April 2013
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Chrystal Cabinet
The world of things entered your infant mind To populate that crystal cabinet. Within its walls the strangest partners met, And things turned thoughts did propagate their kind. For, once within, corporeal fact could find A spirit. Fact and you in mutual debt Built there your little microcosm - which yet Had hugest tasks to its small self assigned. Dead men can live there, and converse with stars:...
July 2012
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June 2012
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“We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills, critical thinking skills...”
– The Texas Republican 2012 platform, which officially opposes teaching students “critical thinking skills.”
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“For me, the most ironic token of that moment in history is the plaque signed by...”
– Carl Sagan
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May 2012
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April 2012
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“The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen...”
– Ferdinand Magellan
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Anonymous asked: A little bug told me that your picture post in January with the butterfly is a Karner Blue Butterfly that is native to New Hampshire and an endangered species. The plant it is on is wild blue lupine, which is the only plant that the butterfly will consume. If give the choice to eat domestic lupine, it will starve its self.
Anonymous asked: Are you applying to graduate school? If so, where?
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March 2012
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February 2012
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buddhist-kingdom-deactivated201 asked: What a lovely blog!
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“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do...”
– Malcolm S. Forbes
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January 2012
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Anonymous asked: Would you please update your Tumblr? I'm tired of reading about friggin' monkeys! -BT
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First Genetically Modified Monkeys Born →
Researchers in Oregon have made chimeras from 6 different embryos. Why is the religious right suspiciously quiet on the morality of designer monkey babies? I wonder…
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December 2011
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Literary Icon Christopher Hitchens Falls to Cancer →
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Dear Pope Benedict
Auction off the the Vatican, its artwork, its historical documents, and its artifacts for all they’re worth (500 billion - 1 trillion $s?). Use some of the cash to buy a small house somewhere, and the rest to feed/educate millions. That’ll help undo 1,500+ years of indoctrination, murder, and child molestation—-and “guarantee your way into heaven.” Oh, what’s...
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November 2011
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Anonymous asked: Great Tumblr ^_^
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October 2011
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“Science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war.”
– Louis Pasteur
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“You might want to reconsider the elephant as the symbol of your party, an animal...”
– Stephen Colbert
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Absurdity over Stem Cells - Where "Human" Begins →
Article about the nonsense involved in most anti-stem cell arguments, and the influence of Church upon the State’s decisions. Check it out!
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blakpete asked: What would you say is your greatest success?
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Child Sacrifice on the Rise →
This is disgusting. Apparently in Uganda, rise in wealth is proportional to rise in ritual child decapitation. Nobody from their government would interview, and the police are accused of ignoring over 900 alleged murders.
They believe that the sacrifice of a child (who can be bought on the black market) brings fortune and luck. More reason to attack irrational belief systems.
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September 2011
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The Consequences of "Frankenfood"
Since the development of recombinant DNA technology, genetically modified (GM) food has been a hot-button topic. In the era of cut-and-paste gene engineering, it has become possible to move genes between incredibly disparate species1. The inception of this novel biotechnology came with both obvious practical uses and questions of consequence. Many have long feared that artificially modified foods...
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Scientists Take First Step Towards Creating... →
Scientists are trying to make evolving entities out of inorganic matter, and are having some success. It would be really incredible to see true alien life emerge from our own hands.
theedgetakesoverforvin asked: The best part is when he compared atheist to the KKK, a radical Christian group.
