A hundred million years from now, when we're all dead and gone, a team of geologists will be digging in a field somewhere ...and they will discover, buried in the rocks below, a thin layer of sediment — very thin, about the width of a cigarette paper, says British stratigrapher Jan Zalasiewicz. That skinny strip, when … Continue reading Is Planet Earth Under New Management? : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR
Day: February 28, 2014
They’re Made out of Meat
amanimal clued me in to this sci-fi short story by Terry Bisson, 'They're Made out of Meat', which originally appeared in Omni magazine in 1990, and which is brilliant! A number of video treatments have also been made of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaFZTAOb7IE
America’s first settlers were trapped in Beringia for 10,000 years
The ancestors of Native Americans came to the New World by walking over a land bridge across the Bering Strait. But there's a rather glaring 10,000 year gap in the story — one that could be explained by a migratory pause that lasted for millennia. via America's first settlers were trapped in Beringia for 10,000 years. … Continue reading America’s first settlers were trapped in Beringia for 10,000 years
The Ken Ham Creation Museum Ark Encounter project may have been funded
There is news out this morning that the silly Ark Encounter project may have gotten funded, although Sharon Hill is skeptical that this is true. If it is true, and if municipal bonds really are helping to fund this thing, then the residents of Louisville, Kentucky should be alarmed by what their local government is doing, … Continue reading The Ken Ham Creation Museum Ark Encounter project may have been funded
