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The Geisel Library takes the inverted pyramid approach to the next level: William L. Pereira: Geisel Library, San Diego, CA, USA, 1968–1970 http://sosbrutalism.org/cms/15892279 Photo: Brazilfox 2012 (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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The Juno orbiter has sent back its first photo of Jupiter. And it’s awesome.

In it, you can clearly see the giant gas planet, as well as three of its moons, Io, Europa, and Ganymede. But to take this photo, Juno had take this eccentric path to sneak past the radiation.

Credit: NASA

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Last week’s baseball road trip included an evening at the Stanford Theater in Palo Alto, California, which was in the midst of a Barbara Stanwyck festival and was showing the double-feature of “Ball of Fire” and “Christmas in Connecticut.” At intermission, the Mighty Wurlitzer rises from the pit and entertains us while we buy real popcorn before the next film.

The Stanford Theater has been lovingly restored by David W. Packard (his dad was the Packard in Hewlett-Packard). It all started in 1987, just after Fred Astaire’s death, when he rented the closed-down movie house and showed all of Fred’s films. “Some people said that watching Fred Astaire in a real theater was pointless because everyone could see his films on late-night television. But our 1175-seat theater was sold out for two solid weeks. Many people came every night, and we got 700 fan letters.”

In 1992, more people saw “Casablanca” at this theater, to mark it’s 50th anniversary, than anywhere else in the world. Just last month, the theater had a Shirley Temple festival, to honor the memory of the beloved star who lived in nearby Woodside. The Christmas Eve showings of “It’s A Wonderful Life” are always sold out. The theater has a wonderful collection of vintage movie posters in the lobby.

If you’re anywhere near the Palo Alto/Stanford/San Jose/Silicon Valley area, check the schedule and stop by!

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Sheep with a view. From Arnafjord by the Sognefjord. Vik in Sogn, Norway. Photo: @norwegianfjords - www.fjords.com (ved Arnafjord, Sogn Og Fjordane, Norway)

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Distant Crab Nebula

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Bison calves born this spring are growing quickly, building relationships and learning survival skills. Sometimes called “red dogs” because of their orange coats, bison calves are slowly becoming dark brown like their parents. Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa has a small herd of bison in a 700-acre enclosure and visitors can safely observe them from the visitor center or the auto route tour. Photo by Joanna Gilkeson, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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The incredible beauty of Yosemite Valley in California has deeply affected millions of people over time. Thanks to the foresight of a few of them, this stunning place was protected for public use and recreation for future generations. On this day in 1864, President Abraham Lincoln formally set aside the land that would later become Yosemite National Park and visitors have been enjoying it ever since. Photo by Kristopher Schoenleber (www.sharetheexperience.org).

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Curiosity Panorama – Sol 1314

Composite of 4 images acquired by Curiosity's Mastcam on mission Sol 1314 (April 17, 2016), at the edge of Naukluft Plateau in the Rasthoff region. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS. Edit by Jason Major.

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Regenstein Library, University of Chicago (1970)

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46 years later, this is still way too true

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Farming scene, Haga, Norway. by Bhalalhaika http://flic.kr/p/fhLEnL

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Floating Away | Lofoten, Norway by v on life Paradise, this was.

This pano consists of 6 vertical shots. http://flic.kr/p/B8npfQ

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Pendulum of the Planets by CircleArt

This version is 700 x 700 x 128 to fit within the Tumblr 2 Meg. file size constraint (soooooooooo tight). A high-res version 1200 x 1200 X 256 is available here: https://monegraph.com/m7767645170 for $1.

[kllaw]

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The contradiction of continuity is that what is essential for survival outside the wire, to see that next sun, is nonessential inside; an elevator that goes up, goes down, but one that goes down, may not go up. I wish I had the key that would lock that door, or that I knew where to find it; the control mechanism, that mechanism with which I control if and when I need to use these responses.

[kllaw]

I hope that somewhere, in the recesses of your mind, you can hear me, even if only a whisper. And Hvis stjernene var tilhører meg, ville jeg rive dem ned og gi dem til deg.

[kllaw]

Those months, years, were just days on the calendar; just days; days like so many, mundane in their occurrence, a routine chaos. A cold February Tuesday in K-Valley, turned to a searing sun by August. Rapid crackling, enveloped in thunder or mortars, or something, under a wet April sky on the western ridge. Those days, separated by time, by place, by years; but now rattle as one, all of those days; as one cacophony of chaos. It won’t go.