Memory is a record.
People only have substance within the memories of other people. And that’s why there were all kinds of myself. There weren’t a lot of myself per se, I was just inside all sorts of people, that’s all.
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"When this happens, the atomic spin of every atom on the planet should wobble very slightly."

Astrophysicists Test Cosmological Defect Detector (via outofcontextscience)
Reblogged from drjohnwatson, Posted by useyourcharm. Filed under: #SCIENCE
useyourcharm: SO I CAN LIVE OFF MASHED POTATOES IS THAT WHAT YOU’RE SAYING

useyourcharm:

SO I CAN LIVE OFF MASHED POTATOES

IS THAT WHAT YOU’RE SAYING

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Deconstructing The Data Artist And Google Mastermind, Aaron Koblin

Total Solar Eclipse Occurs Tuesday: How to Watch Online

The total solar eclipse on Tuesday (Nov. 13) may only be visible from slivers of northern Australia and a swathe of open ocean, but you don’t have to make an epic journey to see the dramatic celestial event.

Several different organizations will webcast live views of the total solar eclipse, which begins at 3:35 p.m. EST (2035 GMT) on Tuesday (Nov. 13; however, it will actually be Nov. 14 local time in Australia).

The online Slooh Space Camera is one such outfit. It will broadcast a live feed of the 2012 total solar eclipse from a site near the city of Cairns, in the Australian state of Queensland, starting at 2:30 p.m. EST (1930 GMT) Tuesday. The eclipse will commence around sunrise local time, making for a particularly memorable spectacle, Slooh officials said.

Reblogged from motherjones, Posted by motherjones. Filed under: #sandy #hurricane #climate change #science #new york #news
motherjones: Via 350.org: As Hurricane Sandy approaches the city, New Yorkers gathered in Times Square to send our politicians and the media a message: End the climate silence. Connect the dots between extreme weather and climate change.

motherjones:

Via 350.org:

As Hurricane Sandy approaches the city, New Yorkers gathered in Times Square to send our politicians and the media a message:

End the climate silence. Connect the dots between extreme weather and climate change.

"Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know."

Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate)

Professor Cecilia Payne, ladies and gentlemen.

(via neon-loneliness)

This is a great example of how the education we receive focuses around the discoveries and perspectives of men.

(via fffigures)

Reblogged from npr, Posted by inothernews. Filed under: #tsunami #antarctica #icebergs #science
humanscaled: RIPPLE NIP   Satellite images taken on March 12 and 16 taken by ESA’s Envisat satellite show new icebergs created after the Japan tsunami hit the Sulzberger Ice Shelf in Antarctica — more than 8,000 miles away.  The largest of the icebergs measured about 3.5 by 6 miles.  (Photo: ESA via the Telegraph) via inothernews

humanscaled:

RIPPLE NIP   Satellite images taken on March 12 and 16 taken by ESA’s Envisat satellite show new icebergs created after the Japan tsunami hit the Sulzberger Ice Shelf in Antarctica — more than 8,000 miles away.  The largest of the icebergs measured about 3.5 by 6 miles.  (Photo: ESA via the Telegraph)

via inothernews

NASA finds DNA components in meteorites that originated in space.

(Source: sisterspock)

Reblogged from itsfullofstars, Posted by itsfullofstars. Filed under: #nasa #mars #solar system #space #astronomy #geology #science
itsfullofstars: NASA Spacecraft Data Suggest Water Flowing on Mars Observations from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed possible flowing water during the warmest months on Mars. “NASA’s Mars Exploration Program keeps bringing us closer to determining whether the Red Planet could harbor life in some form,” NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said, “and it reaffirms Mars as an important future destination for human exploration.” Keep reading.

itsfullofstars:

NASA Spacecraft Data Suggest Water Flowing on Mars

Observations from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed possible flowing water during the warmest months on Mars.

“NASA’s Mars Exploration Program keeps bringing us closer to determining whether the Red Planet could harbor life in some form,” NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said, “and it reaffirms Mars as an important future destination for human exploration.”

Keep reading.

Reblogged from crookedindifference, Posted by crookedindifference. Filed under: #environment #sustainability #pollution #waste #industrial waste #killoff #science #dead zones #mojo #mother jones #pew environment group #wapo #washington post
crookedindifference: Your Chicken Nuggets Are Killing Your Crab Cakes Every year in the Chesapeake Bay, an algae bloom spreads out, sucking oxygen out of the water and destroying fish habitat. This year’s “dead zone” stretches from Baltimore Harbor to south of the Potomac River, the Washington Post reports. It’s on track to become the bay’s largest ever. Already, fully a third of the bay—once one of the globe’s most productive fisheries—is incapable of supporting sea life. Why such huge dead zones this year? The immediate cause is heavy rains in both the Midwest and the Northeast, which wash vast amounts of nutrients down streams and rivers and into the sea at key river delta areas like the Chesapeake and the Gulf. There, the nutrients provide a feast for algae, and voilà, dead zones. But the ultimate source of the nitrogen and phosphorus that feed the algae blooms is industrial agriculture: millions of acres of fertilizer-guzzling corn farms in the Mississippi River watershed and massive concentrations of chicken farms right on the banks of the Chesapeake. As for the Chesapeake, Pew Environment Group has just released a major report called Big Chicken (PDF) that demonstrates the poultry industry’s devastating impact on the bay.

crookedindifference:

Your Chicken Nuggets Are Killing Your Crab Cakes

Every year in the Chesapeake Bay, an algae bloom spreads out, sucking oxygen out of the water and destroying fish habitat. This year’s “dead zone” stretches from Baltimore Harbor to south of the Potomac River, the Washington Post reports. It’s on track to become the bay’s largest ever. Already, fully a third of the bay—once one of the globe’s most productive fisheries—is incapable of supporting sea life.

Why such huge dead zones this year? The immediate cause is heavy rains in both the Midwest and the Northeast, which wash vast amounts of nutrients down streams and rivers and into the sea at key river delta areas like the Chesapeake and the Gulf. There, the nutrients provide a feast for algae, and voilà, dead zones.

But the ultimate source of the nitrogen and phosphorus that feed the algae blooms is industrial agriculture: millions of acres of fertilizer-guzzling corn farms in the Mississippi River watershed and massive concentrations of chicken farms right on the banks of the Chesapeake.

As for the Chesapeake, Pew Environment Group has just released a major report called Big Chicken (PDF) that demonstrates the poultry industry’s devastating impact on the bay.

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