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Tuesday, Jun 04, 2002

heavenly creatures

"The pursuit of that ancient heavenly connection has lately moved near center stage at NASA, which assembled some 100 astronomers, physicists, chemists, geologists and even a few biologists at the Space Telescope Science Institute on the Johns Hopkins University campus recently to talk about extraterrestrial life."

apartment hunting

Monday, Jun 03, 2002

dressed to the 10s

golden goal

"Standing-room-only crowds -- at times more than 300 people -- have been flocking to Summers about 1:30 every morning since the World Cup started Friday, 13 time zones away in Seoul. They flip-flopped their circadian rhythms, setting alarms on wristwatches and radio clocks for a punishing nocturnal schedule just to see every kick, every penalty, every header in real time."

m&ms

anybody notice an upsurge of classic micro/minicars on the streets of new york?

eros and psyche

"GEOFFREY MILLER: My goal at this point really is to take evolutionary psychology the next step, and to apply standard of evolutionary theory as much as possible to explain the whole gamut of the human mind, human emotions, human social life, human sexual behavior as much as possible. I'm especially interested in looking at areas that have been relatively ignored or overlooked in the standard evolutionary psychology so far. For example, in Steve Pinker's book How the Mind Works there's a very good discussion of vision, memory, emotions,-but some of the most interesting aspects of the human mind, such as art, music, humor and religion tend to get relatively slighted, and it's apparent that we don't have very good explanations of them yet. I'm very interested in applying sexual selection ideas to explain some of those areas, but I'm quite open to any new ideas that come along that take seriously those aspects of human nature that have not been taken seriously before."

flower power

Sunday, Jun 02, 2002

kelp on the way

Saturday, Jun 01, 2002

show me the funny

harry shearers "Le Show"

surrealist pillowtalkie

"From a previously unpublished film script by Salvador Dali, written in 1937 for the Marx Brothers. Dali, who was a fan of the comedians, had befriended Harpo Marx the year before. The film, entitled Giraffes on Horseback Salads, was never made, reportedly because MGM, which had an exclusive contract with the Marx Brothers, felt it was too surreal. The script, which Dali wrote in English, was recently discovered among Dali's papers; it is owned and was made available by the Fundaci� Gala-Salvador Dal� in Figueres, Spain. Apart from roles for the Marx Brothers, the script includes a character called the 'Surrealist woman' and a Spanish businessman named Jimmy."

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