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Classic Sci-Fi channel

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:07:17 GMT

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The CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION CHANNEL

A Boy and His Dog
The Adams Family
Assignment in Outer Space
Astro Boy
Attack_From_Space
Babylon 5
Battlestar Galactica - original series
Battlestar Galactica - 1980
The Brain That Wouldn't Die
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Cleopatra 2525
The Day the Sky Explorded
Exo-Squad
Firefly
Flash Gordon
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe 1
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe 2
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe 3
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe 4

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe 5

When you want something done right, do it yourself. Right?

I've been very disappointed by the so-called SciFi Channel since its inception. Like many others, I believed that I'd be able to tune in and regularly catch repeats of classic shows, great classic movies, some SF oriented 'made-for content' (coverage of conventions, literature, authors, etc) and maybe some original movies or series, carefully chosen to insure the preservation of the genre.

Tags: channel, sci-fi, classics

Marcel Proust- quotes

Thu, 22 May 2008 09:51:46 GMT

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Clip Source: www.brainyquote.com

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

Tags: proust, brilliant, powerful

Absinthe

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:49:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Wormwood (in French, absinthe; in German, Wermut) is an herb with a perennial root system from which arise branched, firm, leafy stems that are almost woody at the base and reach a height of two to three feet. Its flowers are tiny, greenish-yellow and globular, and its indented leaves have a silvery-gray sheen. The species was cultivated from the Middle Ages to the early part of the 20th century.

Clip Source: www.sciam.com

Evidence of the pale-green liqueur’s toxicity eventually extinguished the fin-de-siècle infatuation with absinthe. The drink’s history began, however, long before the 19th century

Vincent van Gogh shot himself on the afternoon of July 27, 1890, in Auvers-sur-Oise, France; he died in the early morning two days later. Paul F. Gachet, the doctor who attended van Gogh during the last two months of his life, planted a thuja tree on the artist’s grave. The gesture was probably inspired by van Gogh’s admiration of thuja trees and his inclusion of their flamelike images in some of his Auvers paintings.

Gachet’s choice of a grave ornament was unwittingly pathetic. The thuja tree is a classical source of the chemical thujone, a constituent and indeed the toxic principle of the alcoholic drink known as absinthe. There is good evidence to indicate that van Gogh was addicted to absinthe, that his psychosis was exacerbated by thujone and that his fits with hallucinations contributed to his suicide.

Tags: absinthe, history, health, mind, science

A Window On Many Philosophers

Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:31:58 GMT

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Clip Source: www.trincoll.edu

The philosophers covered in The Window are listed below, alphabetically.
Choosing a name will bring you to that philosopher's page.

Please check out our newest additions, the Islamic Thinkers page.

Ambrose	Anscombe	Anselm
Aquinas	Arendt	Aristotle
Augustine	Babbage	Barnes
Berkeley	de Beauvoir	Buber
Carnap	Princess Christina	Churchland
Confucius	Dennett	Derrida
Descartes	Diotima	Durkheim
Engels	Epicurus	Fermat
Foucault	Frege	Fuller
Hegel	Heidegger	Heloise
Heraclitus	Hobbes	Hume
Husserl	Hypatia	James
Kant	Khapa	Kierkegaard
King, M.L.	Lao-Tzu	Leibniz
Locke	Lovelace	Maritain
Marx	Mill	von Neumann
Nietzsche	Peabody	Piscopia
Plato	Popper	Rand
Rousseau	Russell	Santayana
Sartre	Scotus	Socrates
Spinoza	Strawson	Sung Tzu
	Wittgenstein

If you don't find the philosopher you're looking for, check out the other sites available on the Internet, or do a search for a specific individual. Please contact us if you would like to make a contribution or suggestion.

Tags: philosophy

A DNA driven world?

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:21:47 GMT

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Clip Source: www.betterhumans.com

[Video]

Gene pioneer Dr. J. Craig Venter gives the 32nd Richard Dimbleby Lecture, originally broadcast on Dec 4, 2007 on BBC1. One of the principal scientists who decoded the human genome is about to create the first artificial life form on Earth. So what does the future hold in A DNA-Driven World?

Tags: dna, craig venter, future, darwin, science, artificial life, evolution

Evolutionary Metaphysics - Shattering the Sacred Myths

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:50:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Contents

Clip Source: www.evolutionary-metaphysics.net

1. Troubled Times
2. The Story of Human Evolution
3. Advancing Technology
4. The History of Ancient Israel
5. Ancient Greek Philosophy
6. A Rational History of Christianity
7. The Rise of Modern Science
8. Hinduism and Buddhism
9. A Rational History of Islam
10. Analysis of Ancient Beliefs
11. The Rise of Modern Democracy
12. Sexual Morality
13. Modern Materialism
14. Deepening Consciousness
15. Politics and Religion
16. Replacing Religion with Science
17. Evolutionary Metaphysics
18. Peace and prosperity

Evolutionary Metaphysics means “to contemplate the existence of the universe in light of the theory of evolution”.

Throughout history and still today, the vast majority of people have been conditioned to believe in religious myths and philosophical ideals that may seem very real but which in fact have no basis in reality.

This book will attempt to explain why these myths and misconceptions are still so popular. And it will try to convince you not to commit to any belief about our existence that cannot be proven beyond doubt.

Clip Source: www.evolutionary-metaphysics.net

The birth of the universe
The formation of the earth
Organic molecules
The first spark of life
Single cells
The process of evolution
Multi-celled animals
Sensory perception
Predators and prey
Plants
Reptiles
Mammals
Dinosaurs
Learned behavior
Cooperation and competition
The extinction of the dinosaurs
The evolution of mammals
Tree dwellers
The ancestors of humans
The power of speech
Human migration
The development of culture
Farming villages
The Bronze Age
The rise of empires
Ancient temples
The Iron Age
The art of writing

Tags: evolution, metaphysics, philosophy, history, religion, myths, faith, book, ebook, free, literature

The cost of food: Facts and figures

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:04:27 GMT

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Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Explore the facts and figures behind the rising price of food across the globe.

Rising oil prices and fears over climate change have seen a massive rise in the use of maize to make bio-fuels, pushing up food prices

There will be billions more mouths to feed by 2050, making an increased demand for food a long-term trend

Tags: food, corn, wheat, world, population

A curious quest

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:13:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: play it, you'll love it

Clip Source: scienceblogs.com

Now, this is the way we ought to be testing our children:

Questionaut: A Point-and-Click Quiz Adventure by Amanita Design and the BBC

One of the most talented names in the casual gaming business, Amanita Design, creators of the delightful Samorost series, have just teamed up with the BBC to come up with this absolute gem of a game. It’s so cute, you won’t realize it is supposed to be educational... that is until you find yourself completely stumped on a math* question.

The questions are aimed at 11-year-olds, but that may not keep you from scratching your head a few times. Even finding the questions can be a little tricky. The game begins with two friends lazily lounging on a tiny pastoral planet. As you click around and explore, you’ll set off little chain reactions. One of these will lead to one of the friend’s hat being blown away. The other friend promptly chases after it in his hot air balloon. Now, this is where you come in

it is worth playing through more than once.

Tags: games, quest, knowledge

The Planet's Other "Intelligent" Species

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:28:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The year 2007 has been declared as Year of the Dolphin by the United Nations and United Nations Environment Program. But what do we really know about these incredible creatures?

Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

Partly because their brains are roughly the same size as humans, and are similarly or superiorly complex (although differently evolved in structure), some marine biologists have speculated that dolphins, and other Cetaceans, are at least as intelligent as humans, and could have several unknown communicative abilities, that surpass human understanding.

Critics say that if dolphins were as smart as us there’d be more evidence of it. But what type of evidence would suffice? The fact that Cetaceans are suffering from (rather than creating) the kind of environmental suicide that humans indulge in, offers little proof of inferiority.

At the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Mississippi, Kelly the Dolphin is earning her reputation. In fact, it could very well be that she has now got the upper hand on her human trainers… or pets?

Dolphins have long been observed to take great care and exhibit much intelligence in their day to day lives

Tags: dolphins, intelligence, species

"Encyclopedia of Life" -Online 'Macroscope' Launched

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:36:24 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

“The launch of the Encyclopedia of Life will have a profound and creative effect in science. It aims not only to summarize all that we know of Earth’s life forms, but also to accelerate the discovery of the vast array that remain unknown. This great effort promises to lay out new directions for research in every branch of biology.” EOL Video

Edward O. Wilson, Harvard evolutionary biologist and naturalist.

Like a modern-day Aristotle, Harvard's famed biologist, E.O. Wilson, unveiled the first 30,000 pages of the massive online Encyclopedia of Life yesterday at the prestigious Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) Conference in Monterey, California.

Intended as a tool for scientists and policymakers and a fascinating resource for anyone interested in the living world, the EOL is being developed by a unique collaboration between scientists and the general public

EOL hopes to accelerate our understanding of the world’s remaining biodiversity

Tags: biodiversity, life, encyclopedia

Look Great Free on-Line Documentaries

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:57:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I haven't watched any yet.

Clip Source: best.online.docus.googlepages.com

Tags: free, documentaries

Articles on Writing (by SFWA)

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 13:05:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: much more @ source

Clip Source: www.sfwa.org

"How Do I Learn to Write?" A Bibliography for Writers by Terry McGarry

The Basics by Melisa Michaels

Mistakes In Writing by Roger MacBride Allen

Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them by Melisa Michaels

How I Write by David Alexander Smith

Writer's Workshops by David Alexander Smith

Some Notes on Critiquing Method by David Alexander Smith

Writerisms and other Sins: A Writer's Shortcut to Stronger Writing by C.J. Cherryh

50 Strategies for Making Yourself Work by Jerry Oltion

Worldbuilding Questions by Patricia C. Wrede

Building New Worlds by Stephen Baxter (from the Bulletin)

Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy by Jeffrey A. Carver. Geared mainly for younger aspiring writers (high school and middle school aged), but not exclusively so.

Tags: writing, write, howto, articles, resource, list, literature, sf, fiction, help

The Physics of Information: What the Universe Doesn't Want You to Know

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:04:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The panellists for the discussion werr. Leonard Susskind is widely recognized as one of the most creative researchers in the field of theoretical particle physics.
Dr. Seth Lloyd is a Professor of mechanical engineering at MIT.
Dr. Christopher Fuchs is a Long Term Visitor with Perimeter Institute and is an adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of New Mexico.
Sir Anthony Leggett is from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

Clip Source: www.cbc.ca

Physicists are not like you and me. That’s because they don't see the world the same way we do.

Take information, for instance. When you have a question or an interest in some topic, and you want more information about it, chances are you look for answers by reading a book, searching the Internet, or even listening to a radio program. But that's not how physicists view information. They want to know what it's actually made of. And that idea leads to a whole lot of weird and quirky views of how the universe works.

The Physics of Information was the topic of a recent public forum, sponsored by Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, and moderated by Bob McDonald. And Quirks was there to record the event. Do ideas about information and reality inspire fruitful new approaches to the hardest problems of modern physics?

Tags: information, universe, physics

Lost Egyptian City Reveals Horrors of Lives of Pharoh's Builders

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:28:37 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

Evidence of the brutal lives endured by some ancient Egyptians to build the monuments of the Pharaohs has been uncovered by archaeologists at Amarna, a new capital built on the orders of the Pharaoh Akhenaten, 3,500 years ago.

Archaeologists from a British-based team made a breakthrough when they found human bones in the desert, which had been washed out by floods.

Skeletal remains from a lost city in the middle of Egypt suggest many ordinary people died in their teenage years and lived a punishing lifestyle with common spinal injuries, poor nutrition and stunted growth. The temples and palaces required thousands of large stone blocks. Working in summer temperatures of 40C (104F), the workers would have had to chisel these out of the rock and transport them 1.5 miles (2.5 km) from the quarries to the city.

Even Akhanaten's son, Tutankhamen, died aged just 20; and archaeologists are now beginning to believe that there might also have been an epidemic here.

Tags: ancient egypt, pharaohs, archaeology

multiple intelligences and education

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:29:05 GMT

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Clip Source: www.infed.org

I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place. Knowledge is not the same as morality, but we need to understand if we are to avoid past mistakes and move in productive directions. An important part of that understanding is knowing who we are and what we can do... Ultimately, we must synthesize our understandings for ourselves. The performance of understanding that try matters are the ones we carry out as human beings in an imperfect world which we can affect for good or for ill.

Howard Earl Gardner's (1943- ) work has been marked by a desire not to just describe the world but to help to create the conditions to change it. The scale of his contribution can be gauged from following comments in his introduction to the tenth anniversary edition of Howard Gardner's classic work Frames of Mind. The theory of multiple intelligences:

Tags: intelligences, knowledge, understanding