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"The world of melancholia was humid, heavy, and cold; that of mania was parched, dry, compounded of violence and fragility." Michel Foucault.

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#MarRef: Yes Equality, The Campaign for Civil Marriage Equality

I made a cameo appearance as a member of the Yes Equality Social Media/Comms team in the last two months of the campaign. On occasion my role crossed over with the communications team in a number of areas. Yes Equality team with the Tanaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) Joan Burton TD and Alex White TD Minister for Communications in Campaign HQ (That’s me making shape in the Blue ‘TÁ T-Shirt’) When I…

#MarRef: Yes Equality, The Campaign for Civil Marriage Equality

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Everything You Need to Know About the Aug. 21 Eclipse

On Aug. 21, all of North America will experience a solar eclipse.

If skies are clear, eclipse-watchers will be able to see a partial solar eclipse over several hours, and some people – within the narrow path of totality – will see a total solar eclipse for a few moments.

How to Watch

It’s never safe to look at the Sun, and an eclipse is no exception. During a partial eclipse (or on any regular day) you must use special solar filters or an indirect viewing method to watch the Sun.

If you have solar viewing glasses, check to make sure they’re safe and undamaged before using them to look at the Sun. Make sure you put them on before looking up at the Sun, and look away before removing them. Eclipse glasses can be used over your regular eyeglasses, but they should never be used when looking through telescopes, binoculars, camera viewfinders, or any other optical device.

If you don’t have eclipse glasses, you can still watch the eclipse indirectly! You can make a pinhole projector out of a box, or use any other object with tiny holes – like a piece of cardstock with a hole, or your outstretched, interlaced fingers – to project an image of the partially eclipsed Sun onto the ground.

Of course, if it’s cloudy (or you’d just rather stay inside), you can watch the whole thing online with us at nasa.gov/eclipselive. Tune in starting at noon ET.

If you’re in the path of totality, there will be a few brief moments when it is safe to look directly at the eclipse. Only once the Moon has completely covered the Sun and there is no light shining through is it safe to look at the eclipse. Make sure you put your eclipse glasses back on or return to indirect viewing before the first flash of sunlight appears around the Moon’s edge.

Why do eclipses happen?

A solar eclipse happens when the Moon passes directly between the Sun and Earth, casting its shadow down on Earth’s surface. The path of totality – where the Moon completely covers the Sun – is traced out by the Moon’s inner shadow, the umbra. People within the Moon’s outer shadow, the penumbra, can see a partial eclipse.

The Moon’s orbit around Earth is tilted by about five degrees, meaning that its shadow usually doesn’t fall on Earth. Only when the Moon lines up exactly between the Sun and Earth do we see an eclipse.

Though the Sun is about 400 times wider than the Moon, it is also about 400 times farther away, making their apparent sizes match up almost exactly. This is what allows the Moon to block out the Sun’s bright face, while revealing the comparatively faint, pearly-white corona.

The Science of Eclipses

Eclipses are a beautiful sight to see, and they’re also helpful for our scientists, so we’re funding eleven ground-based science investigations to learn more about the Sun and Earth.

Total solar eclipses reveal the innermost regions of the Sun’s atmosphere, the corona. Though it’s thought to house the processes that kick-start much of the space weather that can influence Earth, as well as heating the whole corona to extraordinarily high temperatures, we can’t study this region at any other time. This is because coronagraphs – the instruments we use to study the Sun’s atmosphere by creating artificial eclipses – must cover up much of the corona, as well as the Sun’s face in order to produce clear images.

Eclipses also give us the chance to study Earth’s atmosphere under uncommon conditions: the sudden loss of solar radiation from within the Moon’s shadow. We’ll be studying the responses of both Earth’s ionosphere – the region of charged particles in the upper atmosphere – and the lower atmosphere.

Learn all about the Aug. 21 eclipse at eclipse2017.nasa.gov, and follow @NASASun on Twitter and NASA Sun Science on Facebook for more. Watch the eclipse through the eyes of NASA at nasa.gov/eclipselive starting at 12 PM ET on Aug. 21. 

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space: http://nasa.tumblr.com

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French grande for TRAFIC (Jacques Tati, France/Italy, 1971)

Designer: uncredited

Poster source: Heritage Auctions

See more posters from Tati’s TRAFIC at Movie Poster of the Week.

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Armoured up #yesequality #marref #marriageequality #makegráthelaw

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'Red Rag To A Bull' Year 4 Fashion Project 2011 #design #research #development #sketchbook #fabric #swatches #rebelheart 😉

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Quick #sketch #design #illustration #fashion #dublin #justnow

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#workedition #degree #collection #ShowDownInNeoTokyo #design #fashion #dublin not #lfw #oscars etc

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candy explosion

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The vortex is close. Coded in Processing. 50 frames. _Related: Spiral, Circular.

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Supercomputer Visualizes Action At Milky Way’s Center

These gifs show the orbits of stars around a black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The orbits helped to uncover the existence of the black hole, which sits around 25,000 light years away from Earth and is estimated to have 4 million times the mass of our sun. 

The gifs were created from a 3-D visualization made by the University of Illinois National Center for Supercomputing using observations taken by telescopes at the W. M. Keck Observatory between 1995 and 2012. Read more about the work here and here.

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Rebecca Minkoff - Fall 2015

(From: http://samcannon.tumblr.com/post/111005942173/rebecca-minkoff-fall-2015)

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"#Irish and in #love" #Make yes not war #Makelovecount, Vote #yes to #love #makegráthelaw #MarriageEquality #referendum #ref15 PLEASE LIKE AND #SHARE

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"Dial #Éire For #Love" The #Irish for #love is #yes, #Makelovecount #makegráthelaw #MarriageEquality #referendum #ref15 PLEASE LIKE AND #SHARE

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The #Irish for #love is #yes, Make love count, Vote yes to love #makegráthelaw #MarriageEquality #referendum #ref15 PLEASE LIKE AND #SHARE

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#digital #love #daftpunk #still #interstellar5555 #justnow #dublin

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#ShareTheLove for Marriage Equality this #Valentines. Help make History! Donate at www.marriagequality.ie/donate RT http://thndr.it/1CBxVnQ