#burnell

[nerds-yearbook]

The third volume of Swamp Thing published its first issue with a cover date of May 2000. The issue saw Mary transform into Tefe' during Prom and murder Catherine and David in a jealous rage. ("In Lieu of Flowers", Swamp Thing vol 3 1, DC/Vertigo Event)

[noosphe-re]

Science is a quest for understanding. A search for truth seems to me to be full of pitfalls. We all have different understandings of what truth is, and we'll each believe, or we are in danger of each believing, that our truth is the one and only absolute truth, which is why I say it's full of pitfalls. I think a search for understanding is much more serviceable to humankind, and is a sufficiently ambitious goal of itself.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Jocelyn Bell Burnell: Science is About Understanding, Not Truth, Big Think, March 8, 2015

[babkaioshka]

Synth by Neil Burnell Via Flickr: Boat passing the Breakwater Lighthouse taken on my 300mm F4.

[taifunu]

That Tree by Neil Burnell Via Flickr: Snowdonia

[simonburnell]

Went to a reptile convention today. They had spiders! I got to hold a spider she was so sweet. 😍 and my friend got to hold a big Snek. It was a good day.

[fitzsimmonsaf]

i'm rewatching last night's episode and seriously the kid who calls out hydra being a nazi organization is still my new hero and we deserve more of him

[noosphe-re]

I find that quakerism and research science fit together very, very well. In quakerism you're expected to develop your own understanding of god from your experience in the world. There isn't a creed, there isn't a dogma. There's an understanding but nothing as formal as a dogma or creed and this idea that you develop your own understanding also means that you keep redeveloping your understanding as you get more experience, and it seems to me that's very like what goes on in "the scientific method." You have a model, of a star, it's an understanding, and you develop that model in the light of experiments and observations, and so in both you're expected to evolve your thinking. Nothing is static, nothing is final, everything is held provisionally.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Beautiful Minds, BBC Four

[noosphe-re]

Looking at the universe as a whole; cosmology, the birth, life and death of the whole universe, we used to have a nice simple model. Then we had to add things like dark energy, and our nice simple picture is getting messier and messier and messier.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell