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AdamFrank4

  1. Journey into a Schwarzschild black hole. Nice movies. Need to explore site a bit to get the whole picture. jila.colorado.edu/~ajsh/insidebh…
  2. Nevada Ghosts: Images from A-bomb test sites. (via boing boing) life.time.com/history/atomic…
  3. "I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun" - R. Buckminster Fuller
  4. Physicists claim new quantum-teleportation record. physicsworld.com/cws/article/ne…
  5. If God were a super advanced alien, how could you tell? npr.org/blogs/13.7/201…
  6. I just watched a crow chase off a hawk above a parking lot and it reminds me that science is really just the art of noticing.
  7. First update to national science teaching standards including human-driven climate change: open for public comment now. dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/new…
  8. “Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science.” - James Bridie, playwright. @amishare
  9. John Wheeler said physicists need radical conservativism: start with small set of well established ideas, push them to limits @seanmcarroll
  10. “Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while” —Groucho Marx From @amishare
  11. Why quantum mechanics is like being a little bit pregnant. npr.org/blogs/13.7/201…
  12. Living Buildings that repair themselves and get all the need from their surroundings: that should be our focus. newscientist.com/blogs/culturel…
  13. @amitorit the presence of the tree is the first mystery.
  14. @mims the Germans version of it was better to my mind . It took the natural world seriously alongside of culture.
  15. @kareemoff that is indeed a great piece by Joe Pelka
  16. @mims A job for Heidegger.