What better way to start this off, than to have a short, smart statement by the late, great Richard Feynman about how science works. So lean back for a 63 seconds 101 of science:

Big thank you to Jenny Winder for pointing out Robert Krulwich’s NPR Post in her Google+ stream.

Robert Krulwich writes:

The world knows. Our minds guess. In any contest between the two, The World Out There wins. It doesn’t matter, Feynman tells the class, “how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is, if it disagrees with the experiment, it is wrong.”

This view is based on an almost sacred belief that the ways of the world are unshakeable, ordered by laws that have no moods, no variance, that what’s “Out There” has no mind. And that we, creatures of imagination, colored by our ability to tell stories, to predict, to empathize, to remember — that we are a separate domain, creatures different from the order around us. We live, full of mind, in a mindless place. The world, says the great poet Wislawa Szymborska, is “inhuman.” It doesn’t work on hope, or beauty or dreams. It just…is.
Source: Krulwich Wonders The Essence Of Science Explained In 63 Seconds, May 17th, 2012

Given that, what you (hopefully) will find in this blog may add to the voices speaking about our attempts to understand the world… or, if you will (as we are part of the universe), the universe thinking about itself.