.: Above The Aether :.

I started reading The Last American Man, by Elizabeth Gilbert, last week. It’s been a while since I purposefully slowed down my reading and forced myself to savor a book because I liked it so much. The book follows Eustace Conway, a man who walked into the woods as a young man and then walked [...]

From Discover Magazine: Efforts to understand time below the Planck scale have led to an exceedingly strange juncture in physics. The problem, in brief, is that time may not exist at the most fundamental level of physical reality. If so, then what is time? And why is it so obviously and tyrannically omnipresent in our [...]

Striving to devolve our population one field trip at a time, the Creationist Museum, located in Petersberg, Kentucky presents “the facts” in a very quotable way.  Here’s a quote from their “About Us” page. We’ll begin the Museum experience by showing that “facts” don’t speak for themselves (click here for a proposed drawing of this [...]

Here is an interesting blog post from Zen Habits. Not sure I agree with everything on the list, but a lot of them make sense. I happen to clash with large gaping sections, especially “lose weight” and “rise early.”  Wasn’t Buddha fat…er jolly? Read the post here. -Dave

Here’s an interesting post from my pal Scott about his Buddhist leanings. I wouldn’t consider myself a full-fledged Buddhist at this point, but I wouldn’t rule out the possibility that it could happen. My wife has said that’s fine with her as long as I don’t give up my job, sell our possessions, and start [...]

From Treehugger: Jerry Falwell, God’s gift to swooning teenage girls everywhere, was actually quoted calling environmentally conscious Christians “niave.” Apparently there’s a liberal conspiracy involving this whole fake global warming thing… The whole story can be read here. (If you stare at my photoshop monstrosity above, eventually you will join Jerry in his crusade against [...]

This is pretty insightful (and funny). Watch the movie here. -Dave

Have you ever wondered if the Human Torch went to church or if Batman carried a rosary in that utility belt of his? Well, someone (with a lot of time on his or her hands) has put together a website detailing numerous comic book heroes and their religious affiliations. To quote the Comicbook Guy from [...]

This is pretty interesting. Take 5 minutes out of your day to complete this brief survey about religion. This survey matches your beliefs up with the belief structures of numerous religions. The results are returned in the form of a matching percentage for each religion. Here are my matches: 1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Liberal [...]