Website posting will be light today as I must write a newspaper piece, commissioned just this morning, that is due tomorrow 11 a.m. London time—and you know what’s going to happen then!
A giraffe was born only three days ago at the Cincinnati Zoo, and here’s some fantastic footage of the birth. It’s amazing that the newborn can survive that long drop, landing right on its head! A merciful god, of course, would have made the giraffes land feet first.
h/t: Matthew Cobb
“11 am. London time—and you know what’s going to happen then!”
Tea and scones?
hardly a proper teatime, is it?
No you ninny – Templeton!
😉
Scones are for afternoon tea…
One can also have morning tea, just one scone maybe. 😉
So does that mean Jerry knows who’s going to win the prize? I suppose it must. Come on, you can tell us, we won’t let on! 😉
“For Journalists: Information on the 2011 Templeton Prize Laureate can be provided in advance under strict embargo.”
Come on Jerry, we promise we won’t tell anyone!
Wait a second.
You’re not writing an acceptance speech are you! 😮
Lovely. Doesn’t need the sappy music.
Concur. Why must one be bombarded with breathless music on news and sports broadcasts? Walter Cronkite made do with the sound of a teletypewriter.
Yes, I agree, but there’s nothing I can do about the music; the video came with it. Stop being grumpy and enjoy the amazing video!
Thanks for posting stuff like this. It makes a bad day better!
Giraffa nata est nobis,
et Cameleopardis data est nobis,
cujus imperium super humerum ejus
et vocabitur nomen ejus,
magni consilii Evolutionibus.
We’re proud of our new baby giraffe here in Cincinnati.
As you should be.
Congrats! Awesome.
She is sooo gorgeous, and her little horns (are they called horns?) are all squooshed and funny looking, lol.
Nothing like coming into this world by falling on one’s head.
Landing on one’s head is the price giraffe’s pay for Original Sin.
The first sixteen seconds of this video are going to give me nightmares.
It’s just been announced. It’s Martin Rees, the UK astrophysicist.
Martin Rees….
makes sense – an atheist who attends church…
🙁
Q …devout, in any way?
A Em no. I think I grew up in a conventional Church of England background, but not especially devout.
Q But churchgoing?
A Churchgoing, and I went to a school where we all went to chapel, so that was part of my life. But I would say I was never a really dogmatic believer.
Q Did it have any impact at all?
A I suppose I absorbed it as part of my culture, and indeed for that reason I still attend church and chapel services, and enjoy the ritual and the music.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/programmes/belief/scripts/martin_rees.html
“I have no specific religious beliefs…” he just said.
The Royal Institution – desperate for money due to a disasterous period recently –
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/aug/12/royal-institution-christmas-talks
Could it be Templeton has bailed them out?