Thoughts

Religious Ragings: Why Did God Create Atheists? 

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For one month, Chang lived in Vegas. Visitors could stop by, enter a booth, write whatever thoughts they wanted to share, and drop the confession into a box that mixed anonymously with other slips. Chang then took the anonymous slips and displayed them on the walls, painting selected responses in white against a larger red canvas background. According to Chang’s website, “This project seeks to create a cathartic sanctuary for this temporary community and help us see we are not alone in our quirks, experiences and struggles as we try to lead fulfilling lives.”

Hall of Bookcase

The only truly aquatic spider, the diving bell spider (Argyroneta aquatica) lives its whole life underwater - mating, laying eggs, and catching prey in a submerged web woven into vegetation beneath the surface. The secret to this lifestyle is in the filling of the web with air bubbles from the surface, collected using fine hairs on the abdomen. Acting in a similar manner to a gill, these bubbles are impressively long-lasting, extracting dissolved oxygen from the water as levels become depleted and releasing accumulated carbon dioxide. As a result, the spider need only come to the surface a remarkable single time per day to maintain its underwater lifestyle. Ref: BBC (2011) Diving bell spiders use bubble webs ‘like gills’. [link]

Mark Gatiss telling us about the plans for the third series of Sherlock…

Doctor Who: “The First Question” 50th Anniversary Trailer - [x]