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Gentle readers, it is going to be a busy couple of weeks, therefore blogging has taken a back burner temporarily. Please enjoy these brilliant videos from the Living Dinosaur about Science and our Universe. If I have time, I will add more posts to fill the gaps in my usual posting schedule.
The lengths we go through to gain the illusion of control… Enjoy this thoughtful exploration of death and atheism.
What happens when we realize that religion is just a cultural vehicle to salve our irrational fear of death? Theramin Trees produces another outstanding video that engages the intellect with explanations of why we act the way we do when faced with the facts of our mortality. Seventeen minutes long, but you won’t notice them passing.
I’m currently learning this piece and hope to have it worked up to performance state by the end of June. Some of the tricky bits include keeping your fingers in the right position while going on the upward scale melodies and of course, counting out in your head that initial half-note in the left hand, to keep the darn tempo consistent. :)
Videos like these get my heart beating faster. The sheer amount of ignorance displayed by the faithfully deluded is recorded for the world to watch and collectively groan as they*facepalm* to shield themselves from the pants-on-fire grade of stupid emanating from the mouths of creationists.
We have rationalists now (thank you AaronRa) that are unafraid to take religious bullshite to task, and expose the dishonesty and the delusion in public and show how dishonest and deceitful religion actually is.
Religious ‘arguments’ – Check.
Intellectually bankrupt – Check.
Thunderf00t laying the smack down on delusional christians – Check.
I’m sure they don’t mind, they just need to bloop around being all penguin-y while our scientists study their habits and habitat. :)
By counting penguins in images taken from space, scientists estimate the population of emperor penguins was around 595,000 in 2009 — roughly double previous estimates of between 270,000 and 350,000, reports a study led by the British Antarctic Survey.
Emperor penguins, which stand as tall as a six-year-old child, breed and spend much of their lives on sea ice that is expected to melt significantly in coming decades.
“But it’s very hard to predict how this will affect emperor penguin numbers if you don’t have an idea of how many there are in the first place,” Fretwell said.
Previously, it had been very difficult to get an accurate count of emperor penguins because the birds breed in such harsh, remote areas during the Antarctic winter, and it’s hard for scientists to get there, Fretwell said.
The recent satellite count located four previously unknown colonies, and two or three others that had been thought to exist, but had never been located. The results show that colonies exist all the way around the Antarctic coastline, not just in certain areas where researchers had found previously known colonies.
Technology rocks, I really cannot imagine having to actually go to Antarctica and counting these fellows by hand. Full marks to the biologists who did so before we went all spy cam on our penguin friends.
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