solstice
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Lights Out London
In honor of the Summer solstice (and Gaia herself) we Londoners are being encouraged to shut off our lights for an hour at 9pm tonight. Even Picadilly Circus will be dark, for the first time since World War II. Even if it’s just a PR campaign, take advantage: go outside and look at the stars.
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Hijacked for Spam
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Apologies if you have one of the, um, tens of thousands (or more?) of email addresses that have been spammed by some damned robot pretending to be me (in the guise of coming from the address on the upper right of this page). Not much I can do about it except hope that I’m not…
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More light, more science, no subways
Yesterday was the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. So it all gets better from now on (Seasonal Affective Disorder seems to me a perfectly reasonable response to the darkness). But what else? A Republican-appointed member of the federal judiciary has slammed the Intelligent Design crackpots, seeing them for the crypto-creationists they can…
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