February 2009
23 posts
“Comparing science and religion isn’t like comparing apples and oranges - it’s more like apples and sewing machines.”
—Jack Horner (a paleontologist who explains his plans to hatch a dinosaur from a chicken embryo in this month’s Wired)
Wanna see the universe? It'll cost $15.
“No matter where you live, with this easy-to-assemble, 50-mm (2-inch) diameter, 25- to 50-power achromatic refractor, you can see the celestial wonders that Galileo Galilei first glimpsed 400 years ago and that still delight stargazers today. These include lunar craters and mountains, four moons circling Jupiter, the phases of Venus, Saturn’s rings, and countless stars invisible to the unaided eye.”
My astrophysicist friend Eric (yeah, seriously) told me about this supercheap telescope. Not a bad deal for 15 bones.
Oh, yeah. One more thing:
“The odds of being attacked by a shark have dropped this year — along with your chances for owning a home and retiring with dignity.”
—BrightSideOfTheRecession
“The falling price of gas has made living in your car even more affordable.”
—www.BrightSideOfTheRecession.com
“I’ve got my own little recession plan—everyone needs to make an evaluation of the three little shops that they like, and they need to spend in them. That’s something I’m personally doing. I go to the little restaurants I like, the place I get my glasses. Even though the spirit of the city is shot, if there are things in your neighborhood that you don’t want to see go away, then you have to support them. Otherwise, the big brands will just come sweeping in, and there’ll be nothing left.”
—Sound advice from custom clothier Alex Wilcox in New York mag.
New York finds out what that smell was ...
Whenever a strange scent envelopes Manhattan, we blame Jersey. And in the case of the Maple Syrup Mystery that befell the island a while back, we were right.
