Posts tagged: News
Free Astronomy Lectures Online
The Astronomy Society of the Pacific has made many of the talks from their annual Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures available for free on their website in the form of The Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures Podcasts. There are lectures from the likes of David Grinspoon, Alex Filippenko, and Frank Drake.
There are videos of some of the lectures available for you iTunes users. Not sure why you need iTunes to watch free videos. Embrace the torrent.
Via: Bad Astronomy
Upside-down Church Causes Stir
A sculpture by American artist Dennis Oppenheim titled Device to Root Out Evil has been causing a bit of a stir in its current home in the Harbour Green Park on Cordova Street, Vancouver. It was placed there as part of the 2005 Vancouver Biennale sculpture festival.
… residents said it simply offended their Christian beliefs to see a church turned upside-down.
I’ll say it again. If you’re offended, look away. Leave it for others who have the intellect to look it over and respect the art for what it is. Personally, I think it’s a pretty neat sculpture and I wouldn’t mind having a miniature version in my yard. I wonder how it’s mounted.
Via: The Province
Human-Aided Search Dies
ChaCha, a human-guided search engine closed its doors on the human end today in favor of their newer mobile search product.
Judging from the image to the right (snagged from TechCrunch), they made a good decision, though not near soon enough.
Apparently this company hasn’t been doing so well in the eyes of the great anonymous internets. In all honesty, I just wanted to post that image.
Via: TechCrunch.
