My sadness over the death of the space shuttle program is that I consider it the last bastion of scientific discovery in this country. Targeted research gets all the attention now, but great discoveries are rarely targeted. Penicillin and x-rays were not; the fact is...
"There you go, man. Keep as cool as you can. Face piles of trials with smiles. It riles them to believe that you perceive the web they weave. Keep on thinking free…" We heard those words in 1969. I was 11, you 15. You had one of those cheesy record players, remember...
via adventure.howstuffworks.com What's the most remote inhabited location on Earth? A place called Tristan da Cunha. The approximately 270 residents of this archipelago see a mail ship only once a year
You’re a really hard worker Your time is poorly managed You don’t know what to do with your life Your boss knows you’re gullible At least 40% of your diet consists of pre-packaged food You send out work emails at inappropriate hours You have no perspective on life...
Note: The poem was written in January, 2005 after having received for Christmas a few weeks earlier a binder filled with hundreds of digitized family photos. There's something about seeing one's parents not as you remember them, but rather as they were from a time long...
via gizmodo.com Don't think a cellphone can take a good picture? These photos show it's much more than megapixels, aperture, etc. It's about having an eye for composition, and also about being there at the right moment. All the pictures are works from a cellphone...
