Nothing But Bonfires | You say tomato, I say you're saying it wrong The Nobel Prize-Winning Discovery that Got a Scientist Kicked Out of His Own Lab A dogmatic theologian? Actually, they're both horrible. At least dogmatic theologists, notwithstanding their other faults, are not hypocrites. That's assumed. Yep. "Despite its pretensions to objectivity, science, like any other human institution, places a certain vested interest in its own self-preservation. One of the chief resistances to this progressive penetration of understanding is the dogmatic tendency to adhere to orthodox modes of assigned pattern when confronted with novel details that call for a reordering of understanding. For science this intuitive speculation consists in its assumption of the knowability of the world - in its belief that every event can be correlated with its antecedents in a definite manner exemplifying general principles. To the extent that science seeks to explain the mechanism of physical phenomena with mathematically expressible laws, it reduces the data of concrete observation in particular events to the status of pure abstraction.
Dead Sea Scrolls Are Now Online : The Two-Way hide captionShai Halevi, a photographer working for the Israel Antiquities Authority, IAA, photographs fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Sebastian Scheiner/AP Shai Halevi, a photographer working for the Israel Antiquities Authority, IAA, photographs fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Dead Sea Scrolls are 2,000 years old and very sensitive to direct light. At the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, where they are housed, the scrolls are rotated every few months to minimize the damage. As Bloomberg explains it, the Great Isaiah Scroll, which is the most ancient biblical manuscript on Earth, is so sensitive that only a copy of it is on display. Now, though, in cooperation with Google, the museum has digitized five of those scrolls and today they were made available online. The scrolls are searchable in English and they were digitized using a $250,000 high-resolution camera, so you can zoom in and get a feel for the animal skin they was written on. And the AP provides further background:
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Split Family Faces Cousins: Justine, 29, & Ulric, 29 How much do you and your family members really look alike? Quebec, Canada-based graphic designer and photographer Ulric Collette has created a shockingly cool project where he's exploring the genetic similarities between different members of the same family. (Did you notice that Ulric, the photographer, is one-half of some of these pairings? Update 1: We got in touch with Ulric to ask him a few questions about this really intriguing series (that just happened to go viral). Update 2: What happened after Split Family Faces went viral? Mother/Daughter: Francine, 56 & Catherine, 23 Sisters: Catherine, 23 & Veronica, 29 Daughter/Mother: Veronica, 29 & Francine, 56 Sister/Brother: Karine, Dany & XX years, 25 years Brothers, Christopher, 30 & Ulric, 29 Father/Son: Laval, 56 & Vincent, 29 Father/Son: Denis, 53 & William, 28 Twins: Laurence & Christine, 20 Brothers, Matthew, 25 & Ulric, 29 Son/Father, Nathan, 7, Ulric, 29 How did you come up with this series?
Disguise Your iPhone as the First Macintosh With These Retro Cases The iPhone 4S is one of the slickest devices out there, with its jet-black glass-on-metal look. But we love a good retro throwback--like these old school Apple design iPhone cases by Schreer Delights. The line of cases replicates the look and feel of Apple’s designs for the original Macintosh, iPod, and a few Macs from Apple’s PowerPC days. Anyways, strap yourself into the nostalgia train while we take a look back at Apple before it was cool. First up is the Apple Power Mac G4-themed case. Next up is the iMac G3-inspired case (pictured at top), and of course it’s the one that comes in the most (neon) colors. What's left to say about the iPod? Last stop is a case inspired by the first-ever Macintosh computer (below), which made its debut in 1984. If you dig these iPhone cases, you can buy them directly from Schreer Delights for $45 each. What’s your greatest Mac memory? [Schreer Delights via Geekosystem / Images courtesy of Schreer Delights] Like this?
30 of the World's Greatest Wedding Cakes Few things are more important on a wedding day (apart from both partners turning up; the ring being secure; and nobody objecting during the ceremony) than the cake. Very few weddings are without such a centrepiece. It's just a shame that so many couples opt for the same traditional, boring designs when there is so much opportunity to impress and surprise the guests. Here are 30 brilliant examples, to be used as inspiration for your own big day. Above: A wedding cake fit for an action hero. Above: An illustration of things to come? Above: There's nothing like brutal honesty wrapped in a Portal nod to begin a marriage. Above: A wedding massacre. Above: A show of vanity so incredible as to be impressive. Above: A wedding cake fit for geeks. Above: The most unappetising wedding cake I've ever wanted. Above: A work of baked art. Above: For Stargate fans only. Above: Good news everyone! Above: A cake for the Lego lovers amongst us. Above: Binary deliciousness. Above: Nothing is safe from Steampunk.
The Spudgun Technology Center - Your Source for Spudgun Parts, information, and more! Build Your Own Launcher Alright, you want build your own potato launcher. These instructions will help you on your way to an effective yet simple spudgun that should provide hours of enjoyment for you, your friends, but probably not the old man down the street who gets mad when your car backfires! COPY AND PASTE THIS ENTIRE PAGE INTO WORD AND PRINT IT. A few things to note before proceeding: 1. Here they are, in the recommended order to check them out: Step 1: Getting stuff to build it This materials list is to build a very simple starter model potato launcher, with the intent to get the most bang from your buck (so to speak). Obtain the following items: (qty 1 unless so indicated in []) Suggested tools for building the potato launcher: Step 2: Preparing the materials for assembly To make sure everything goes together properly and smoothly, proper conditioning and sizing of the materials is necessary. Cut the two pipes to size, 10" and 36" with the saw unless you already did so in the store.
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