Exam week has come, and I’m really busy. So enjoy the minimal amount of work that I’ve put into this while I read about organic chemistry.
- Best new conspiracy theory: An approaching comet is actually a Borg cube from Jesus.
- A new planet has been found in the habitable zone of a sun-like star!
- The Straw Feminist in TV and movies.
- “Being a Female Atheist on Twitter” (Warning: there are some pretty awful threats in those tweets.)
- Catholic trolls are trollin’.
- Occupy news of the week: Occupy Orlando, Tampa, Boston, New Orleans, and many others over the past week. Is Occupy Our Homes the next step in this movement?
- For the good news about Occupy: Glenn Beck was mic checked by Occupy Tallahassee.
- Above: A great parody of Rick Perry’s new campaign ad “Strong“.
Excellent links. I lost half my coffee from uncontrollable fits of laughter after reading the Jesus/Borg/Comet Elenin link.
Kepler 22b is super awesome! But I found this actual visible light photograph of an extrasolar planet, that orbits a star visible to the naked eye (Fomalhaut, southern hemesphere) to be extremely exciting too.
And I thought you might also enjoy this radio interview with Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan about the book ‘Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors’, if you find the time. It’s about an hour and a half.