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The Span of 30 Doradus - A Nearby Galaxy
Also known as the Tarantula nebula, 30 Doradus is a region of the Large Magellanic Cloud (a nearby irregular galaxy and a satellite of the Milky Way) and is one of the most active areas of star formation in the night sky.
Image: UT/CTIO Magellanic Cloud Emission Line Survey [high-resolution]
ON THIS DAY: 1969 – At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the photo that becomes the cover of the Beatles album Abbey Road, one of the most famous album covers in recording history.
Alfred Eisenstaedt’s picture of a mother and child in the wasteland of 1945 Hiroshima is not a political or a philosophical or an ideological photograph. It simply, quietly commands us to pay attention.
Continue reading here.
(Alfred Eisenstaedt—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Today is the 68th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing.
August 6:Â Happy Birthday Lucille Ball!
On this day in 1911, comedian, actress, and model Lucille Ball was born in New York. Ball stared in the hit television show, I Love Lucy, and became one of the most lovable comedians in the 1950’s. Lucille Ball died on April 26,1989 only 4 months after her last public appearance at the 61st Academy Awards.Â
Trace the late television legend’s ground breaking career with this American Masters’ timeline
Photo: Lucille Ball, 1945 (Wiki Commons)
Definitely a badass chick.
The Legend of The Oregon Trail: How three teachers changed the gaming industry from inside a janitor’s closet.
Who doesn't love The Oregon Trail?
Caterpillar of Feathers
Here’s a fantastic optical illusion courtesy of mother nature. What looks like a vibrantly colored caterpillar perched on a tree limb is actually photographer José Luis RodrÃguez’s chance encounter with nine European Bee-eaters, a species of beautiful, brightly colored birds. The photographer named the image Oruga de Plumas, which translates roughly to “Caterpillar of Feathers".
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It's so fluffy!
Nations that span more than one continent.
Laws of Nature.
Translations.
Warped straight into my heart.
‘Cause we are living in a bacterial world, and I am a bacterial girl.
(Not to mention protists, archaea, fungi and mites!)
Original comic here.
And your microbial friends do a lot to keep your immune system in balance and keep you healthy, as NPR reported last week.
Well, I feel better now.
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz photographed outside their home with their children, 1954
From NPR’s Robert Krulwich: It’s high summer, yes, but blink and soon it will be fall, and trees will turn red, brown, beige, yellow, pale green and gold. But not cars. Cars may be making the Earth warmer, but their colors, I notice, have turned wintry.
Take a look at this chart (top), put together by DuPont. It’s their 2012 Automotive Global Color Popularity Report for the planet.
The trend is mostly the same in North America, but things seems to change in other large countries.
Read the rest of the story on Krulwich Wonders.
(Charts courtesy of DuPont)
I've always wondered why there weren't more purple cars.
Ostracon
19th Dynasty
1240 BC
Ostracon with register of attendance at work. Labelled ‘Year 40’ of Ramses II, it provides a workmen’s register for 280 days of the year. There are twenty-four lines of Late Egyptian hieratic on the front and twenty-one lines on the back. A list of forty names is arranged in columns on the right edge of each side, followed to the left by dates written in black in a horizontal line. Above most dates is a word or phrase in red, indicating the reason why this individual was absent from work on that date.
(Source: The British Museum)
So basically, ancient timesheets. Some things never change.
July 26, 1775: U.S. Postal System is Established
On this day in 1775, the United States postal system was created by the Second Continental Congress. Benjamin Franklin was appointed as the first Postmaster General. Benjamin, who had previously been postmaster of Philadelphia, was responsible for all Post Offices — from Massachusetts to Georgia — and had authority to hire as many workers as needed.
Upon his departure in 1776, he left a vastly improved mail system, with routes from Florida to Maine and regular service between the U.S and Britain. Â
Visit the Benjamin Franklin site to learn more about the Man of Letters.
Photo: (1)Â Interior of a post office showing post office boxes and an postmaster greeting two children and a woman c. 1901 (Library of Congress)Â (2) Benjamin Franklin, 1783 (Library of Congress).
Wonder what Franklin would have thought about email.
Never Apologize for Selfies: Renaissance artist style. Used in this video.
Robert Cornelius, the autumn of 1839. This was likely the first photographed self-portrait.
From The Library of Congress.
In which we argue that selfies started in the Renaissance. Yes, we’re serious. Hear us out on this one.
