Space Magazine

Thought this was neat looking :) Not much else to say. Just neat.

[Edit: Okay I lied. I'm adding quotes.]

``It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order---and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.''
---Douglas Hofstadter

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

---George Leonard

``The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.''
---Eden Phillpots

``Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.''
---Henry Miller

``Big whorls have little whorls,
Which feed on their velocity;
And little whorls have lesser whorls,
And so on to viscosity.''
---L. F. Richardson

``To see a World in a grain of Sand,
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And Eternity in an hour.''
---William Blake

National Women's History Month

Ok, so some of you guys know what I study in school and it won't be a surprise that I support National Women's History Month, a project sponsored by the National Women's History project.

In the spirit of non-political correctness, some of y'all are probably thinking "well, what about white male history month, har har har."

Newsflash, guys, that's the only thing that's been taught in school, since oh, the beginning of public education system in America. It's only in the last twenty years that women's history has even been considered a "valid field." It's only in the last 20-25 years that women have been included in American history books regarding their contributions to this nation.

Newsflash! My grandmother, who is still living, was born before women had the right to vote in America. In fact, all of my grandparents were. There have only been 2-3 generations American women that have been able to vote. It's only been within the last 80-120 years that women in this country have had the right to divorce, to retain property on their own, have custody of their own children.

Prior to this period, women had the same legal rights as children, which weren't very many. Despite this, they campaigned for child labor reforms, temperance laws, prison reform laws, property rights, etc. They had no legal recourse but they still fought for changes. Declaration of Sentiments

Newsflash! The only women that were mentioned in American history books were married to rich and powerful white men! Abigail Adams, Eleanor Roosevelt. Nice chicks, but what about some women that mattered just because of what they did?

So I celebrate the lives of these American women. I celebrate their lives because they are the reason I have a say in this country. They are the reason I am able to seek higher education and am eligible for the same grants, fellowships, and scholarships that men are. They are the reason I am not accused of renouncing my womanhood just because I seek knowlege, that I will not be denied tenure in a university simply because I am a woman, that I can serve on a jury or buy property on the beach, that I will never be owned by my husband.

They may not have died on a battlefield, but that does not mean they did not give their lives for the sake of their daughters.

Susan B. Anthony Center of Women's Leadership

National Museum of Women's History

"Votes for Women:" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920

Alabama Women's Hall of Fame

NAWSA Collection at the Library of Congress

National Women's History Month

Ok, so some of you guys know what I study in school and it won't be a surprise that I support National Women's History Month, a project sponsored by the National Women's History project.

In the spirit of non-political correctness, some of y'all are probably thinking "well, what about white male history month, har har har."

Newsflash, guys, that's the only thing that's been taught in school, since oh, the beginning of public education system in America. It's only in the last twenty years that women's history has even been considered a "valid field." It's only in the last 20-25 years that women have been included in American history books regarding their contributions to this nation.

Newsflash! My grandmother, who is still living, was born before women had the right to vote in America. In fact, all of my grandparents were. There have only been 2-3 generations American women that have been able to vote. It's only been within the last 80-120 years that women in this country have had the right to divorce, to retain property on their own, have custody of their own children.

Prior to this period, women had the same legal rights as children, which weren't very many. Despite this, they campaigned for child labor reforms, temperance laws, prison reform laws, property rights, etc. They had no legal recourse but they still fought for changes. Declaration of Sentiments

Newsflash! The only women that were mentioned in American history books were married to rich and powerful white men! Abigail Adams, Eleanor Roosevelt. Nice chicks, but what about some women that mattered just because of what they did?

So I celebrate the lives of these American women. I celebrate their lives because they are the reason I have a say in this country. They are the reason I am able to seek higher education and am eligible for the same grants, fellowships, and scholarships that men are. They are the reason I am not accused of renouncing my womanhood just because I seek knowlege, that I will not be denied tenure in a university simply because I am a woman, that I can serve on a jury or buy property on the beach, that I will never be owned by my husband.

They may not have died on a battlefield, but that does not mean they did not give their lives for the sake of their daughters.

Susan B. Anthony Center of Women's Leadership

National Museum of Women's History

"Votes for Women:" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920

Alabama Women's Hall of Fame

NAWSA Collection at the Library of Congress

First Amendment

Just for the record. This is the first amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Only 1 in 4 Americans Know the First Amendment
Only one in four Americans can name more than one of the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment (freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly and petition for redress of grievances.) <.....> It also showed that people misidentified First Amendment rights. About one in five people thought the right to own a pet was protected, and 38 percent said they believed the right against self-incrimination contained in the Fifth Amendment was a First Amendment right, the survey found.

Interesting Links:

McCormick Tribune-Freedom Museum

First Amendment Center