Ladies and Gentlemen, we are floating in space...

..is a reminder that we indeed are floating in space. Isn't it wonderful to look at that kind of perspective? Blame Jostein Gaarder for planting this kind of sentiment, which Einstein referred to as a "cosmic religious feeling." If there's something physically probable in this world to make a rendezvous with my God possible, it would have to be being sucked by a blackhole. (By the way, someone thought blackholes result when God divides the universe by zero.)

The universe never fails to amaze me, or anyone for that matter. Just take a look at some of the various theories of the universe, it's beginning, and its eventual end (if ever it will), portrayed in pictures. I got this from idly clicking and clicking, and, Alas!, i found something interesting. ( It also lets me display my faculty of wonder, which Gaarder said, is the only requirement to being a philosopher. Ahem.)

Simple Is Beautiful

Simple shapes, simple typography, simple colour characterises their work. I snaffled them up for a spread in Information Is Beautiful about the various creation stories across cultures – scientific and mythological.

[It] Struck me. [T]here was something cool about trying to visualize such an unimaginably complex process with super-simple graphics.


A universe of thanks to Information is Beautiful .Indeed it is.