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Steven Weinberg gives a decent summary of the last sixty years of cosmology and particle physics, and what we still don't know. (via)

The current oldest known face. (via)

[livejournal.com profile] janni has released an ebook of Tiernay West, Professional Adventurer (formerly known as Secret of the Three Treasures).

---L.

Subject quote from "Mont Blanc," P.B. Shelley.

Date: 28 October 2013 05:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com
At the risk of suggesting that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, that picture reminded me of this rather amazing picture of a human face developing in the womb (http://youtu.be/wFY_KPFS3LA).

Date: 30 October 2013 03:51 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
"Radiation is said to have a certain temperature if its energy per volume at each wavelength is the same as for the radiation in a cave whose walls are kept at that temperature."

Am I misunderstanding or do scientists literally calibrate their measures of radiation's temperature based on "a cave"? Is the cave at least standardized? (Is this a mog-ur thing?) --Matt

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