Scientists in Oregon say they’ve reached the long-sought goal of cloning monkey embryos. (Associated Press)
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Above is the work of Brett Cook-Dizney’s Dolly: Lamb of God- shot in February 1998 on East Houston Street, NYC.
Science Education
Scientists Claim to Clone Monkey Embryos
PBS NOVA Exposes "Intelligent Design" as Creationism in Disguise
PBS’s Nova methodically and dramatically exposes the “creationist” plot to introduce intelligent design into school curricula.
Proponents of “intelligent design” contend that aspects of life, from the beauty of a nautilus shell to the clotting mechanism of red blood cells, are too complex to have simply evolved through random mutation and natural selection. HOWARD LIPIN, Union-Tribune
Dot Earth – Nine Billion People. One Planet – NY Times Blog
Dot Earth – Climate Change & Sustainability – The melting Arctic icecap, as seen from a NASA satellite in September 2007. (AFP/Getty Images)Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity — in all this vastness — there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. — Carl Sagan, “Pale Blue Dot” speech, 1996
Sustainable Flatbush features NY Science Barge
© Anne Pope (Sustainable Flatbush)
Check out the Brooklyn blog about:
Sustainable Flatbush [which] provides a neighborhood-based forum to discuss, promote and implement sustainability concepts in Brooklyn and beyond. This blog is maintained and moderated by Anne Pope. She promises to keep real estate and politics out of the discussion. (Well, maybe a little politics.)
Red Maples Golf Course – near South Canaan, PA
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Did you know that the core of golf balls are made with gutta percha, the same material used to fill root canals (endodontic therapy)? Red maples are not as exotic. They should not be confused with sugar maples which produce the fabulous pancake syrup. Aren’t trees great? You can ruin your teeth and then rebuild them with tree sap!
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Bad Dreams Are Good in the Great Plan
© NY Times/Art by Jonathon Rosen
Ask people to recall how many nightmares they had in the last year, said one dream researcher, and they might say one or two. Ask them to keep a dream diary, and they will report nightmares once or twice a month. By NATALIE ANGIER
Published: October 23, 2007
Bad Dreams Are Good
by Joni Mitchell
As published in the New Yorker
September 17, 2007
The cats are in the flower beds
A red hawk rides the sky
I guess I should be happy
Just to be alive
But
We have poisoned everything
And oblivious to it all
The cell-phone zombies babble
Through the shopping malls
While condors fall from Indian skies
Whales beach and die in sand
Bad Dreams are good
In the Great Plan
And you cannot be trusted
Do you even know you are lying?
It’s dangerous to kid yourself
You go deaf, dumb, and blind
You take with such entitlement
You give bad attitude
You have No grace
No empathy
No gratitude
You have no sense of consequence
Oh, my head is in my hands
Bad Dreams are good
In the Great Plan
Before that altering apple
We were one with everything
No sense of self and other
No self-consciousness
But now we have to grapple
With this man-made world backfiring
Keeping one eye on our brother’s deadly selfishness
Everyone’s a victim here
Nobody’s hands are clean
There’s so very little left of wild Eden Earth
So near the jaws of our machines
We live in these electric scabs
These lesions once were lakes
We don’t know how to shoulder blame
Or learn from past mistakes
So who will come to save the day?
Mighty Mouse. . . ? Superman. . . ?
Bad Dreams are good
In the Great Plan
In the dark
A shining ray
I heard a three-year-old boy say
Bad Dreams are good
In the Great Plan
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