juin 2011
When shit happens. →
Taoism : Shit happens Hare krishna : Shit happens Rama Rama Ding Ding Hinduism : This shit has happened before Islam : That shit happens is the will of Allah Zen : What is the sound of shit happening? Existentialism : Shit doesn’t happen; shit is Buddhism : When shit happens, is it really shit? Confucianism : Confucius said, “Shit happens” 7th day...
Absurdism.
En philosophie, «l’absurde » se réfère au conflit entre la tendance de l’homme à chercher un sens inhérent à la vie et son incapacité à en trouver.”Humainement impossible”, dans ce contexte absurde ne signifie pas «logiquement impossible», mais plutôt traditionnellement, cette quête suivant une des deux voies: soit conclure que la vie n’a pas de sens, et que ce...
YOU CAN MAKE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIFE AND...
Boat would sail on Saturn moon's sea.
Scientists are working on a mission to send a robotic boat to explore an extraterrestrial ocean in hopes of learning about how the building blocks of life began to assemble.
The destination: Titan, the largest moon of Saturn — bigger than Mercury and Pluto — which sports lakes of liquid methane and ethane near its northern polar region.
“We have no expectation of finding...
Emmanuel Top :: Mad Dog
More evidence for a previously unknown species of...
SVANTE PAABO, the DNA palaeontologist whose work provided the inspiration for “Jurassic Park”, has produced a nice Christmas present for students of human evolution. He and his colleagues have confirmed, using the creature’s whole genome, that a fossil finger bone which is at least 30,000 years old, and which was found in a cave in the Altai mountains of Siberia, comes from a previously unknown...
Stan Lee's Superhumans. →
Tout au long de l’histoire, les forces de l’évolution et la mutation génétique ont doté les êtres humains avec d’étonnants de nouvelles capacités et fonctionnalités. C’est un processus qui se poursuit encore aujourd’hui, et il est mis en exergue dans cette emission proposée par Stan Lee, “Superhumans”. En fait co-organisée par Stan Lee, le créateur...
Les Fées de Cottingley, ou l'ancêtre du Fake.
La petite Elsie Wright et sa cousine Frances Griffiths s’amusent régulièrement dans les bois situés à côté de la maison familiale. En juillet 1917, les filles prétendent avoir vu des fées mais personne ne les croit. Elles décident alors de prendre l’appareil photo du père d’Elsie et reviennent avec une photographie de Frances entourée de fées. Quelques semaines plus tard,...
The meaning of Coincidence.
Coincidence is where two or more unrelated things seem to occur in close enough proximity to suggest some relationship between them. Eg you dream of a school friend you haven’t heard from for years only to get a reunion invitation from that same person next day.
Between getting the idea for this post and actually writing it a friend told me of two instances when people she hadn’t seen for...
Bruce Pennington :: Children of Tomorrow
Scientists construct synthetic proteins that... →
In a groundbreaking achievement that could help scientists “build” new biological systems, Princeton University scientists have constructed for the first time artificial proteins that enable the growth of living cells…
“What we have here are molecular machines that function quite well within a living organism even though they were designed from scratch and expressed from artificial genes,”...
Illogical beliefs reference manual. →
