This is the archive of tumbledry happenings that occurred on 17 January, 2008.

Now this is how to shoot a portrait: diffuse light and some good cropping when the photo was taken… instead of cropping after!

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A great talk by Richard Dawkins in July 2005, The universe is queerer than we can suppose. A quick summary:

Biologist Richard Dawkins makes a case for “thinking the improbable” by looking at how our human frame of reference — the things we can perceive with our five senses, and understand with our eight-pound brain — limits our understanding of the universe. Think of it: We can’t see atoms, we can’t see infrared light, we can’t hear ultrasonic frequencies, but we know without a doubt that they exist. What else is out there that we can’t yet perceive — what dimensions of space, what aspects of time, what forms of life?

I appreciate that Dawkins doesn’t break out his intense atheistic views in this talk, as I don’t think they fall within the scope of what he’s saying here. Besides, I’ve “always taken issue” with the title of Dawkin’s book “The God Delusion”. All that said, this is the best talk I’ve heard in quite some time.

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