Tag: Richard Dawkins
event: The Greatest Show on Earth: An Evening with Richard Dawkins
by Greg on Aug.04, 2009, under Science Event
| October 19, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
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Famed scientific thinker, evolutionary biologist and ardent atheist Richard Dawkins will be gracing the LEED certified halls of the New York Academy of Sciences this October. Tickets are available. Networking opportunities after the lecture are being advertised. The author of the controversial book The Selfish Gene will map out the rock solid case that science has built to prove that the current bio reality we see is a result of evolution by means of natural selection pressures, an argument made by Darwin 150 years ago. Hopefully someone can ask him how Bill Maher, as science illiterate as a celebrity can get, has been recently chosen as this year’s Richard Dawkins Award. The award usually goes “to honoring an outstanding atheist whose work has done most to raise public awareness of atheism during that year”. (continue reading…)
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Little Galaxy With a Tail
This infrared portrait of the Small Magellanic Cloud, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, reveals stars and dust in this galaxy as never seen before. T The image shows the main body of the Small Magellanic Cloud, which is comprised of the "bar" and "wing" on the left and the "tail" extending to the right. The bar contains both old stars (in blue) and young stars lighting up their natal dust (green/red). The wing mainly contains young stars. The tail contains only gas, dust and newly formed stars. Spitzer data has confirmed that the tail region was recently torn off the main body of the galaxy. Two of the tail clusters, which are still embedded in their birth clouds, can be seen as red dots. The data in this image are being used by astronomers to study the lifecycle of dust in the entire galaxy: from the formation in stellar atmospheres, to the reservoir containing the present day interstellar medium, and the dust consumed in forming new stars. The dust being formed in old, evolved stars (blue stars with a red tinge) is measured using mid-infrared wavelengths. The present day interstellar dust is weighed by measuring the intensity and color of emission at longer infrared wavelengths. The rate at which the raw material is being consumed is determined by studying ionized gas regions and the younger stars (yellow/red extended regions). The Small Magellanic Cloud, and its companion galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud, are the two galaxies where this type of study is possible. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI
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