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Image of Earth from Mars (100 Million Miles Away): What Would Augustine Say?

Image source: NASA (of course). The rover? Curiosity. __________ The fact that this image was taken by Curiosity raises a question: Given that Augustine included curiosity among the vices in his Confessions (Book 10, section 35), would he have approved … Continue reading

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Mars Does Not Have Life

At least, there is no methane evidence to support the idea that there is life on Mars. This depressing little piece of news was reported today by Kenneth Chang in The New York Times science section: In findings that are … Continue reading

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Huell Howser Impersonator

Comedian James Adomian parodies Huell Howser perfectly here (but you’ll have to click over to YouTube to watch it): __________ Howser was an institution on public television in California, going around the state interviewing people. Homosexual and originally from Tennessee, … Continue reading

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Amazing Mars Curiosity Rover Photo

NASA recently released this self-portrait of the Curiosity rover.

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Gilbert Levin’s Claim: If Curiosity Discovers Organics in the Martian Soil, Mars Has Life

Gilbert Levin is a man on a mission. For the Viking missions to Mars in 1976, he was the person who designed one of the experiments that searched for life. The results came back positive. So positive, in fact, that … Continue reading

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Mars and the F-Word (Fossil)

Now that Curiosity has landed safely in Gale Crater and directly upon an alluvial fan at the base of Mount Sharp–a mountain likened in its strategraphic layering to the Grand Canyon, my imagination is vexed. I want the rover to … Continue reading

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Curiosity is John Wesley Powell on Mars

Last night, my wife Rachel and I took our two daughters, Lia and Aria, to the Will Geer Theatricum in Los Angeles to see a hippie rendition of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure. But though the Will Geer production was colorful and I … Continue reading

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Does God Want You To Be Curious?

In a recent interview, science writer Philip Ball talks about his new book on curiosity, and implicates religion in stifling it: It’s certainly true that the instinct to know more about our environment must go back as far as humanity … Continue reading

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Thinking About Big Words

Over carrots: “The fact that you get upset when there are things that you don’t understand just shows you have curiosity.”

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