“Well,” Ellie offered, “I guess an entomologist would say it’s to understand the ants and ant society. Scientists take pleasure in understanding.”
“That is another way of saying that they love the ants.”
She suppressed a small shudder.
Keiser Report - Interview with Dr. Michael Hudson of University of Missouri, Kansas City
FMD — America’s strategy to deal with debt »
“Minor symptoms, often increasing in frequency and severity, can provide warning of a life threatening problem in a key organ, such as the heart. Since 2007, the global financial markets have been providing warnings of an impending serious crisis. Private sector credit problems have spread to sovereign nations. Debt problems of smaller nations have flowed on to larger nations. The problems are gradually working their way to the issue of US debt. Without rapid and decisive action, which seems to be unlikely, a major organ failure within the global economy is now inevitable.
The magnitude of the problem and its effects are so large, market participants would do well to heed Douglas Adams famous advice in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Find dark glasses that go black in the case of a crisis and a towel to suck on.”
Guru & DJ Premier — Above The Clouds
This beat is a masterpiece of transcendental proportions. R.I.P. Guru.
“…Through the storms of days after / and to the Earth from the Sun through triple darkness to blast you / with a force that can’t be compared / to any fire power / for it’s mind power, shared / the brainwave / causes vessels to circulate / like constellations reflecting at night off the lake / word to the father and Mother Earth / seeking everlasting life, through this hell, for what it’s worth / look, listen, and observe; and watch another sea-cycle pullin’ my peeps to the curb / heed the words: it’s like ghetto style proverbs—the righteous man sacrificed to get what they deserve / cannot afford to be confined to a cell; brainwaves swell, turning a desert to a well…”
The Haunting Beauty of NGC 3190 —A Deadly Supernova Factory
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This magnificent galaxy inspires us, again, to ask: does advanced life exist there? The fact that we have no proof of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe may simply mean that intelligent civilizations have all too finite lifetimes. NGC 3190 is a spiral galaxy of unbearable beauty in the constellation Leo. It was discovered by William Herschel in 1784. In 2002, astronomers uncovered one supernova in March in the southeastern part and then another team uncovered a second supernova on the other side two months later -sure destroyers of vicinity-based life.
The spectacular image below is the “Trio in Leo.” There is actually a fourth member of this group which not shown- but the group also goes by another catalogued name of “Hickson 44.” These galaxies are estimated to be 60 million light years away. The galaxy furthest to the left is an elliptical galaxy (NGC 3193) and is fairly devoid of detail. The top center of the image features NGC 3190.
(via dailygalaxy)
