The shuttle astronauts upgraded the Hubble space telescope recently, and their work has really paid some immediate dividends. NASA has released a series of very cool photos from the Hubble telescope, which can be found on NASA’s website. The new imaging camera on the Hubble telescope is more sensitive to visible light and also allows [...]
Archive for September 10th, 2009
Cool Stuff From Hubble
Posted in Science, tagged Carl Sagan, Hubble space telescope, NASA, Science on September 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Can It Get Any Worse ?
Posted in Politics on September 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Well I keep thinking that politics can’t get any worse and to my surprise it keeps getting worse ! In the old days at least our politicians could control their emotions and wait until after the president spoke to unleash their thoughts and feelings, but not last night. Joe Wilson, Congressman from South Carolina went to far, was disrespectful and called the [...]
Thoughts On The President’s Speech
Posted in America, Healthcare Reform, Politics, tagged America, Congress, Health Care Reform, Healthcare Reform, Medicare, Politics, President Obama on September 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Kish and I watched the President’s speech on health care to the joint session of Congress last night, and I came away with mixed feelings. As I listened to the first few sentences of the speech, about economic issues, I wondered why the President was speaking about health care at all. His speech was given [...]
Out Of Africa, Much Earlier Than Expected
Posted in Science, tagged Africa, Archaeology, evolution, Georgia, Science on September 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This article reports on recent archaeological findings that raise interesting questions about accepted theories of human evolution and, in particular, about when human ancestors first moved out of Africa. Paleontologists have discovery ancient human remains — dating back some 1.8 million years — in modern Georgia, near the Caucuses. The remains are significantly smaller in [...]
