#13.7 billion

[ruinedchildhood]

For $13.7 billion, Amazon bought Whole Foods company this week. This is the must Amazon has spent to buy another company and don’t worry Whole Foods stores will remain at their current locations. What Amazon hopes to utilize is a merging between Whole Foods and AmazonFresh.

CEO Jeff Bezos of Amazon had this to say “Whole Foods Market has been satisfying, delighting, and nourishing customers for nearly four decades — they’re doing an amazing job and we want that to continue.”

[richvanvoorst]

"The new record holder is the galaxy MACS0647-JD, which is about 13.3 billion light-years away. The universe itself is only 13.7 billion years old, so this galaxy's light has been traveling toward us for almost the whole history of space and time."

First, TOTALLY AWESOME!!!

Second, does the above quote sound absolutely crazy to anyone else? Do we really think that we can make that statement and know that? Is our universe really that simple that we with our tiny little brains really know this much about the universe and all of its wonders to make this statement? Sometimes I'm just blown away at the arrogance of us, the amazing, god-like, carbon and water "accidents" that we are! Sweet galaxy though! Farthest Known Galaxy in the Universe Discovered - Yahoo! News

[zeitvox]

...Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow do not succeed in murdering philosophy in their recent book The Grand Design. Nor do they even try. Perhaps this is because they believe, as they blandly announce on the first page, that philosophy is already dead.

But the joke's on them. If philosophy were a big burlap bag, then these writers seem to have delivered us their book higgledy-piggledy from somewhere in the dark within.

This joke, indeed this irony, is often on all of us - though for some more self-consciously than others.

They are in good company, to be sure. But to judge from the text, Hawking and Mlodinow don't seem to have any sense of the history, the pre-history, or indeed the lively present of the ideas they are tossing around... it's a rehash of philosophical ideas whose real interest seems to elude the authors.

 - Alva Noë from an interesting new NPR blog, 13.7, "set at the intersection of science and culture".