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22 Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Totally Differently From Each Other

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:01:14 -0700

22 Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Totally Differently From Each Other:

Small lobsters are tearing this nation apart. ;

staceythinx: Some of the worthy winners of the annual...

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 21:14:03 -0700

Some of the worthy winners of the annual Princeton Art of Science competition. Check out the full gallery for image descriptions and more amazing art.

kqedscience: The First Images of Molecules Breaking and...

Fri, 31 May 2013 14:49:07 -0700

kqedscience:

The First Images of Molecules Breaking and Reforming Chemical Bonds

“Microscopy is advancing in leaps and bounds these days. It was just last week that scientists produced the first image of a hydrogen atom’s orbital structure. Not to be outdone, Berkeley chemists have now captured a series of images showing molecules as they break and reform their chemical bonds.”

ikenbot: The Annular eclipse painter, Taiwan

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:49:38 -0700

ikenbot:

The Annular eclipse painter, Taiwan

wadeangeliart: Kiwi Bird Poster, Scientific Illustration, 2013,...

Sat, 11 May 2013 15:58:21 -0700

wadeangeliart:

Kiwi Bird Poster, Scientific Illustration, 2013, watercolor and digital

discoverynews: insiderimages: The final piece of the spire at...

Fri, 10 May 2013 16:44:23 -0700

discoverynews:

insiderimages:

The final piece of the spire at One World Trade Center is lifted into place in New York, May 10, 2013. The tower now rises to a symbolic 1776 feet, making it the tallest building in the western hemisphere. INSIDER IMAGES/Gary He (UNITED STATES)

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Beautiful skyline.

kateoplis: 19 Emotions For Which English Has No Words

Thu, 09 May 2013 20:05:32 -0700

kateoplis:

19 Emotions For Which English Has No Words

What if the other planets were as close as the moon? (An...

Tue, 07 May 2013 20:08:10 -0700

What if the other planets were as close as the moon? (An illustration) — McSki

Audi ad with both Spocks xD

Tue, 07 May 2013 13:07:38 -0700

Audi ad with both Spocks xD

ilovecharts: lovecraft : scienceisbeauty: Are you suffering a...

Mon, 06 May 2013 10:22:25 -0700

ilovecharts:

lovecraft : scienceisbeauty:

Are you suffering a long Monday? Click the image to put the concept of time in context and relieve this pain by yourself.

More: exploringtime.org

generic-nerdfighter-blog: 17 Rants in 4 Minutes - x

Sat, 04 May 2013 12:48:38 -0700

generic-nerdfighter-blog:

17 Rants in 4 Minutes - x

edwardspoonhands: science-junkie: Twenty Years Ago Today the...

Thu, 02 May 2013 12:37:14 -0700

edwardspoonhands:

science-junkie:

Twenty Years Ago Today the World Wide Web Went Public

Twenty years ago today, something happened that changed the digital world forever: CERN published a statement that made the technology behind the World Wide Web available to use, by anybody, on a royalty free basis.

That decision, pushed forward by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, transformed the internet, making it a place where we can all freely share anything and everything—from social media updates, through streamed music, to YouTube videos of cats. It has fundamentally shaped the way we communicate.

To celebrate the momentous occasion of 20 years ago, CERN—the same guys behind all those experiments at the Large Hadron Collider—has republished its very first website at its original URL. It’s not much to look at—but it’s a fine reminder of just how much the web has changed in the past twenty years.

In fact, the republishing of that site is part of a broader project to excavate and preserve a whole host of digital gems that remain from the inception of the web. You can go read a lot more about the project over on CERN’s site.

It is super weird to me that I am older than the internet.

laboratoryequipment: World’s Smallest Movie is Made from...

Wed, 01 May 2013 12:49:43 -0700

laboratoryequipment:

World’s Smallest Movie is Made from Atoms

Scientists from IBM today unveiled the world’s smallest movie, made with one of the tiniest elements in the universe: atoms. Named “A Boy and His Atom,” the Guinness World Records-verified movie used thousands of precisely placed atoms to create nearly 250 frames of stop-motion action.

”A Boy and His Atom” depicts a character named Atom who befriends a single atom and goes on a playful journey that includes dancing, playing catch and bouncing on a trampoline. Set to a playful musical track, the movie represents a unique way to convey science outside the research community.

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2013/05/world%E2%80%99s-smallest-movie-made-atoms

discoverynews: PHOTOS: When Virgin Galactic Broke the Speed of...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:53:30 -0700

discoverynews:

PHOTOS: When Virgin Galactic Broke the Speed of Sound

Get immersed in these awesome supersonic shots of SpaceShipTwo… »

the-absolute-funniest-posts: This post has been featured on a...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:53:23 -0700

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This post has been featured on a 1000notes.com blog.

ikenbot: Albert Einstein, Civil Rights Activist Here’s...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:48:31 -0700

ikenbot:

Albert Einstein, Civil Rights Activist

Here’s something you probably don’t know about Albert Einstein.

Image:Einstein with the children of Lincoln University Faculty, May 3, 1946

In 1946, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist traveled to Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, the alma mater of Langston Hughes and Thurgood Marshall and the first school in America to grant college degrees to blacks. At Lincoln, Einstein gave a speech in which he called racism “a disease of white people,” and added, “I do not intend to be quiet about it.” He also received an honorary degree and gave a lecture on relativity to Lincoln students.

The reason Einstein’s visit to Lincoln is not better known is that it was virtually ignored by the mainstream press, which regularly covered Einstein’s speeches and activities. (Only the black press gave extensive coverage to the event.) Nor is there mention of the Lincoln visit in any of the major Einstein biographies or archives.

In fact, many significant details are missing from the numerous studies of Einstein’s life and work, most of them having to do with Einstein’s opposition to racism and his relationships with African Americans.

That these omissions need to be recognized and corrected is the contention of Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor, authors of “Einstein on Race and Racism” (Rutgers University Press, 2006). Jerome and Taylor spoke April 3 at an event sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. The event also featured remarks by Sylvester James Gates Jr., the John S. Toll Professor of Physics, University of Maryland.

According to Jerome and Taylor, Einstein’s statements at Lincoln were by no means an isolated case. Einstein, who was Jewish, was sensitized to racism by the years of Nazi-inspired threats and harassment he suffered during his tenure at the University of Berlin. Einstein was in the United States when the Nazis came to power in 1933, and, fearful that a return to Germany would place him in mortal danger, he decided to stay, accepting a position at the recently founded Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. He became an American citizen in 1940.

But while Einstein may have been grateful to have found a safe haven, his gratitude did not prevent him from criticizing the ethical shortcomings of his new home.

“Einstein realized that African Americans in Princeton were treated like Jews in Germany,” said Taylor. “The town was strictly segregated. There was no high school that blacks could go to until the 1940s.”

Einstein’s response to the racism and segregation he found in Princeton (Paul Robeson, who was born in Princeton, called it “the northernmost town in the South”) was to cultivate relationships in the town’s African-American community. Jerome and Taylor interviewed members of that community who still remember the white-haired, disheveled figure of Einstein strolling through their streets, stopping to chat with the inhabitants, and handing out candy to local children.

One woman remembered that Einstein paid the college tuition of a young man from the community. Another said that he invited Marian Anderson to stay at his home when the singer was refused a room at the Nassau Inn.

Einstein met Paul Robeson when the famous singer and actor came to perform at Princeton’s McCarter Theatre in 1935. The two found they had much in common. Both were concerned about the rise of fascism, and both gave their support to efforts to defend the democratically elected government of Spain against the fascist forces of Francisco Franco. Einstein and Robeson also worked together on the American Crusade to End Lynching, in response to an upsurge in racial murders as black soldiers returned home in the aftermath of World War II.

The 20-year friendship between Einstein and Robeson is another story that has not been told, Jerome said, but that omission may soon be rectified. A movie is in the works about the relationship, with Danny Glover slated to play Robeson and Ben Kingsley as Einstein.

Einstein continued to support progressive causes through the 1950s, when the pressure of anti-Communist witch hunts made it dangerous to do so. Another example of Einstein using his prestige to help a prominent African American occurred in 1951, when the 83-year-old W.E.B. Du Bois, a founder of the NAACP, was indicted by the federal government for failing to register as a “foreign agent” as a consequence of circulating the pro-Soviet Stockholm Peace Petition. Einstein offered to appear as a character witness for Du Bois, which convinced the judge to drop the case.

Gates, an African-American physicist who has appeared on the PBS show Nova, said that Einstein had been a hero of his since he learned about the theory of relativity as a teenager, but that he was unaware of Einstein’s ideas on civil rights until fairly recently.

Einstein’s approach to problems in physics was to begin by asking very simple, almost childlike questions, such as, “What would the world look like if I could drive along a beam of light?” Gates said.

“He must have developed his ideas about race through a similar process. He was capable of asking the question, ‘What would my life be like if I were black?’”

Gates said that thinking about Einstein’s involvement with civil rights has prompted him to speculate on the value of affirmative action and the goal of diversity it seeks to bring about. There are many instances in which the presence of strength and resilience in a system can be attributed to diversity.

“In the natural world, for example, when a population is under the influence of a stressful environment, diversity ensures its survival,” Gates said.

On a cultural level, the global influence of American popular music might be attributed to the fact that it is an amalgam of musical traditions from Europe and Africa.

These examples have led him to conclude that “diversity actually matters, independent of the moral argument.” Gates said he believes “there is a science of diversity out there waiting for scholars to discover it.”

edwardspoonhands: knowledgethroughscience: Mount Etna blows a...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:21:08 -0700

edwardspoonhands:

knowledgethroughscience:

Mount Etna blows a smoke ring during volcanic eruptions.

Gandalf…?

fer1972: Know were you stand: Modern Day Locations blended...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:09:48 -0700

fer1972:

Know were you stand: Modern Day Locations blended with Major Historical Events by Seth Taras

1. The Hindenberg Disaster of May 6, 1937

2. Allied soldiers rushing the beach at Normandy in June 1944

3. The Fall of the Berlin wall in 1989

4. Adolf Hitler touring Paris and standing in front of the Eiffel Tower in 1940

Video

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:47:36 -0700

Richard Feynman on the Scientific Method

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 13:55:19 -0700

Richard Feynman on the Scientific Method