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    Parrots, the Universe and Everything

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    Jack
    , 13th May 2012 at 09:09 PM (Jack's)


    Douglas Adams was the best-selling British author and satirist who created The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In this talk at UCSB recorded shortly before his death, Adams shares hilarious accounts of some of the apparently absurd lifestyles of the world's creatures, and gleans from them extraordinary perceptions about the future of humanity.
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    The wonders of nature

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    Jack
    , 7th January 2012 at 07:30 PM (Jack's)
    Maybe theists do see the hand of god when they look at the world around them, but I see the wonder of nature and its beauty isn't diminished by knowing the science behind it all.

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    "...a pileus iridescent cloud, a group of water droplets that have a uniformly similar size and so together diffract different colors of sunlight by different amounts.

    From http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110824.html
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