February 2012
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WatchSun’s explosive whiplash clearly seen far above surface
NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory had a fantastic birds eye view of a solar eruption and ensuing coronal mass ejection which began on February 9th, 2012. A filament was released from the Sun’s surface in a violent whipping motion. This eruption was responsible for the beautiful aurora of the past days and weeks...
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“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind...”
– Shunryu Suzuki
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WatchJona’s home videos - january & february 2012
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WatchBrothers
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“Great spirits have always faced violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
– Albert Einstein
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January 2012
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“Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,...”
– Albert Einstein
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“Stay true in the dark & humble in the spotlight.”
– Harold B. Lee
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“A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise...”
– William Saroyan
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“It’s up to you to find beauty in the ugliest days.”
– Unknown
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WatchThe invisible side of design
As designers, we tend to get distracted by aesthetics of our creations, and often do not pay enough attention to the other, invisible side of our work. This talk discusses the significance of purpose, substance and context in our design decisions. It argues about the value of storytelling, content strategy and thorough editorial work. It also provides practical...
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What your eyes say about who you are
As you read these words, try paying attention to something you usually never notice: the movements of your eyes. While you scan these lines of text, or glance at the sidebar over there or look up from the screen at the room beyond, your eyes are making tiny movements, called saccades, and brief pauses, called fixations. Scientists are discovering that eye movement patterns — where we look,...
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“All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But...”
– Ira Glass
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“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”
– John W. Gardner
December 2011
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Discovery of a new particle?
The most coveted prize in particle physics - the Higgs boson - may have been glimpsed, say researchers reporting at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva.
Finding the Higgs would be one of the biggest scientific advances of the last 60 years. It is crucial for allowing us to make sense of the Universe, but has never been observed by experiments.
Scientists say that two experiments at the...
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“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our...”
– Howard Zinn
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WatchMerry X-mas & Happy New Year to all!
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WatchIKEA career instructions
I came across this video about an original print advertisment campaign for IKEA Australia that I thought was worth posting.
Career instructions were printed and placed inside the famous IKEA flat packs. Customers literally delivered the mailer to themselves. They could then also share it with friends and family. Not only did it talk directly to those who love the...
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“We explore promising avenues that, days later, become dead ends. Sometimes, we...”
– Cennydd Bowles
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Lightning in space?
Flying above the U.S. Midwest, scientists using high-speed video cameras have caught the first 3-D images of sprites, elves, blue jets, and crawlers—in the form of lightning, that is.
First seen by scientists in 1989, sprites and their menagerie of exotically named kin are bursts of electrical energy that form about 50 miles (80 kilometers) above Earth, sometimes leaping all the way...
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“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did...”
– Steve Jobs
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Searching for Earth's twin
NASA’s Kepler mission has recently confirmed its first planet in the “habitable zone,” the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. Kepler also has discovered more than 1,000 new planet candidates, nearly doubling its previously known count. Ten of these candidates are near-Earth-size and orbit in the habitable zone of their host star. Candidates require...
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“Don’t strive to make your presence noticed, make your absence felt.”
– Unknown
November 2011
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Could "Earthscraper" turn architecture upside...
A team of Mexican architects have designed a 65-story glass and steel pyramid to sit in the middle of Mexico City’s most historic plaza. But, if it ever gets built, you won’t see it anywhere on the skyline.
That’s because it would be the world’s first ever “earthscraper” - a 300-meter deep office and living space with ambitions to turn the modern high-rise,...
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“To boldly go where no man has gone before”
– Star Trek
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Faster-than-light discovery?
An Italian experiment has unveiled evidence that fundamental particles known as neutrinos can travel faster than light. Other researchers are cautious about the result, but if it stands further scrutiny, the finding would overturn the most fundamental rule of modern physics — that nothing travels faster than 299,792,458 metres per second.
The experiment is called OPERA (Oscillation Project...
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“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
– Albert Einstein
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“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
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“Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been...”
– G. M. Trevelyan
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The internet is making us stupid!
Sure, anecdotal evidence is somewhat sketchy, but I’m sure many of you have felt the feeling that the many hours you’ve spent online has subjected you to more content but has made you all the dumber for reading it.
The Internet is making us stupid. It’s actually changing the way we think, and not for the better.
You can wait until science proves what you already know to be true, or you can...
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To Mars and back, as real as it gets!
Today, the Mars-500 experiment has ended! This ESA experiment was a multi-part ground-based experiment simulating a manned flight to Mars. The experiment’s facility was located at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) in Moscow, Russia. A total of 640 experiment days were scheduled between 2007 and 2011, divided into three stages.
During each...
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October 2011
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WatchAutumn walk
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Un unusual monday night in the northern latitudes
On the night of October 24th a wave of charged particles from a sun storm reached earth and set off a larger than normal display of the Northern Lights. In case you missed it, there are some very nice pictures on the Flickr Blog.