Peter Singer wrote this essay looking at the question of, if we can all agree (without violating rights) to not have any future generations of humans, would that be ethically sound (ignoring over-population, etc)? ie is future life going to experience happiness enough to make it valid to procreate. He concludes with no, although he [...]
All posts for the month June, 2010
Peter Singer on a world with no people
Posted by Shubha on June 30, 2010
http://shubhabala.com/archives/485
A quilt like a kaleidoscope
But I don’t think it’s called a kaleidoscope quilt. It consists of taking 6 identical pattern triangles and creating hexagons out of them. It’s a trip how different it ends up looking from the original fabric. My fabric is composed of jungle animals. Here’s a strip I made with 6 identical layers on top of [...]
Posted by Shubha on June 30, 2010
http://shubhabala.com/archives/477
Dimensions
As a fan of 3-D movies, I’ve often thought myself into circles by thinking about 4-D. If the fourth dimension is time, aren’t all movies already in that dimension? That is to say, their state is different at different moments in time. Doesn’t that mean movies were already 3-D, and now they are 4-D? Sometimes [...]
Posted by Shubha on June 29, 2010
http://shubhabala.com/archives/473
Weird girl
gchat conversation with Deepa that got interrupted: me: (weird girl is distracting) she’s not weird it’s just that it’s one of those huge necks on her shirts that hang down around your elbow…or shoulders but way past shoulders and she has no bra on..but she has to hold up her shirt on her boob which [...]
Posted by Shubha on June 24, 2010
http://shubhabala.com/archives/469
An interview with the curator of the Dead Sea Scrolls
My latest Speaking of Faith blogpost includes an edited interview I did with the curator of the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at the Science Museum of Minnesota. It’s here http://blog.speakingoffaith.org/post/729243060/curating-the-dead-sea-scrolls-shubha-bala
Posted by Shubha on June 24, 2010
http://shubhabala.com/archives/466
Texas Republican party’s 2010 platform
Libby says: this whole thing is like a manifesto of everything i disagree with! it’s sort of beautiful in that way… It’s the Texan Republican Party’s 2010 platform! It came up first because it orders sodomy to be illegal again! And it criminalizes anyone who tries to marry a gay couple! Evidentally inspired by Uganda. Marriage Licenses [...]
Posted by Shubha on June 21, 2010
http://shubhabala.com/archives/462
My parents’ trip to Mount Kailash
Posted by Shubha on June 14, 2010
http://shubhabala.com/archives/459
Definitely almost done!
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If you’ve been following along… just a few changes to this one. I changed the narrator though (thanks Brock!) and Libby sings more [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Posted by Shubha on June 14, 2010
http://shubhabala.com/archives/456
Understanding the depths of the ocean
This is pretty great. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/29/weekinreview/20100530BROADimg.html
Posted by Shubha on June 10, 2010
http://shubhabala.com/archives/453
Pattiamma story
I had just gotten off the phone with my mom in India and I really didn’t know what to say. I awkwardly bumbled through the usual – Pattiamma, my grandma, had a long, wonderful life before passing away in her early 90s. She had witnessed not only grandchildren, but great-grandchildren as well. I hung up [...]
Posted by Shubha on June 8, 2010
http://shubhabala.com/archives/447