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I'm going to miss this place #Baza1Excavation2016 🐘 (at Baza)

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Charlie Chaplin in The Gold Rush (1925)

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The Dunhill tobacco and pipe shop was destroyed during an air raid in London during WWII. Undeterred, Alfred Dunhill Jr. set up a table in front of the ruined building and continued to sell pipes.

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Three Earth-like planets discovered orbiting dwarf star

While we haven’t officially found life beyond Earth, scientists have discovered three planets orbiting in the “habitable zone” of a small star outside our solar system that could hold potential for extraterrestrial life.

The habitable zone, also known as the “Goldilocks zone,” is the area around a host star where the temperature allows for water in liquid form — an essential ingredient to life as we know it — to exist on a planet.

For reference, the habitable zone in our solar system is just between Venus and Mars, as their proximity from the sun potentially allows for water, energy and organic molecules to exist.

While the researchers presume that the three planets possess habitable regions on their surfaces, they are still determining whether other factors, such as the planets’ clouds and/or atmosphere, could make them truly suitable for life.

In the words of Adam Burgasser (a UC San Diego astronomer who helped make the discovery) to the San Diego Union-Tribune: "I think this discovery allows us to broaden our thinking a bit about the environments (in which) life might emerge.”

Image: ESO/M. Kornmesser/Nature

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For years, I opened my 11th-grade U.S. history classes by asking students, “What’s the name of that guy they say discovered America?” A few students might object to the word “discover,” but they all knew the fellow I was talking about. “Christopher Columbus!” several called out in unison. “Right. So who did he find when he came here?” I asked. Usually, a few students would say, “Indians,” but I asked them to be specific: “Which nationality? What are their names?” Silence. In more than 30 years of teaching U.S. history and guest-teaching in others’ classes, I’ve never had a single student say, “Taínos.” So I ask them to think about that fact. “How do we explain that? We all know the name of the man who came here from Europe, but none of us knows the name of the people who were here first—and there were hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of them. Why haven’t you heard of them?” This ignorance is an artifact of historical silencing—rendering invisible the lives and stories of entire peoples.

Rethinking Columbus: Towards a True People’s History by Bill Bigelow (via bestoffates)