Space X Capsule Docks at Space Station
“High above northwestern Australia, a robotic arm on the International Space Station grabbed onto a cargo capsule floating 10 meters away.
With that simple act, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation of Hawthorne, Calif., or SpaceX, made history as the first private company to send a spacecraft to the space station.”
Lord Byron, on the paradox of being original and combining previous influences. A crisis of any creator, artistic or scientific.
Maria Popova assembles a masterful collection of advice to reconcile this paradox: The Art of Scientific Investigation (1957), Part I: The Role of Openness and Serendipity in Creativity and Discovery
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Medicinal Plants
Beautiful shots of human anatomy via plants, by Sarah Illenberger. Head to Illenberger’s website for more in this series.
Photography by Ragnar Schmuck.
South Dakota is awesome. No bias here though ;)
“In 2005, I set out to photograph my home state of South Dakota, a sparsely populated frontier state on the Great Plains with more buffalo, pronghorn, coyotes, mule deer, ring-necked pheasants and prairie dogs than people. It’s a landscape dominated by space and silence and solitude, by brutal wind and extreme weather. I was trying to capture a more intimate and personal view of the West. I was trying to capture what all that space feels like to someone who grew up there. A year into the project, however, everything changed. One of my brothers died unexpectedly. For months, one of the few things that eased my unsettled heart was the landscape of South Dakota. It seemed all I could do was drive through the badlands and prairies and photograph. I began to wonder: Does loss have its own geography?”
No joke, after watching three episodes of Warehouse 13, I now want to take a trip to the Badlands in South Dakota.
Yep. There will be an exhibition game between the US and England at the beginning of the olympics! :)
This is a safe assumption.
(Source: voldemortoutbitches)
I’m a long-time non-believer, but the times when I question my lack of faith are when I consider the complexity of this world. To me, it is as unfathomable as a divine being.
Dear Einstein, Do Scientists Pray?
A young girl named Phyllis wrote to Einstein in 1936 on behalf of her Sunday School class, asking if scientists pray. He wrote her back.
An excerpt from his response (read the whole letter here):
… everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man. In this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort, which is surely quite different from the religiosity of someone more naive.
To me, he is capturing that combined, intangible feeling of curiosity and discovery. I think he viewed the awareness that our world is ruled by natural laws as a constant “spirit” in itself, and one that he could access at will. Maybe not traditional religion, but an idea that I think we can all agree is worth exploring.
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