While people finish the required reading for the World Religions: Judaism thread, here’s a place where MuseBloggers can talk about their own religions or other religions they’ve experienced. The Judaism thread will be closed until someone is ready to summarize the relevant chapter of Huston Smith’s book.
Continued from the MBers’ Religions thread that started in May.
A fresh thread for poems and songs of interest. Elassë~adael’s idea.
A fresh thread for poems and songs of interest. Elassë~adael’s idea.
The International Astronomical Union has announced an official name for the larger-than-Pluto object that briefly looked set to become the tenth (or maybe twelfth) planet. Press release follows the cut…
IAU names dwarf planet Eris
14-September-2006, Munich: The International Astronomical Union
announces the names (136199) Eris for the dwarf planet provisionally
named 2003 UB313 and Dysnomia for its moon.
The dwarf planet formerly known as 2003 UB313 received the official
designation (136199) Eris, or Eris in short, from the International
Astronomical Union on 13th September 2006. The name was accepted almost
unanimously by the Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
(WGPSN) and the Committee for Small Body Nomenclature (CSBN).
Eris is the second dwarf planet in a sub category of objects of which
Pluto is the prototype.
The name Eris was proposed by one of the discoverers, Michael Brown
(Caltech, USA). (136199) Eris was discovered on 5th January 2005 by M.
E. Brown, C. A. Trujillo, and D. Rabinowitz at the Palomar Observatory.
Eris is a the Greek goddess of discord and strife. She stirs up jealousy
and envy to cause fighting and anger among men. At the wedding of Peleus
and Thetis, the parents of the Greek hero Achilles, all the gods with
the exception of Eris were invited, and, enraged at her exclusion, she
spitefully caused a quarrel among the goddesses that led to the Trojan war.
Eris is pronounced ee’-ris (see link 4).
Eris¹ moon, formerly known as S/2005 (2003 UB313) 1 and now known
technically as (136199) Eris I, has been named Dysnomia.
Dysnomia is the Daimon spirit of lawlessness. She is the daughter of
Eris, goddess of chaos and strife, and the counterpart to Eunomia who
puts an end to the anger of grievous strife.
The name Dysnomia was accepted unanimously by the members of the WGPSN.
The name was proposed by Mike Brown, a member of the discovery team.
The new designations have been approved by the IAU Division III
Organizing Committee and by the IAU Officers and have been announced in
IAU Circular 8747 13 September 2006.
It’s coming up on the 19th. Better start practicing rolling your arrrrs!
Our Web host company has been having them all day. We don’t know whether they’re over yet. Sorry!
–The GAPAs
Shadowkat’s idea. You’ll have to ask her what it’s all about.
Continued on Part Two.
That’s right: this week, one of your GAPAs will be visiting Muse headquarters in Chicago to help cook up diabolical surprises for future issues. (His Pwt-mobile, however, will be staying home in Virginia.) Blog moderation may slow down a bit, especially at night, so be warned.
[We’ve opened this thread up to comments, because some people seemed to want them. Beats us why, but you know what softies we are. –Admin.]
Thanks to those who suggested the new name for this month’s random thread. Now we’ll probably get even more posts
Continued from Part One.
1962-2006. The world is a little bit darker.
As always, a place for topics that need careful handling and/or an extra dose of civility.
The only way to have a clue what’s going on here is to read Ships’ Logs: Part One. Even that might not help. Fair winds and following seas, and the Muses have mercy on your souls.
Easing into the school year with a little help from your friends. But not too much help, please.
Easing into the school year with a little help from your friends. But not too much help, please.
Veteran MuseBloggers will now proceed to brief recent arrivals on aspects of blog culture and etiquette not covered in The Rules, the Hitchhiker’s Guide to MuseBlog (HG2MB), or the previous HG2MB thread.
Not so many this month, and we don’t have full information for all of them. We’ll be happy to add yours; just say the word.
09-02 Der Wachtelschlag’s/Queen Julietaini’s birthday (1993 – orange)
09-02 Hakudemon’s birthday (1992 – sky blue)
09-02 Loupgarou’s birthday (1991 – blue, purple, or green)
09-15 the man for aeiou’s birthday
09-18 Sweet Melpomene’s birthday (1990 – black-and-white)
You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between December 23, 1992, and January 21, 1993.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between March 29 and April 27, 1990.
Our inspiration failed us when it came to naming this month’s random thread, but presumably MuseBloggers won’t have that problem in posting on it.
Closed to comments. Continued on Part Two.
Page One of MuseBlog is just the beginning. Tell your fellow MBers what else is out there.
(You can start by visiting the last “Visit These Threads!” thread, if you like.)
All kinds.
Continued from (wait for it) Part the First.
Continued on Part the Third.
By special request of Capricious. It’s not even September yet, but it’s never too early to start planning.
Robert writes:
I once read that men tend to like smooth ice cream, while women prefer ice cream with lumps and such in it (marshmallows, chocolate chunks, veins of caramel, etc.). That’s definitely true of me: except for mint chocolate chip (with very small chips), I like my ice cream smooth. How about you? The blog must know!
Feel free to broaden the discussion to peanut butter, if you like.
Here’s the place to discuss it. WARNING: May contain spoilers.
If you’ve read the contest page and are looking for MuseBlog’s discussion of the Implicit Association Test, you can find it by clicking here. Enjoy!
A discussion based on Huston Smith’s book The World’s Religions (known in earlier editions as The Religions of Man) and/or the vastly inferior Complete Idiot’s Guide to World Religions.
Continued from Part 2: Hinduism.
Continued.
By popular request. It has been a while since Libraries, Books, and Bookstores and Books.
It’s hot. Well, no, it’s cold–extremely cold. But it’s in the news, and MBers are already talking about it. So here’s a place for anything more that needs to be said.