To continue with a posting trend we started a couple days ago, I wanted to recommend a terrific book called Powers of Ten: About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe, by Philip Morrison and Phylis Morrison, originally published in 1982 by scientific American Library. [It appears that new…
How do people who believe the Bible to be inerrant reconcile the Old Testmament version of God with the New Testament's version? They don't often try. Rather, they cherry pick. They tell the Noah story by focusing on God's "saving" of Noah's family, rather than firmly acknowledging God's decision to commit cold senseless genocide…
Ok, here's another site that shows what tiny (yet interesting) specks of almost-nothing we humans are. But it does such a good job of it! Check it out.Â
(In re Erich’s Snowflake Architecture) I have always been impressed by the history of snowflake photography, and all the forms of micro-, mega-, high-speed, etc. non-human-scale pictures.
But I often find many look-worthy things on human scale just walking around the neighborhood. Just walking and seeing the world around me. In this case, also listening to the tinkling and glinting chandeliers of iced trees in the breeze. Here are some digital snaps I took on a walk around the block the day after our November ice storm:…
My city (St. Louis) is still covered with traffic-clogging snow needing to be hefted from sidewalks. I was glad that I happened onto these photos to remind me what is really going on out there. As in the previous post about the Hubble photos, the human eye gets such a…