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"Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars, that exploded their chemically enriched guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we're all connected. To each other - biologically, to the earth - chemically, and to the rest of the universe - atomically. [...] It's not that we're better than the universe, we're part of the universe. We're in the universe and the universe is in us."

-- Neil deGrasse Tyson (4:26 into this video)

The good news keep piling on today, and it makes me all tingly inside :)

ACTA was resoundingly crushed in the European Parliament. If there's any justice in the world this piece of shit legislation is now dead and gone and we'll never have to deal with the likes of it or SOPA ever again.

They maybe possibly probably found the Higgs particle at Cern. This is really big (bang). Ha.

Egyptian Ahmed Agiza has finally been given permanent citizenship in Sweden. In 2001 we turned this man over to CIA agents for suspected "terrorism". They flew him back to Egypt, where he was then tortured and imprisoned for ten years. The fact that he was innocent didn't matter one bit. In short, we owe him the fucking moon, but I suppose a citizenship will have to do.