49 Info, and Other Bits
Blowing the dust off ye olde computer to say “Allo, allo, I’m still alive!” Taking a break, still, although I’m dipping my toes back in to a desultory bit o’ work. Like, this post. First off, I just want to throw my support to Jen McCreight’s brilliant Atheism + idea. When my brain is back …
Apr 25 2012
This Isn’t A Review of Victor Stenger’s New Book
I’d actually like to do that book justice. I’ve read it. I’m still digesting it. I can tell you my foremost thought whilst reading it: “Damnit, Victor, I’m a geologist, not a physicist!” It’s been a long time since I’ve read up on physics. The middle chapters, in which he drills down pretty deeply into …
Oct 30 2011
I’m Sending You to the Salt Mines
This. Is. Amazing. If somebody wanted to send me to work in this salt mine, that would be totally fine. I’d be all over that. It’s one of the most incredible places I’ve ever seen. Who would have ever thought that a bunch of salt miners would have spent extra time down in the mines …
Sep 10 2011
This Student Gives Me Hope
I don’t know who she is, only what she has done. And what she has done is this: become a banned book library. When her school decided upon a list of things the kids absolutely must not read, due to parental outrage and a belief kids can be kept from great literature and harsh truths, …
Mar 28 2011
I’ll Take Wonder and Awe Over Mystery, Thanks
Seems it’s time to talk about science and beauty again. You see, several people tweeted this XKCD: And then, on the same day, Eric MacDonald has this post up: This morning, in the The Independent, Michael McCarthy has an article entitled “Mere Science cannot account for beauty.” And while it may be true that mere …
Dec 21 2010
Totality!
Long-time readers may recall that in my deep past, I wanted to be an astronomer. I’ve still got an abiding fondness for such things, but I don’t get to feed my inner amateur astronomer much up here. So when Twitter started buzzing with word of a total lunar eclipse for the night of December 20-21, …
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