mai 2013
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“If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet;...”
– Fred Rogers (via skeletales)
Doors Keyboardist Ray Manzarek (1939-2013) Tells... →
Ray Manzarek of the Doors died Monday of cancer. He was 74. Manzarek’s jazz-inflected, classically influenced keyboard playing, woven together with Jim Morrison’s baritone vocals, helped define the sound of the 1960s.
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Landsat Data Continuity Mission: The Long Swath →
On April 12, 2013, the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) reached its final orbit, 705 kilometers (438 miles) above Earth. One week later, the satellite’s natural-color imager scanned a swath of land 185-kilometers wide and 9,000 kilometers long (120 by 6,000 miles)—an unusual, unbroken distance considering 70 percent of Earth is covered with water. That flight path afforded us the...
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Put Down the iPhone and Pickup an ONDU Wooden... →
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Stealing Lilacs by Alice Persons
A guaranteed miracle,
it happens for two weeks each May,
this bounty of riches
where McMansion, trailer,
the humblest driveway
burst with color--pale lavender,
purple, darker plum--
and glorious scent.
This morning a battered station wagon
drew up on my street
and a very fat woman got out
and starting tearing branches
from my neighbor's tall old lilac--
grabbing, snapping stems, heaving
armloads...
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Bonneville Salt Flats at Night - 3D Panorama →
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26 Faces in Everyday Objects →
Have you ever noticed how various objects and constructions look as if they’ve got faces – they are smiling, being angry or amazed. However, what some may call acuteness to detail is usually attributed to a psychological phenomenon, called pareidolia – that’s when a person perceives a …
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Choice quotes from Col. Chris Hadfield during his...
“On the ISS, when you have 30 seconds free, you go do something else!” “It’s a whole new normal, my body was perfectly happy living in space… My body is catching up with the change.” “We’re learning about the fundamental nature of matter because the ISS exists.” “People followed me because there is poetry and purpose in what is happening...
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"God Sleepeth Not": Helen Keller's Blistering... →
In mid-May, 1933, Americans learned that students in German universities planned to burn a long list of books deemed
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America's first climate refugees →
climateadaptation:
It’s a choice confronting more than 180 native communities in Alaska, which are flooding and losing land because of the ice melt that is part of the changing climate.
In a special three part series on the imminent crisis, the Guardian has visited Newtok and spoken to the villagers, politicians and climate scientists about their plight. You can
read about it here.
The...
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An Animated Visualization of Every Observed... →
Carlo Zapponi, a data visualization designer at Nokia, has created a pretty splendid visualization of the 1,042 meteorites that humans have witnessed hitting our planet since 861 AD. If you click the image above, you will see the visualization in full screen mode.
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Water Trapped For 1.5 Billion Years Could Hold... →
Scientists have discovered water that was sealed in Canadian bedrock for nearly half of Earth’s history. It may contain the descendants of ancient microbes. The discovery could give scientists new insights into early life on Earth and inform the search for life on other planets.
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Chris Hadfield First News Conference →
2013-05-16 - Astronaute de l’ASC Chris Hadfield - première conférence de presse depuis son retour sur Terre / 2013-05-16 - CSA Astronaut Chris Hadfield First News Conference Since Returning to Earth
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The Canadian Astronaut's Accompanist : NPR →
Canadian pop Singer Emm Gryner has known astronaut Chris Hadfield for years, which made her a perfect collaborator on his cover of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity.” It doesn’t hurt that Gryner has worked with Bowie himself, as well.
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Trafic aerien | Facebook →
Des élèves d’une école d’ingénieurs suisse qui forme des aiguilleurs du ciel ont réalisé ce film étonnant: C’est la visualisation de l’ensemble du trafic aérien dans le monde en 24H00 projetée sur une mappemonde et ramenée à 1 minute. ça vaut le coup. Chaque point jaune représente un avion ; observez bien le passage de la nuit et ses conséquences sur les flux et...
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A TED Talk That Might Turn Every Man Who Watches... →
This is what male feminism looks like.
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PHOTOS: 'Not Just A Girl' Recreates Iconic... →
When Jaime Moore’s daughter, Emma, turned 5, the Texas mom and photographer set out to commemorate the occasion in pictures. Searching for inspiration online, however, she was dismayed to find the majority of girls at that age dressed up, unrealistically, as fairy-tale princesses.
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Demotivateur.fr | Les Stars deviennent des oeuvres... →
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Girl with a pearl earring is a must-see!
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These Are All Your Favorite Things Gorgeously... →
Remember being a little kid and taking toys apart to see what they were really made of? Toronto-based artist and photographer Todd McLellan does.
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Laughterpedia: The Laughter to English Dictionary... →
Expand your humor vocabulary with this collection of funny terms. Do you speak comedian?
