Amazing Google Vid- "Quantum Physics Double Slit Experiment"

This experiment shows the really mysterious behavior of quantam particles. Electrons behaving like waves and then like marbles? Mind blowingly cool.

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Ridiculous 4D Rubix Cube-type Puzzle

Magic Cube 4D Applet -- 7 standard rubix cubes mashed into one big 4D cube. Try it!

For those of you who thought the normal rubix cube was bad try this for size. Talk about putting you in a tizzy!!!!

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500 Simple Exeriments anyone can do

Explorium, San Francisco's Museum of Science, art, and human perception has a page dedicated to 500 simple experiments anyone can do. It's all hands on! I wrote a bigger review of the site here:
http://www.sharewonders.com/2006/02/26/exploratorium/

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The Bible in Excel

I found a text file with the complete King James Version of the Bible. I wrote a few macros and dumped it all into an Excel workbook. Each book is on a separate worksheet, and each verse is in a separate cell.

It has a handy hyperlink table of contents so you can jump to any book. I also wrote some summary formulas to calculate the number of characters in each book, and the average number of characters per verse. Then I added a word count feature: Enter a word and it displays the number of occurrences in each book.

Why? I just wanted to play around with Excel and its just good to see whats possible when you put your mind to it.

If you want the spreadsheet, drop me an email and I'll arrange for you.

How Things Work - Explaining the physics of everyday life

You know when people ask really strange questions its usually the geeks among you that have some sort of answer, well hey, now you can be the clown in the party. Some great questions are on the web site so check them out and collect some useless bits of knowledge.

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Berkeley lectures as podcasts

Almost as good as actually attending Berkeley...? at least its another educational use for iPod!!!!!!

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How they named companies

Lists how many of the corporations got their names. Read on, its good fun. For example: Xerox- The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product trying to say `dry'.

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Don't lead your sheep astray!!!

Sometimes you really have to wonder how some christians think, the adoption of certain ideas and the merging of them with bibical principles just dosen't go but still they push the idea to the very end. Take the issue of "Intelligent Design", a lot has been said, both publically and privately from both sides of the discussion but the demarcation line is normally scientists on one side and theologists on the other.

Now even that is looking shaky, CNN did an article on it recently, (check out Scientists enlist clergy here) and what was shocking to note were some statements from "highly educated" theologians, statements like "We believe that the theory of evolution is a foundational scientific truth, one that has stood up to rigorous scrutiny and upon which much of human knowledge and achievement rests" and "The intelligent design movement belittles God. It makes God a designer, an engineer," said Vatican Observatory Director George Coyne, an astrophysicist who is also ordained. "The God of religious faith is a god of love. He did not design me."

Well for goodness sake, if you as a priest/pastor is willing to dismiss much of what the Bible says about God creating mankind then I'm sorry to say YOU ARE IN THE WRONG JOB!!! Stop the double standard of professing God while at the same time dismissing him, in fact, do the right thing and get out of the ministry, stop leading your flock astray.

Well enough of the sermon now but just to say we all need to practice what we preach and when someone in a position of leadership abuses that position then we should all speak out.

One Billion Mazes

This site contains one billion mazes in high-quality printable PDF format. You may view, print and solve these mazes... and yes, there are exactly one billion mazes!

Now if your really bored, for a very long time, and your imune to square eyes, then this is the website just for you, bet you can't tell me how long its going to take you to complete all of them!!!!!

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Top ten reasons Geeks make good fathers

Might pacify your wife/gf/baby-mother if she complains of being a "computer widow".

You got to read the previous day's blog as well, my sentiments exactly.

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Amazing Stone keeping guiness record, 40 skips video

Kurt Steiner is the official Guinness World Record Holder of skipping a stone in a pond. The video captures the throw from difrent angles and at slow motion.

Now this brings back childhood memories but I just can't remember skimming a stone for so long. I certainly was no record breaker.

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Mormon Scripture Disproved

Oh no! The Book of Mormon is wrong! Bedrock of a Faith Is Jolted.

From the time he was a child in Peru, the Mormon Church instilled in Jose A. Loayza the conviction that he and millions of other Native Americans were descended from a lost tribe of Israel that reached the New World more than 2,000 years ago.

"We were taught all the blessings of that Hebrew lineage belonged to us and that we were special people," said Loayza, now a Salt Lake City attorney. "It not only made me feel special, but it gave me a sense of transcendental identity, an identity with God."

A few years ago, Loayza said, his faith was shaken and his identity stripped away by DNA evidence showing that the ancestors of American natives came from Asia, not the Middle East. "I've gone through stages," he said. "Absolutely denial. Utter amazement and surprise. Anger and bitterness."

For Mormons, the lack of discernible Hebrew blood in Native Americans is no minor collision between faith and science. It burrows into the historical foundations of the Book of Mormon, a 175-year-old transcription that the church regards as literal and without error.

Oh well, at least the Bible is still without error.

From slime

Something to think about, from the I Saw Jesus Christ group on MySpace:

Child: Mommy where did we come from...?

Mother: "Slime son, we evolved over millions of years and come to be what you see today?"

Child: "........ok......so i'm the result of slime?"

*Ten days later Timmy shoots 5 people and then shoots himself in the head at school*

Mother: OMG WHAT WOULD CAUSE MY CHILD TO DO SUCH A THING!!!! *cry*

*Timmy wasn't aware that there were consequences for doing evil deeds, and since he thought he came from slime, whether or not he lived or died didn't matter. He was going to die anyway eventually. Since Timmy was unware of this, lied to, and a child, he will descend to heaven along with the other 5 innocents he murdered. However, because of the suppression of truth, his mother would suffer much long after the death of her beloved child.

For you Adventists out there, what your take on this?

The Physics of Time Travel - Real or Fable?

Physicists have always scoffed at the idea of time travel, considering it to be the realm of cranks, mystics, and charlatans, and with good reason. However, rather remarkable advances in quantum gravity are reviving the theory...

Anyone remotely interested in time concepts should check out the paradoxes mentioned in this blog, some real conversation pieces.

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Sleep A Thing Of The Past

New drugs which will allow people to survive on only two hours sleep a day are being developed, scientists have said.
The drugs will allow people to cope with the pressures of 24-hour society.

All I have to say is if God rested on the Seventh Day, who are we to try and change that!!!!

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Quantum Mechanics Made Relatively Simple

Funny title. Here are three lectures on quantum physics and quantum mechanics by one of the greats.

For all budding scientists, this is a must see

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Spray-on Solar-Power Cells

"Scientists have invented a plastic solar cell that can turn the sun's power into electrical energy, even on a cloudy day."

Just for our lovely English Weather!!!!!

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The Assasin Spider

The worlds most deadliest spider, to other spiders. Check out the picture, weird looking.

What a weird and wonderful world we live in

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The Physics Behind Stone Skipping

What makes a stone bounce repeatedly when thrown across the surface of a lake, and how many bounces can it perform?

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Babies have an innate ability to do simple maths

Even before babies learn to talk they have a bit of a grasp of maths, according to new research concluding that infants may have an abstract sense of numerical concepts.

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The Birthday Paradox Revisited

if you're sitting in a room with forty people in it, what are the chances that two of those people have the same birthday?...Not 11% as most would conclude but in reality, due to Math's convoluted reasoning, the odds are about 90%. This phenomenon is known as the Birthday Paradox

For all you maths lovers out there

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Online morse code translator

- .... .. ... / .. ... / .- / .--. .-. . - - -.-- / ... .-- . . - / - --- -.-- .-.-.- / . -. .--- --- -.-- .-.-.-

Here's a retro look at the good old days of morse code, if ever you need to send a message then try this site out

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Light speed by 2100?

Researcher Dr. Franklin Felber has, supposedly, figured out a way to accelerate a payload to nearly the speed of light while negating the massive pressures that were assumed to exist at that speed. If his theory is correct, we could have near-light speed travel by the end of the century.

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Pic of Galaxy on its Side

This is a picture of the Sombrero Galaxy. This the coolest space photograph I have seen in a long time. Off course, it smacks of intelligent design, but then we knew that already didn't we!!!!!!!!

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LEDs really do run on pennies!

Lately the hoopla concerning LED lighting has been overwhelming. I decided to put a new twist on a classic science experiment to prove that LEDs do cost pennies to power. Literally.

But who's going to do the British version of the experiment? any offers?? send me the results when you get it.


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Indonesia Lost World With PICS!!!

The pictures of the new species found in Indonesia.
Pretty amazing! and just another proof of God's creative ideas.

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King and cartoons

This last week has displayed two sides of a coin called "Free Will", first the death of Coretta Scott King, the widow of the Rev Martin Luther King Jr, she was known affectionately as "the first lady of the civil rights movement" , a movement that changed America and in fact the whole world. Thousands of people lined up in silence watching the casket at the famous Ebenezer Baptist Church, a half a world away, buildings were burnt, thousands protested and riots broke out at the publishing of a cartoon displaying the prophet Mohammad in a not too reverent depicition.

Both offered on the basis of free will v human rights, yet total opposite in how it played out, some say you have to stand up for what you believe, others say your actions speak louder than your words, both were radical and illegal in their days yet both made a difference to the belief in "Absoulute Truth" from whatever perspective they were looking from.

One thing I would hope that comes from this modern day oxymoron is a fuller understanding of our purpose here on this small piece of rock and how what we do affects others around us, both negatively and positively.

Map Showing the International Undersea Cables

The vast bulk of international telephone and Internet traffic travels through underwater cables. This map shows the cables that were in use as of the end of 2004 and gives an indication of where traffic is heaviest.

Could it be that little ole St Vincent has a fibre cable running past it? off course, both Cable & Wireless and Karib Kable run their cable through the Eastern Caribbean, must be worth some business don't you think.

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Moor Close team

Praise......

More singing

And the choir sings.......

Moor Close Nights

For those of you who don't have too much interest in religion, you probably wouldn't have experienced anything like Moor Close Nights, even those who come from the traditional Vincy background would struggle to imagine a service like this. But hay, the best thing I can say is go and see for yourself; for those of you who can't get there, let me know and I'll get a DVD to you.

The Moor Close Nights programme, which has been running for over a year and is based at the Newbold church near Bracknell. Growing out of the regular Moor Close Sabbath service, which has been operating at Newbold for more than nine years, Moor Close Nights is an alternative worship service, usually held on the first Saturday evening of each month. This timing is designed not to clash with other services so that the worshipers, and those taking part, can remain fully involved with their usual church activities.

Moor Close Nights includes all of the elements familiar to those who attend regular Adventist services - praise, exposition, contemplation, prayer, and the inevitable offering. However, it is the way that these components are put together that makes Moor Close Nights different. True, there is more music than in your average Adventist service, and some of it is more lively and interactive than that experienced by most Adventists on a Sabbath morning. However it is also true to say that the music is of the very highest quality. Hundreds of "person-hours" are spent in rehearsals and preparation, and the result is a well co-ordinated experience where the music perfectly complements the different phases of the service. Exuberant praise and thankfulness for what God has done in the lives of those taking part is followed by more contemplative music leading to confession and intercession.

Check out some of the pictures here or look for me at their website http://moorclose.info/

Go on, pay them a visit and be inspired.

Caffeine Free: Blue Light Makes People Alert at Night

There's much more than meets the eye to how we perceive light, researchers have learned in recent years. The latest revelation: blue light helps fend off drowsiness in the middle of the night.

Where can I get a bottle of da stuff???????

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Los Angeles police will propel a GPS device onto a fleeing car. The device

Los Angeles police will propel a GPS device onto a fleeing car. The device will stick to the car and track its location. That'll hopefully reduce dangerous high-speed chases.

Talk about taking the fun out of car chases, at least its not likely to happen in the UK, they just haul out the chopper for you

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New space-time theory does away with big-bang, dark energy etc.

A new theory presented by Alexander Franklin Mayer at Stanford claims time is not just linear, but points in different directions, just like gravity does not point in the same direction everywhere.

Nothing like a bit of deep thinking on a Sunday morning

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How to Speed Read

Learn the techniques to read anything faster and that always comes in handy in Vincy!!!

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Download CD and DVD covers for FREE

In one simple search - No sign-up, No membership - No cookies, just simply search and it will bring up all the covers for you to download FREE

For all you Vincies, life just got so much easier when getting those CD's together eh!!!!

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Mangoose Belly alive and kicking!!!!

What is De Mangoose Belly? where did it come from? what does it think about? Who does it belong to? Well pull up a pew, chill for a while and view the world from mangoose belly's point of view.