Here are some of my favorite things...

In no particular order

• Backpacking
• Miscellaneous Pictures & Video
• The Great Lakes of North America
• Cosmology [Foundations] (and our Solar System, npj & NSSDC)
            also: Planetary Society, Spaceflight, and, of course, NASA OSF
• Animals (and not eating them [ but still eating well ] and not using their skin)
• The book "Earth" by David Brin - and the movie Contact (written by Carl Sagan)
• A very very very sparse blog   and   quips of mine (and others)
  
• Brains and Mind
• My wife, Liz
• My friends
• Simon T. Kitty
• My heroes
• This Joke
• Skepticism         Here's a great site to see if you should believe what you read: Snopes)

NOTE: This web site is an "Intelligent Design"-free zone!         (here are some of my own thoughts on the topic).
        Articles: NYT by Daniel C. Denett

About the background pic:

This blue-to-pink fade is a derivation of a very thin slice of this picture taken on day 10 of NASA's shuttle mission STS-85. The slice is of the Earth, and the atmosphere against the backdrop of space.

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