Archive for August, 2010
Brazil air force to record UFO sightings
• August, 2010Brazil’s government has ordered its air force to officially record any sighting of unidentified flying objects. A government decree said all military and civilian pilots as well as air traffic controllers should register any UFO sightings with the national aerospace defence command. The information will be stored in the national archives in Rio de Janeiro. It will be made available to researchers, including those seeking evidence of extraterrestrial life. Anything unusual that is seen, photographed or video filmed in Brazil’s air space will now have…
“Richard Dawkins” on our bizarre universe
• August, 2010Queerer Than We Suppose: The Strangeness Of Science Richard Dawkins is Oxford University’s “Professor for the Public Understanding of Science.” Author of the landmark 1976 book, The Selfish Gene, he’s a brilliant (and trenchant) evangelist for Darwin’s ideas. In this talk, titled, “Queerer Than We Suppose: The strangeness of science,” he suggests that the true nature of the universe eludes us, because the human mind evolved only to understand the “middle-sized” world we can observe. (Recorded July 2005 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 22:42) – More…
BIG BANG BIG BOOM – by BLU
• August, 2010BIG BANG BIG BOOM – the new wall-painted animation by BLU .::. <<video>> BIG BANG BIG BOOM – the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo. <<Editors notE>> Great stuff as always, keep an eye on “blu” and this post. In the near future we’ll give a special on this artist in particular and watch some more of his projects.
Spain’s spectacular solar power plants =pictures=
• August, 2010Spain’s spectacular solar power plants channelling the blazing Seville sun Mention solar power and people imagine weedy photovoltaic panels blighting the roofs of eco-friendly households and generating barely enough electricity to run a toaster. But the future of solar power could well be a lot more spectacular. There are actually two solar power plants in the picture above, spread around two towers. The larger array on the left, called PS20 by its Spanish owners Solucar, is still under construction; the smaller one on the right,…