Archive for April, 2007
Ulrich Woelk: To the Big Bang and back - signandsight
Closed Published by n1kk1 April 29th, 2007 in Uncategorized.The main stones of Stonehenge function as astronomical markings. They make it possible to determine the day of the solstice or to predict the lunar eclipse. The circle of stones, once erected to honour the gods, is also one of the first instruments for extracting God from the heavens by revealing his mathematical characteristics.
Ulrich Woelk: […]
V. S. Naipaul – Excerpt from The Enigma of Arrival
Closed Published by n1kk1 April 29th, 2007 in Uncategorized.Excerpt from The Enigma of Arrival
V. S. Naipaul Excerpt selected by Horace Engdahl, permanent secretary, the Swedish Academy.
(Chapter: Jack’s Garden, page: 52-53)
To see the possibility, the certainty, of ruin, even at the moment of creation: it was my temperament. Those nerves had been given me as a child in Trinidad partly by our family circumstances: […]
Medicine has increased the ranks of the elderly. Can it make old age any easier?
Atul Gawande in The New Yorker:
Why we age is the subject of vigorous debate. The classical view is that aging happens because of random wear and tear. A newer view holds that aging is more orderly and genetically driven. Proponents of […]
It’s Not a Movie Its A Warning or The Invasion From Planet C Review
Closed Published by n1kk1 April 25th, 2007 in Uncategorized.The Invasion From Planet C is aptly named. It’s a C grade movie, with C grade acting and I loved every minute of it. Never-mind that some of the acting is painful (though not as painful as any line delivered in Campaign 2) and that you have a few friends that longboard with similar abilities […]
From The National Geographic:
The most Earthlike planet yet found, it orbits a red dwarf star and likely contains liquid water, said the European astronomers who made the discovery. The planet is estimated to be only 50 percent larger than Earth, making it the smallest planet yet found outside the solar system, according to a […]
Leslie Camhi in the New York Times:
Can an excess of intelligence be a crippling force, creatively? That’s one of the questions haunting “Poison Friends,” a French psychological thriller by the writer and director Emmanuel Bourdieu, opening Friday in New York. In the film, André (Thibault Vinçon), the brilliant ringleader of a band of Parisian graduate […]