The Preliminary Manuscripts for Isaac Newton's 1687 Principia: 1684-1685 (Cambridge University Library Newton Manuscripts Series, 2)
whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
“..What do Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Darwin, Charlotte Bronte, Leonardo Da Vinci and Sir Isaac Newton all have in common? You guessed it! (Or perhaps you didn’t…) They were all vegetarians! As far back as the 6th century BC the famous Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras was advocating vegetarianism .. .. and many great minds since, including [...]
To God and my country (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
SPOOKY! Is Unknown Force In Universe Acting On Dark Matter? It is possible that a non-gravitational fifth force is ruling the dark matter with an invisible hand, leaving the same fingerprints on all galaxies, irrespective of their ages, shapes and sizes." Such a force might solve an even bigger mystery, known as 'dark energy', which is ruling the accelerated expansion of the Universe. A more radical...
The Official Site of Grant Miller. (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
An infinite number of monkeys randomly typing at an infinite number of typewriters could eventually reproduce the complete works of William Shakespeare. But a few monkeys would secretly think it was Christopher Marlowe, not Shakespeare. An infinite number of monkeys randomly typing at an infinite number of typewriters could eventually reproduce the complete works of William Shakespeare but they wouldn't...
Nature (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Robert Boyle's character is often obscured by the shadow of Isaac Newton, but a masterful biography reveals him as larger than life, explains Peter Anstey.
Llewtrah's Soapbox (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Larklight In which Art Mumby and his annoyingly ladylike sister Myrtle see their father captured by giant white spiders, are themselves rescued/captured by the piratical Jack Havock and his crew of assorted aliens and who must save known space from the spider menace. Our heroes race about the planets in their ships powered by Isaac Newton's alchemy and end up back on earth battling a giant robotic...
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Sir Isaac Newton would be amazed by this awesome video, showing Saturn moons causing gravitational waves as they orbit near its F Ring. These images can only be taken every 15 years, during Saturn's equinox. Thankfully, Cassini is there now. In the video you can see Prometheus (in the inner side) and Pandora (on the outer side), disturbing and smoothing the rings one after the other, which is why...
Europe 1700-1914 (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Above is Frederick the Great's palace of Sans Souci at Potsdam, built in the style known as Frederician rococo. The Enlightenment was a dramatic new moment in the history of western Europe, marking a new cultural divide. As Alexander Pope put it: Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night, God said, Let Newton be! and all was light. The beginning of the Enlightenment is difficult to determine. Scholars...
the brain police (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
There was this poker game with Albert Einstein, Sir Isaac Newton, Data and Stephen Hawking.... I guess I was a closet Trekkie for years...I used to watch Star Trek Next Generation religiously, but I never saw this episode!
stroppyblog (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Regular readers may have noticed that myself and Janine sometimes write posts on aspergers and we get frustrated at the often negative press. Well here is something positive : ... Clay Marzo, who exploded on to the scene at Puerto Escondido in Mexico last month with his first pro victory, and is now being dubbed the most naturally gifted surfer of his generation, has a high-functioning form of autism...
MooPig Wisdom (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
"Without fanfare or ceremony, the most celebrated scientist in the country, Stephen Hawking, quietly stepped down this week from the most prestigious post in British physics. "Hawking's successor as Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge University will be decided by committee this month, but as he moves on, leading physicists warn that Britain risks losing the next generation of...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
If you were asked to name the leading lights of Western philosophy down the ages, the following will, without doubt, feature prominently: Friedrich Nietzsche, George Santayana, Jean-Paul Sartre, Benedict de Spinoza, Arthur Schopenhauer, Henry David Thoreau, Voltaire, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, John Locke and David Hume. Any listing of great historians, novelists and...
SOCIAL ZYMURGY: THE CULTURE OF BEER (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
**Editor's Note** This is my entry into this weeks Flash Fiction Friday . This is based solely on a joke that a venerable Italian friend on mine told. Enjoy! “I deduced that the forces which keep the planets in their orbs must [be] reciprocally as the squares of their distances from the centers about which they revolve: and thereby compared the force requisite to keep the Moon in her Orb with...
Thoughts from Kansas (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Darwinism and popular culture: Darwinists resort to whining when they are not popular (Also, this just in, water runs downhill) : In responding to a news item from two weeks ago, I'll assume Creation still has gotten a distributor. Therefore it's crummy and boring and will never get a distributor, as it did last week. With Bonus Shorter D'oh! Leary: Origin of life theory: Complexity theorist Kauffman...
Alex Constantine's Blacklist (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
Cameron is the founder of The Way of the Master (WOTM). According to Wikipedia, WOTM is "a United States-based Christian evangelism ministry founded in 2002 and headed by American actor Kirk Cameron, New Zealand-born evangelist Ray Comfort and American radio host Todd Friel. The organization includes a TV show, radio broadcast, books, online school, small-group training courses, and a website....
Laelaps (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
This year has seen an explosion of books written by science bloggers, and it looks like the trend is going to continue well into 2010. Jason Rosenhouse recently published The Monty Hall Problem and is hard at work on a new title about what goes on at creationist conferences. Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum released Unscientific America , and Kirshenbaum is nearing completion on a new book, The...
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