Today is Star Wars Day, for obvious reasons. [1] Here are a couple of Star Wars related photos that have tickled me over the past year or so. For me, Imperial Stormtroopers are a constant source of fun! I love nerd humour! Yoda is also good for a few laughs. We’ve all seen Star Wars [...]
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May the Fourth… Be With You!
Posted in Astronomy, Blogging, Community, Cooking, Entertainment, Fashion, Film, Food, Fun, Horror, Humour, Life, Lifestyle, Modern Culture, Musings, My Life, People, Personal Observations, Psychology, Research, Science, Science Fiction, Silly, Space, Style, Thoughts, tagged Astronomy, cooking, Entertainment, Fashion, Film, Food, Fun, Horror, Humor, Musings, Research, science, Science Fiction, Style, Thoughts on May 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Star Wars Invades Famous Works of Art....and The Office
Posted in Art & Literature, Culture, Entertainment, Film, Fun, Lifestyle, Modern Culture, Movies, Musings, Parody, Science Fiction, Silly, Space, Style, Thoughts, tagged art, Entertainment, Film, Humor, Modern Culture, movies, Musings, Science Fiction, Space, Style, Thoughts on May 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Reblogged from Geektroverted: Star Wars characters invade these famous works of art and a bonus picture of The Office reimagining the painting “A Sunday Afternoon”. On the eve of Star Wars Day (May the Fourth Be With You), fun by Geektroverted!
Where Is The Center of the Universe?
Posted in Astronomy, Education, Environment, Future, Musings, Nature, Research, Science, Space, Thoughts, tagged Astronomy, Education, Environment, Musings, Nature, Research, science, Space, Thoughts on April 25, 2012 | 1 Comment »
In the beginning, the universe was a single point. But where was that point exactly? What was its location? As explained in an article in the FYI section of PopSci.com, it was, and still is… everywhere. In other words, no matter where you are in the universe, you’re at the centre! [1] It’s answers like [...]
Hubble’s Greatest Snapshots!
Posted in Astronomy, Culture, Education, Future, Inspiration, Life, Modern Culture, Musings, Nature, Photography, Research, Science, Space, Thoughts, tagged Astronomy, Culture, Education, Future, Life, Modern Culture, Musings, Nature, Photography, Research, science, Space, Thoughts on April 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
On April 24, 1990, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope was launched into space. In the 22 years since, it has sent back over a million observations. Here are just some of Hubble’s greatest images, year by year, courtesy of those wonderful space geeks at HubbleCast. ___________________________________________________________ Articles about ASTRONOMY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=astronomy (Speaking of milestones, my friendly neighbourhood blog [...]
Dust Devils on Mars!
Posted in Astronomy, Education, Environment, Future, Life, Musings, Nature, Research, Science, Space, Thoughts, tagged Astronomy, Education, Environment, Future, Life, Musings, Nature, Research Science, Space, Thoughts on April 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Dust devils occur on Earth as well as on Mars. They are spinning columns of air, made visible by the dust they pull off the ground. Unlike a tornado, a dust devil typically forms on a clear day when the ground is heated by the sun, warming the air just above the ground. As heated [...]
Returning April 16th!
Posted in Cooking, Culture, Entertainment, Fashion, Food, Inspiration, Israel, Japan - Japanese, Jews/Judaism, Kosher, Life, Lifestyle, Modern Culture, Musings, People, Recipes, Research, Science, Space, Style, Thoughts, Vampyres, Zombies, Zoology, tagged cooking, Culture, Fashion, Food, Israel, Jewish, Jews, Judaism, Life, Modern Culture, Opinion, Research, Style, Thoughts, Vampires, Vampyres, zombies on April 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Kosher Samurai continues to be away for Passover. Look for this award-anticipating blog to return this coming Monday April 16th!
The Most Astounding Fact (Neil DeGrasse Tyson)
Posted in Astronomy, Culture, Environment, Inspiration, Life, Modern Culture, Musings, Nature, Opinion, People, Research, Science, Space, Thoughts, tagged Astronomy, Culture, Environment, Inspiration, Life, Modern Culture, Opinion, People, Research, science, Space, Thoughts on April 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was asked by a reader of TIME magazine, “What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?” This is his answer. Truly inspiring. __________________________________________________________ Today, Friday April 6, at sundown is the beginning of Passover. It is by far my favourite holiday. I will be [...]
Neil deGrasse Tyson (and why I love him!)
Posted in Astronomy, Culture, Education, Fashion, Future, Inspiration, Life, Lifestyle, Modern Culture, Musings, My Life, Nature, Opinion, People, Personal Observations, Research, Science, Space, Style, Thoughts, tagged Astronomy, Culture, Education, Fashion, Future, Inspiration, Life, Lifestyle, Modern Culture, Musings, Nature, Opinion, science, Space, Style, Thoughts on February 29, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson [1] is America’s nattiest nerd, its chicest geek! He’s a sharp-looking scientist. A trendy twerp. He looks great. He is handsome and well-spoken, funny, witty and charming. And he’s smart. Sweet Lord in heaven, is he ever smart! (America’s most dapper dweeb!) He’s the kind of smart that takes very complicated super-brainy [...]
Ring Around the Moon
Posted in Astronomy, Education, Environment, Inspiration, Jews/Judaism, Kids, Life, Lifestyle, Musings, My Life, Nature, Opinion, Personal Observations, Research, Science, Space, Thoughts, tagged Astronomy, Education, Environment, Inspiration, Life, Lifestyle, Musings, My Life, Nature, Opinion, science, Space, Thoughts on February 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Earlier this month (February 7, to be exact), was the Jewish holiday of Tu B’Shevat. Like some other Jewish holidays, it occurs on a full moon. But unlike Purim (the following full moon), Passover (the next full moon after that) or Succot (either a Harvest Moon or Hunter Moon), the Tu B’Shevat full moon happens [...]
Hey, Who Ripped a Hole in the Universe??
Posted in Astronomy, Education, Environment, Fun, Life, Musings, My Life, Opinion, Research, Science, Space, Thoughts, tagged Astronomy, Education, Environment, Fun, Life, Musings, Opinion, Research, science, Space, Thoughts on February 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Take a look at this photo, will you? (A hole in the universe??) Some months ago, the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) observed a classical dark globule, Barnard 68 (B68), in front of a dense star field in the Milky Way band. Yeah, I know… it’s a big black patch in the middle of a [...]
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