Remember “Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy?” Which told us that the answer to the meaning of life is: “42”? 42? How ridiculous. How incomplete. How could that ever be the answer to something so vast and incomprehensible?! It’s as vague an answer as most religions or your parents will give you when you’re little – with their “well’s” and “ya know’s” and mumbling soft-languaged replies. Which made Neil DeGrasse’s recent.. Read More
Fashion, turn to the daft: Both’a these peeps need to get over themselves.
“The sun is but a morning star.” I like this Walden quote. Even though it’s a bit anthropocentric (the sun is there all the time and morning is just an experience we share here on rock ball number three from it depending on our positional relationship to it), it’s also cosmologically holistic: it’s just a star. One of many. Our life giving cosmic blob of gases, inconceivable heat, and fire.. Read More
Going the extra [s]mile
“It takes fewer muscles to smile than frown…” That’s bullshit, you know. It actually takes ten muscles to smile and six to frown. Roughly. In fact, some people have more “smile” muscles than others, apparently. While I’m not sure how that works (and not sure if I like the fact that someone else has more muscle-potential than I do #grincompetition), it is being said that making the effort and bridging.. Read More
FashioNobel musings
When I decided to switch from my liberal arts major to a biology one in college, I had my doubts. It felt so permanent – like such a final departure from what I was good at, that I thought mayhaps my artistic passions would wither away and die altogether. Would moving into my left brain, thinking logically, and problem-solving based on facts and numbers somehow stymie my creativity? It was.. Read More
Too bad weightlessness day isn’t real :/
Ah… this story would have been so cool if it were true. The Snopes debunked prank claimed that for “five minutes on January 4th”, we’d all experience partial weightlessness because of “planetary alignment”. The idea was that the phenomenon would ensue due to the combined gravitational forces of “Pluto moving behind Jupiter”. Aside from the fact that Pluto’s not a planet, so we don’t get to say it’s part of.. Read More
New life origin theory = light + hot water + time.
So, a new theory about how life started has landed just like our astral ancestors did on earth eons ago. Jeremy England’s theory doesn’t challenge Darwin. “On the contrary,” he says, “I am just saying that from the perspective of the physics, you might call Darwinian evolution a special case of a more general phenomenon.”. It just kinda zooms out on the bigger picture of why and how it was.. Read More
A wrench was emailed to the Space Station… Emailed?!
For some reason, I got more excited about this 3D printer NASA story than I should have. 3D printing’s not a terribly new technology – it’s been around for 30 years or so. But hearing that an astronaut who needed a wrench received one from NASA via email… into outer space… was just too many layers of cosmic awesome for me to handle. Maybe it’s because – here on earth.. Read More
Science says: we exhale our fat. Wait… what?
When Russell Simmons went to his first yoga class, it wasn’t to get some inner peace. It was to get some outer piece. While that changed drastically for him since that first visit, I think that’s what attracts a lot of people – men and women alike. Men wanna ogle dat ass. Chicks wanna own it. But – as many times as I’ve heard these transformation stories and people have.. Read More
To free – or knot to free?
Screw black holes and the holographic universe theory. No one cares. What I really require is a detailed, scientific explanation for: Why I have to spend my days trying to free up knots and kinks. (Knot what I meant…) Finally, the beautiful minds of the world unraveled mine by explaining why knot-unraveling is so not easy. You know what I mean – there are the Christmas lights (an obvious one)… Read More
“I carry your DNA. I carry it in my DNA…”
Okay, I like the whole “awakened consciousness” stuff as much as the next person. But I gotta draw the line somewhere. That’s why when I saw this video of some dude who sounded like he was living in a mountaintop trailer, broadcasting daily about the grey astral immigrants who abduct him on a semi-regular basis, my eyebrows did an involuntary raise. I try not to judge. Some people have just.. Read More