April 2013
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Apr 27th
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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:...
Apr 25th
July 2012
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Jul 7th
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Jul 7th
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June 2012
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Jun 26th
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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.”
Jun 26th
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“For me, the most ironic token of that moment in history is the plaque signed by...”
– Carl Sagan
Jun 7th
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Jun 6th
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May 2012
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May 14th
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May 13th
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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
Apr 25th
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Apr 24th
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Apr 24th
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Apr 23rd
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Apr 20th
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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.
Apr 19th
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Anonymous asked: Are you applying to graduate school? If so, where?
Apr 19th
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Apr 10th
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March 2012
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Mar 20th
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Mar 19th
February 2012
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buddhist-kingdom-deactivated201 asked: What a lovely blog!
Feb 26th
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Feb 26th
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“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do...”
– Malcolm S. Forbes
Feb 18th
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Feb 7th
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Feb 4th
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January 2012
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Jan 28th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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Anonymous asked: Would you please update your Tumblr? I'm tired of reading about friggin' monkeys! -BT
Jan 26th
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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…
Jan 6th
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Jan 6th
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December 2011
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Literary Icon Christopher Hitchens Falls to Cancer →
Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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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...
Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 3rd
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Dec 3rd
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November 2011
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Anonymous asked: Great Tumblr ^_^
Nov 22nd
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Nov 7th
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Nov 4th
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October 2011
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“Science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war.”
– Louis Pasteur
Oct 22nd
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“You might want to reconsider the elephant as the symbol of your party, an animal...”
– Stephen Colbert
Oct 18th
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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!
Oct 18th
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blakpete asked: What would you say is your greatest success?
Oct 16th
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Oct 16th
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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.
Oct 13th
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Oct 10th
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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...
Sep 30th
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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.
Sep 24th
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theedgetakesoverforvin asked: The best part is when he compared atheist to the KKK, a radical Christian group.
Sep 22nd