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Does That Mean They’re Not Loonies?
Daniel Dennett’s recent article on skepticism (in the Guardian) was accompanied by what I thought was an amusing editor’s correction: This article was amended on Thursday 16 July 2009. Moon-landing sceptics were referred to as “loonies”, contrary to the Guardian … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, atheist, Daniel Dennett, free speech, Michael Shermer, moon, moon-landing skeptics, name-calling, religion, skepticism
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40 Years Ago, on July 20, 1969, Human Beings Stepped onto the Moon
And here’s what the front page of the New York Times looked like on July 21, 1969: I can’t help but hear, in the headline, an echo of the ancient Roman Imperium: We came, we saw, we conquered. And here’s … Continue reading
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Tagged anniversary, history, life, lunar, lunar surface, moon, moonwalk, NASA, neil armstrong, progress, science, space
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What’s It All About? See Here?
If it were evening, and you were sitting beneath a full moon with a Zen priest, and you asked him what the universe’s ultimate meaning is, he might simply point you to the moon. But what if you were sitting on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddhism, earth, existentialism, meditation, moon, philosophy, psychology, Reinhold Niebuhr, science, universe, yoga, Zen
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“Nothing Staged Can Stay” (A Poem by Santi Tafarella)
before the night’s glittering black curtain the Father of dung beatles moves the moon ——————– What was I trying to do with this tiny poem? For one thing, I was trying to think about the things that … Continue reading
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Tagged astronomy, death, English, life, literature, moon, poem, poems, poetry, Santi Tafarella, theatre
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Impact
On November 20th, a meteor broke through earth’s atmosphere over Edmonton, Canada:
Apollo v. Dionysus: The First Paragraph of Friedrich Nietzche’s “The Birth of Tragedy”
Friedrich Nietzsche (first paragraph of The Birth of Tragedy): We shall have gained much for the science of aesthetics, once we perceive not merely by logical inference, but with the immediate certainty of vision, that the continuous development of … Continue reading
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Tagged Apollo, Apollo and Dionysus, Dionysus, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greek tragedy, literature, moon, philosophy, poetry, psychology, Santi Tafarella, Satan
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“Nothing Staged Can Stay”: A Poem by Santi Tafarella
before the night’s glittering black curtain the Father of dung beatles moves the moon
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Tagged astronomy, biology, drama, evolution, life, literature, moon, night, poems, poetry, Santi Tafarella, woman
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