The Hubble zooms in on a globular cluster called Messier 9. Click image to enrapture.
The Hubble zooms in on a globular cluster called Messier 9. Click image to enrapture.
I was turned on to this by my morning DJs, Jason and Deb, can’t believe I missed it yesterday when it came out.
Update: Romney 54% Santorum 28% with only 16% in, this race has been called, but it hardly matters. The delegate math in Illinois is about as confusing as it gets. But what it boils down to is your vote for Romney or Santorum doesn’t count toward the primary, your vote for their designated delegates in your district is what matters. And you can vote for more than one candidate’s delegates. It’s pretty crazy. [Read more…]
Read an old astronomy text and you might see mention of a Goldilocks zone, the distance between the earth and sun, where the blessed earth is not too hot and not too cold. More recent work has shown this is a modern day fairy tale, the early earth was actually too far away. By rights the oceans should have been solid ice, the earth a lifeless, barren snowball. But it wasn’t. A new study confirms one big reason why the earth stayed so unseasonably warm early on: [Read more…]
Well, I’m not an angry atheist, in fact I’m positively cheerful, especially given my future fate as hot coal in hell –{rimshot!}. But fellow FTBer Greta Christina has a book out by the same name, and thanks to the good godless folks at Dirty Heathen Publishing , you can have it on your Kindle in two shakes right here:
This accessible, personal, down-to-earth book speaks not only to atheists, but to believers who want to understand the so-called “new atheism.” “Why Are You Atheists So Angry?” drops a bombshell on the destructive force of religious faith — and gives a voice to millions of angry atheists.
Citizens United was the landmark legal case that opened up unlimited contributions, with no requirement to disclose donors for large entities, to pools of money known colloquially as Super Pacs. A new article brings up an interesting possibility: could wealthy individuals and corporations score a lucrative two-fer? [Read more…]
Result on a recent poll asking conservative Illinois voters about the President’s citizenship and evolutionary biology tail with the same questions a week ago about Mississippi and Alabama voters. Although the results are slightly less depressing in Illinois: [Read more…]
Tweets were flying last night that Internet and cell phone communications had been severed in Damascus amid reports of intense fire-fights between pro-government forces and Syrian rebels over the weekend. The scattered reports and rumors are fueling speculation that the end of the brutal Assad regime may be nigh: [Read more…]
The Atlantic reposts a graph from The Economist showing the increase in government spending in the first three years of the first term of the last seven presidents. Guess who wins Biggest Spender in Chief? [Read more…]
We’re just workin out the details of an interactive map of Illinois by district rolling out on Daily Kos this week. If you have a sec take a peek below — be sure and read the text below the image before you play with it.