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from an interview with Christopher Nolan by his brother via In Contention

Not clear whether he sketched them, or whether they were just illustrations he included in a folio of his other astronomical work. "In...

The full moon will pass through Earth's shadow, changing from gray to a rusty, red color. Why red? NASA describes it this way: A quick ...

Why I'm an athiest. via WSJ

Click on the image to see the whole thing. via National Geographic

From the Facebook Blog

Paper's conclusion: Although effective obesity prevention leads to a decrease in costs of obesity-related diseases, this decrease is o...

No comment necessary -- this is just great all by itself.

A machine waiting to be used as a metaphor for something.

I like this because it reminds me how articulate young people can be, and resets the bar where it should be.

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” via The Positivity Blog

Good advice on giving appropriate information in a kind way after an interview. via Nathan Marz .

While the letter itself is very moving, I'm more interested in the comment that "this particular letter never reaches Hitler due ...

"Give hackers an inch and they'll take you a mile." From Paul Graham's column on tablets .

Another thing we learned was that… Another thing we learned was… We also learned that… We also learned… We learned… From 37Signals

Interesting column from Thomas Friedman about the loss of American leverage due to our reliance on foreign oil and the ownership of our deb...

Remote control plane flies over Brooklyn and Statue of Liberty.

At first I couldn't figure out how the sun was casting a shadow from the contrail up to the cirrus clouds above it. The angle just seem...

It looks like the beginning of Minority Report where Tom Cruise is drugged up and looking at the 3D image of his son extrapolated from the...