Only One Pale Blue Dot

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realcleverscience:

Frans de Waal, Moral Behavior in Animals

I’ve been getting back into Ted talks and have found a bunch which are really amazing. This, though, is perhaps the most fascinating one that I’ve seen in awhile.

Morality is always an interesting subject, as are animals and what they’re capable of. Morality in animals gives us a sense of where our morality came from and perhaps where we can lead it.

Highly recommended.

well this settles the question on morality = religion … one would think … but probably even this is not going to be enough for some people *sigh*

(Source: ted.com)

the-star-stuff:

The Sagan Project

Poster designs illustrating some of Carl Sagan’s quotes.

by Zorán Zeerowski

Our Night Sky seen like never before - amazing! ↘

realcleverscience:

HEART STOP BEATING

by: JEREMIAH ZAGAR

In March 2011, two visionary doctors from the Texas Heart Institute successfully replaced a dying man’s heart with a ‘continuous flow’ device, proving that life was possible without a heart beat.

Jeremiah Zagar is the Emmy-nominated director of In a Dream, Delhi House, and Coney Island, 1945.

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This is a pretty cool 3 minute film. Check it out!
And hat-tip to spleakstudios for the tip! (here) (Also, some info/photos here)

(Source: focusforwardfilms.com)

(Source: mysticpolitics)

Canada News: HIV vaccine developed in Canada approved for human studies - thestar.com ↘

Science did it - once again

Polio - Check

Rabies - Check

Influenza - Check

HIV - Almost there

technocraticus:

Previous studies have shown the vaccine triggers a strong immune response and has yet to show any adverse effects or safety risks.

rigelkentaurus: helvetebrann: thedailywhat: RIP: Christopher Hitchens, world-renowned journalist, writer, thinker, and antitheist, passed away today following a hard-fought battle with esophageal cancer. He was 62. Vanity Fair, where Hitchens served as contributing editor for nearly two decades, broke the news. “There will never be another like Christopher Hitchens,” said the magazine in a statement. “A man of ferocious intellect, who was as vibrant on the page as he was at the bar.” His final piece for Vanity Fair, “Trial of the Will,” was published just last week. He is survived by his wife, Carol Blue, and their three children. [vanityfair.] The world will miss you Hitchens. You will be missed!

rigelkentaurus:

helvetebrann:

thedailywhat:

RIP: Christopher Hitchens, world-renowned journalist, writer, thinker, and antitheist, passed away today following a hard-fought battle with esophageal cancer.

He was 62.

Vanity Fair, where Hitchens served as contributing editor for nearly two decades, broke the news. “There will never be another like Christopher Hitchens,” said the magazine in a statement. “A man of ferocious intellect, who was as vibrant on the page as he was at the bar.”

His final piece for Vanity Fair, “Trial of the Will,” was published just last week.

He is survived by his wife, Carol Blue, and their three children.

[vanityfair.]

The world will miss you Hitchens.

You will be missed!

The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog (HEC) The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog (HEC) is an online database for scientists, educators, and the general public focused on habitable exoplanets discoveries. The catalog uses various habitability indices and classifications to identify, rank, and compare exoplanets, including their potential satellites, or exomoons.

The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog (HEC)

The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog (HEC) is an online database for scientists, educators, and the general public focused on habitable exoplanets discoveries. The catalog uses various habitability indices and classifications to identify, rank, and compare exoplanets, including their potential satellites, or exomoons.

Kepler-22b — Comfortably Circling within the HabitableZone This diagram compares our own solar system to Kepler-22, a star system containing the first “habitable zone” planet discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission. The habitable zone is the sweet spot around a star where temperatures are right for water to exist in its liquid form. Liquid water is essential for life on Earth.Kepler-22’s star is a bit smaller than our sun, so its habitable zone is slightly closer in. The diagram shows an artist’s rendering of the planet comfortably orbiting within the habitable zone, similar to where Earth circles the sun. Kepler-22b has a yearly orbit of 289 days. The planet is the smallest known to orbit in the middle of the habitable zone of a sun-like star. It’s about 2.4 times the size of Earth.Image credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech

Kepler-22b — Comfortably Circling within the HabitableZone

This diagram compares our own solar system to Kepler-22, a star system containing the first “habitable zone” planet discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission. The habitable zone is the sweet spot around a star where temperatures are right for water to exist in its liquid form. Liquid water is essential for life on Earth.

Kepler-22’s star is a bit smaller than our sun, so its habitable zone is slightly closer in. The diagram shows an artist’s rendering of the planet comfortably orbiting within the habitable zone, similar to where Earth circles the sun. Kepler-22b has a yearly orbit of 289 days. The planet is the smallest known to orbit in the middle of the habitable zone of a sun-like star. It’s about 2.4 times the size of Earth.

Image credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech

realcleverscience: So much love and respect for this man!

realcleverscience:

So much love and respect for this man!

(Source: crookedindifference)

“Onward to the Edge” is the 12th installment in the Symphony of Science series

Justin Hall-Tipping: Freeing energy from the grid

Cheap, virtually unlimited clean energy

Jay Bradner: Open-source cancer research

(Source: joey-dean)

Life in a Day is now available to stream for free on YouTube ↘

drewkman:

Watch this incredible film. You will not regret it.

Thanks to drewkman for sharing this… it’s amazing but sad at the same time somehow… we are still living in the iron age and movies like these always are like a wake up call … to see other peoples reality is fascinating and frightening at the same time

(Source: starboundstardust)