by James Heflin | Oct 11, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Some neurosurgeon art fans say Michelangelo’s image of God in the Sistine Chapel is actually a diagram of the human brain. Can’t say why, exactly, but I think that’s a higher order of cool. If you will. Here’s the image–what do you think?...
by James Heflin | Oct 13, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
A birdwatcher in Ontario has claimed he saw a unicorn. I’m not sure what’s better–the video, or this, from the story (which is either itself a hoax or is very well-written by someone with tongue in cheek): In the meantime, the Science Centre is...
by James Heflin | Oct 18, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Hobbit fans unite: a possible real-life source for Lord of the Rings? I always feel bad for people who didn’t read Tolkien at the right age. Read it too early, it’s too complicated. Read it too late, it’s so full of dwarves and wizards and...
by James Heflin | Oct 21, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Just as Edward Gorey isn’t what he appears to be–an Edwardian Brit–Colonel John Blashford-Snell is a man in the wrong time. In a story from the last few days, the UK’s Telegraph examines Blashford-Snell’s tale of exploration and...
by James Heflin | Oct 27, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
New Scientist elaborates on the notion of a far more complex vision of evolution. Fascinating stuff: IN 1856, geologist Charles Lyell wrote to Charles Darwin with a question about fossils. Puzzled by types of mollusc that abruptly disappeared from the British fossil...