WISE's image of the Andromeda Galaxy. Wow. (Click for larger image.)
I love it so much it’s now the background on both my Twitter page and my phone.
Even more exciting for me – I know some of the people who worked on WISE. I can look at its beautiful images and take pride that people I know were responsible for them.
Okay, I know I just wrote that I was going to resist the urge to post photos and videos to wuss out on my commitment to post something here on a regular basis, but since I neglected to post this video when it was first released last month, I realized that I HAD to post it today.
The opening strains bring to mind a nice Barry White groove, which is strengthened by the first voice heard – deep, gravely (yet English accented) tones:
With every century
Our eyes on the universe have been opened anew
We are witness
To the very brink of time and space
For all you geek boys who are interested in a geek girl (especially one into all things space related), but have no idea how to make the first move, I strongly recommend that you play this video for her. Aw, yeah. I can imagine lots of little baby astronomers being conceived to this:
Both groups exhibited increases in penile circumference to the heterosexual and female homosexual videos. Only the homophobic men showed an increase in penile erection to male homosexual stimuli. The groups did not differ in aggression. Homophobia is apparently associated with homosexual arousal that the homophobic individual is either unaware of or denies.
Well, now we’s got science to back up our previous suppositions.
Problem is, many of the folks who could benefit from this knowledge generally deny that science has any validity, so I don’t know that letting a homophobe know that well, maybe there’s some serious denial going on is going to do any good.
