Caught some nice stars from my backyard. Take some time to look up and marvel at the great beyond…..
Webbetizers: Interesting Tidbits of Science, Technology & Culture
Presented by The Necessary Stage in collaboration with the Centre for Biomedical Etchics, Future Perfect is a light-hearted, dramatic and sometimes poignant educational play.
Written by Haresh Sharma and directed by Alvin Tan, watch as three stories are intertwined in this brand new play about human enhancement. The first story is about a couple, Melissa and Joe, who take the Youth Fountain Serum while the second story features a shop at the market which sells stem cells and the unlikely friendship that develops between seller Sam and Gina. Witness a young husband and his mother visit Designer Babies, a new centre which creates perfect babies through genetic modification in the third story. Admission is completely FREE!Steuben catered to the needs and ideologies of the men in the Continental Army. He knew that soldiers who felt that military service was not a necessity, would often question authority. When given an order many soldiers would ask 'Why?' This was what Steuben realized and built his form of discipline around. If a soldier asked why, and there was a good reason for it, then the soldier would ultimately obey the order. This is why the uniformity and simplicity of Steuben's system was so successful in the Continental Army. - via freerepublic.com
What are SOPA and PIPA?
SOPA and PIPA represent two bills in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate respectively. SOPA is short for the "Stop Online Piracy Act," and PIPA is an acronym for the "Protect IP Act." ("IP" stands for "intellectual property.") In short, these bills are efforts to stop copyright infringement committed by foreign web sites, but, in our opinion, they do so in a way that actually infringes free expression while harming the Internet. Detailed information about these bills can be found in the Stop Online Piracy Actand PROTECT IP Act articles on Wikipedia, which are available during the blackout. GovTrack lets you follow both bills through the legislative process: SOPA on this page, and PIPA on this one. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to advocating for the public interest in the digital realm, has summarized why these bills are simply unacceptable in a world that values an open, secure, and free Internet.
