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Neil deGrassi Tyson Makes the Economic Case for Reviving the U.S. Space Program

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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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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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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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“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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Impact

On November 20th, a meteor broke through earth’s atmosphere over Edmonton, Canada:

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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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Fichte’s ‘Anstob’ and Planet Obama: What Do Barack, the Earth, the Moon—and You—Have in Common?

When Barack Obama spoke in Berlin this past week, he spoke of the improbable journey that has brought the grandson of a house servant, and the son of a Kenyan goat farmer, to center stage in an American presidential election. But … Continue reading

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On July 21, 1969, the Day after Astronauts Stepped onto the Moon, What Did the Front Page of the New York Times Look Like?

  I can’t help but hear, in the headline, an echo of the ancient Roman Imperium: We came, we saw, we conquered.

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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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