Paul Simon Never Sang About This

There must be 50 ways to leave your lover — Paul Simon

There must be 50 ways to leave your louver — How to Build a Good Louver

There must be 50 ways to leave the Louvre — design guidelines for the Louvre

38 Ways To Win An Argument—Arthur Schopenhauer

Really a list of dishonest ways to appear to win an argument, because they virtually all involve using logical fallacies to distort the opponent’s position or distract from what’s really going on. See how often they are used in politics, though.

h/t to ecoli

Science = Imagination

Bad Astronomy: Science IS imagination

People don’t understand science.

And I don’t mean that your average person doesn’t understand how relativity works, or quantum mechanics, or biochemistry. Like any advanced study, it’s hard to understand them, and it takes a lifetime of work to become familiar with them.

No, what I mean is that people don’t understand the process of science. How a scientist goes from a list of observations and perhaps a handful of equations to understanding. To knowing.

Redoubtable

The Big Picture: Alaska’s Mount Redoubt

Beginning March 22nd, 2009, Alaska’s Mount Redoubt, began a series of volcanic eruptions, and continues to be active to this date. Ash clouds produced by Redoubt have pushed 65,000 feet into the sky, disrupting air traffic, drifting across Cook Inlet, and depositing layers of gritty ash on populated areas of the Kenai Peninsula and Anchorage, about 180 km (110 miles) to the northeast. Mount Redoubt has erupted at least five times since 1900, with the most recent event taking place in 1989. (27 photos total)