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flavorpill: A Brief History of Songs That Have Gone to Space

Wed, 15 May 2013 09:03:02 -0400

A Brief History of Songs That Have Gone to Space

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Wed, 08 May 2013 09:50:58 -0400

"I’m a big Taylor fan as well. Taylor, I’ve known since the beginning of her career, Faith and I’s..."

Wed, 08 May 2013 09:12:22 -0400

“I’m a big Taylor fan as well. Taylor, I’ve known since the beginning of her career, Faith and I’s Soul to Soul tour, Taylor opened for us with an acoustic guitar and another guitar player, she was out playing for these huge audiences. The thing that I’ve admired about Taylor and watched about Taylor’s career is her talent. Not only is she a great singer, I love her singing and I love her voice, and I love the way she interprets what she does and how she owns herself, how she owns her music, owns her style, but I think she’s one of those rare songwriters that comes along every now and then in a music career that cuts such a great weight that everybody gets caught up in it. She truly is, really a remarkable songwriter. All the other talent speaks for itself, she’s a great singer, she’s a beautiful girl, she’s very smart, she’s got great style, all those things are there and you see them but her songwriting to me, I think is just spectacular.”

- Tim McGraw on Taylor Swift, Highway Don’t Care Google Chat (via jencita)

kqedscience: Naki’o is the First ‘Bionic’ Dog Fitted with Four...

Sun, 05 May 2013 08:51:02 -0400

kqedscience:

Naki’o is the First ‘Bionic’ Dog Fitted with Four Prosthetic Limbs

“Naki’o, a mixed breed dog from Nebraska, has become the first dog fitted with four prosthetic limbs. This strange achievement was accomplished by US company Orthopets, which specializes in artificial pet limbs. Naki’o lost his limbs and part of his tail to frostbite when he was abandoned in a cellar as a puppy, but now, thanks to a successful operation, he can run and play freely like other dogs.”

colchrishadfield: Our Moon, tinted blue, made so by the wisp of...

Sun, 05 May 2013 08:49:42 -0400

colchrishadfield:

Our Moon, tinted blue, made so by the wisp of Earth’s atmosphere.

artverso: Mike Allred - Spider-Man vrs Iron Man

Sun, 05 May 2013 08:14:32 -0400

artverso:

Mike Allred - Spider-Man vrs Iron Man

frostpop: Anticlinal, sinclinal.

Sun, 05 May 2013 07:56:25 -0400

frostpop:

Anticlinal, sinclinal.

staceythinx: Artist Nike Savvas transforms mathematic formulas...

Wed, 01 May 2013 09:04:12 -0400

staceythinx:

Artist Nike Savvas transforms mathematic formulas into beautiful sculptures.

timgspears: Window Socket - Kyuho Song & Boa Oh So this is...

Wed, 01 May 2013 09:04:10 -0400

timgspears:

Window Socket - Kyuho Song & Boa Oh

So this is an absolutley brilliant idea! Just attach the plug on to a window and it will harness solar energy. A small converter will convert it into electricity which can be freely used as a plug when you are in the car, on a plane or outside.

Love this design and I really think it has a great potential.

physicsphysics: hydrogeneportfolio: Minimal Posters - Five...

Wed, 01 May 2013 08:23:50 -0400

physicsphysics:

hydrogeneportfolio:

Minimal Posters - Five Great Mathematicians And Their Contributions.

Y’know, math is really just a less fun kind of physics…

I kid, each discipline has its own pro’s and con’s - but to not respect the relationship between mathematics and physics is the same as to not understand either.

"Genuine creativity needs a collision of ideas, something that will never happen if all your thoughts..."

Wed, 01 May 2013 07:29:23 -0400

“Genuine creativity needs a collision of ideas, something that will never happen if all your thoughts travel in the same direction.”

- Ian Gilbert on the five steps of ideation in a field guide to creativity (via explore-blog)

crookedindifference: Hubble Space Telescope launched 23 years...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:55:37 -0400

crookedindifference:

Hubble Space Telescope launched 23 years ago today.

flower exposed to radiation from Fukushima nuclear facility...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 01:16:07 -0400

flower exposed to radiation from Fukushima nuclear facility Japan

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Tue, 23 Apr 2013 01:06:43 -0400

kellycascarones: “This planet is not terra firma. It is a...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:40:59 -0400

kellycascarones:

“This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It’s lonely. It’s small. It’s isolated, and there is no resupply. And we are mistreating it. Clearly, the highest loyalty we should have is not to our own country or our own religion or our hometown or even to ourselves. It should be to, number two, the family of man, and number one, the planet at large. This is our home, and this is all we’ve got.” — Scott Carpenter, Mecury 7 astronaut

Every day is Earth day 🌍

staceythinx: Geek chic from the Projector Etsy store.

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:29:14 -0400

staceythinx:

Geek chic from the Projector Etsy store.

npr: As an artist, Caitlin Freeman found her calling in...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 07:51:23 -0400

npr:

As an artist, Caitlin Freeman found her calling in cake.

She bakes at the cafe in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where the most popular item is a dessert inspired by the art of Piet Mondrian. It features geometric blocks of white velvet cake, colored red, blue and yellow, stacked together and “glued” with chocolate. It takes two days to prepare, according to her new cookbook, Modern Art Desserts.

Want. Cake. Now. -Heidi

Photos: Art 2013 Mondrian/Holtzman Trust c/o HCR International USA/Dessert Clay McLachlan/Reprinted by permission from ‘Modern Art Desserts’

Dear Ms. Swift, Sorry, but I didn’t want to be presumptuous...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 07:36:01 -0400

Dear Ms. Swift,

Sorry, but I didn’t want to be presumptuous and call you Taylor, even though your name is spoken so often in our house that it seems that you are one of the family. Well, I know you are extremely busy, so I will get to the point. My reason for writing you is to let you know about my beautiful and courageous 14-year old daughter, Sarah Neal, who just absolutely loves anything and everything ‘TS’, and who has been fighting Ewing’s Sarcoma, a rare type of bone cancer that affects only about 200 children and teens each year.

Since Sarah’s diagnosis on 08 September 2010, she has endured 35 multi-day chemotherapy sessions, 5 weeks of radiation therapy, had 7 surgeries (including 2 limb-saving surgeries), has slept in a hospital bed more than she has in her own bed, and has been unable to attend middle school for all but a couple of weeks total.

As any parents would, my wife and I have tried to provide any possible distraction to keep Sarah’s spirits up and her mind off of her battle, which is how we came by the Make a Wish organization. But Sarah is so unselfish that she used her Wish to take the family to Disney World in December, 2011, instead of using it to meet you, which I know is what she really wanted. Because she gave up the potential chance to meet you, we have done everything possible to have her see you in some way. We saw your Speak Now tour in Dallas and in San Antonio, which is actually where we now live and Sarah is being treated. I managed to get Red concert tickets to your Dallas show in May. We will be sitting in Section 441, Row 17, seats 1-5.

Now that you know a little about my brave daughter, I hate to do this, but I need to ask you for a favor. Completing even one of the following three requests would hold you dear in my daughter’s life forever:

1. PLEASE send Sarah a personalized letter, photo, or whatever, wishing her well. I would make sure it became a center point in her room. She has even started trying to play guitar because of you!
2. PLEASE reach out and pick Sarah to attend your Dallas pre or post-concert Tea Party. Meeting you would be the highlight of her life. Hanging out with you for longer than a couple of minutes would be truly epic.
3. PLEASE contact me and I can arrange for you to hang out at the San Antonio Military Medical Center’s (SAMMC) Pediatric Oncology Clinic while you are here in San Antonio for your concert (a very special Tea Party maybe?). The Clinic is secure, as you would expect, and is adjacent to the Pediatric Ward. I know you have visited our wounded warriors in the past at other military hospitals. Why not come visit another type of hero; military kids that quietly fight a different type of battle each day? I promise that you would forever cherish the time spent with our Oncology children at SAMMC.

Thank you so much for your time and for being such an absolutely fantastic role model for girls and women. Your talent speaks for itself, but the way you gracefully live your life is an inspiration to all. By the way, thank you for the song, Ronan, it was incredibly touching and obviously hit home for a family fighting the fight, especially to me as a father.

My contact info can be sent to you directly in a personal message if you are interested. God Bless you and all the children.

Sincerely,
Scott Neal, Sergeant Major, U.S. Army
08 April, 2013

Help trend #SwiftForSarah

sagansense: Mars Terraforming This feat, the “terraforming”...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 07:20:18 -0400

sagansense:

Mars Terraforming

This feat, the “terraforming” of Mars from its current lifeless or near-lifeless state to a living, breathing world supporting multitudes of diverse and novel life forms and ecologies, will be one of the greatest and noblest enterprises of the human spirit. No one will be able to contemplate it and not feel prouder to be human.

Life in the initial Mars settlements will be harder than life on Earth for most people, but life in the first North American colonies was much harder than life in Europe as well. People will go to Mars for many of the same reasons they went to colonial America: Because they want to make a mark or a new start, or because they are members of groups who are persecuted on Earth, or because they are members of groups who want to create a society according to their own principles. Many kinds of people will go, with many kinds of skills, but all who will go will be people willing to take a change to do something important with their lives. Out of such people are great projects made and great causes won. Aided by ever-advancing technology, such people can transform a planet and bring a dead world to life.

- Robert Zubrin, Entering Space: Creating A Spacefaring Civilization

suicideblonde: Robert Downey Jr photographed by Peggy Sirota...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 06:27:28 -0400

suicideblonde:

Robert Downey Jr photographed by Peggy Sirota for GQ, May 2013