Utku ile Armi aşkına engel çıkarılıyor

Now, all teachers make mistakes.  Don't get me wrong.  We're just as fallible as everyone else.

On a message board when discussing different activities for teaching evolution, someone replied with the following:

From what I understand, evolution theories boils down to carbon dating and genetic profiling. There are plenty of videos on this. Record History channel's "Evolve" for a start and the hosts start linking the past and present. Everyone knows about how the Big Bang theory is currently winning the theory war from the expand and contract theory. Talk about the spectrometers and how the far away galaxies are flying away exponentially.
But of course, you kinda have to talk that these are all just theories as opposed to laws as while some parts of the hypothesis are proven time and time again, there are other parts that cannot be tested at the moment.

    These things are just too fantastic. Have to post one every month or two.

 Here's the link.

Fresh from being the LabourHome poll of being the most competent cabinet member with a hardly blistering 6.18 out of 10, Alan Johnson is reported in The Times as stepping aside the battle to succeed Gordon Brown in favour of David Miliband.

(The high point of 6.18 out of 10 does bring Wendy Alexander, the ex-leader of the Scottish Labour MSPs, back to mind with her self-marked 10 out of 10.

If the best regarded Labour politician can score - from their own supporters, mind! - a lowly 6.18; well - is Alan Johnston less than two-thirds the politician Wendy Alexander is?

And the rest of the cabinet not fit to lace her boots?

Or is Wendy Alexander just self-deluded?)

Of course, Alan Johnston has never made a secret of the fact that he doesn't want the top job:

Currently listening: Sirens by Fei Comodo.

Don't worry, I'm not leaving here.

It's time to go back up to Newcastle, for my third and final year of University. It's scary, but I'm a lot less worried about it this year.

Basically, the past two years I've found stressful, and incredibly tough - not just the workload, but financially, making friends, and in terms of having a good time. But somehow I feel like I've matured more over these three months. The workload this year will be more manageable because I'll MAKE it more manageable - I'm going to make my lecture and revision notes from day one, do assignments from the time they're set and space the workload out. This should mean that by the time it gets close to the exam periods at the end of semesters one and two, I'll already have most / all my revision notes done, and can then focus on actually learning the stuff.

God Lord Almighty: The Corpus Clock, designed by Professor Stephen Hawking and Dr. John C. Taylor, is meant to remind us that time eats everything, it always wins. The U. of Cambridge video, below, details the occult-styled clock, which features a gargoyle eating up the seconds on a monstrous, metal flywheel.

Note: The T.V. character Homer Simpson once greeted Hawking, in a guest appearance by the world's most famous physicist, as "that wheelchair guy."

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Here is something you don't see every day. Two Shuttles are now sitting locked and loaded for the upcoming Hubble repair mission. Think of all of the contained energy waiting to spring out.

All this week the VIIIth Polish Philosophical Congress has been taking place here in Warsaw. These Congresses are meant to be the absolute pinnacle of Polish Philosophy. Thus far, they have tended to occur much less often than the Olympic Games, as can be realised when I add that the first Congress took place in 1923. The talk that I submitted for this Congress was a much-altered Polish-language version of the "Superstition as Science" talk I gave in Trondheim in January.  As one of the organisers stated, the aim of the congress was to give an opportunity for some of the younger Polish philosophers to listen to talks by some of their foremost older colleagues.

You know what it is like. You have these plans to smash particles up to the speed of light. Then a quench comes around and stops you. Rather like my mother's train set enthuisastic friend who took the track away after hours of painstakingly putting it together because I caused two trains to crash.

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A quench for the LHC was a magnet failure, (where they overheated and helium leaked out). So far the particles have only gone around the underground system. They have not yet had the staisfaction, as i had with my train set, of seeing them hit head on.

September 19, 2008 by Sam Sloan || Category: Science News Those unneccesarily worried about the world’s end next week when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was scheduled to begin smashing its first particles will be delighted to know that the test has been postponed after a significant fault was detected on Friday. A technician found that one of the accelerator’s superconducting magnets was out-of-sync during routine testing.

Next Week’s Particle Collision Test Delayed : Slice of SciFi.