This is magnificent.
As Christian Ready wrote:
If you can get Littlefinger to support your space program, you’re doing something right.
Also see Why Watch ESA Rosetta’s Movie ‘Ambition’? Because We Want to Know What is Possible. The article ranges from the Classics to the changing roles of America and Europe in space.
It calms you down but drains you of energy
From Andrew Mills, who related it to the Stoic concept of negative visualization.
From Floraidh
Irish Class, October 20, 2014
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Found on a shelf in my garage:
Picture behind cut
Irish Class, October 13, 2014
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Two sentences (in English!) in each category:
Peter Coles (who is himself gay) looked at the story Gay men and heterosexual women have similarly shaped brains, research shows, going back to the actual research paper.
In Cerebral Asymmetry: is it all in the Mind? he argues that the statistics behind the conclusion are suspect:
The article originally identified the bomber as a Sukhoi T-4, an aircraft that did not fly until 1972. The mistake was obvious to me from the picture, which has not (as of today) been replaced. That is not a bomber from the early 1950’s. The bomb was dropped from a Tupolev Tu-4, the Soviet copy of of the U.S. B-29 bomber, which was used in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Also see
Irish Class, October 6, 2014
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From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 