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A New View of the Moon

We took a telescope around the streets of Los Angeles to give strangers an up-close look at a familiar object; a new view of the moon. Music: Clair de Lune by…

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Natural Materials Organized into Precise Geometric Shapes by Kristen Meyer

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Pinecones of the world. . . . . . #pinecone #display #botanical #conifer #labels (at Průhonický park a zámek - Botanický ústav AV ČR)

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Lake Michigan after the rain. . . . . . #lakemichigan #chicago #alderplanetarium #lakeshore #waves #stormy #skyline (at The Adler Planetarium)

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Til next time...👂🏼 . . . . . #gloucesterma #atlantic #oceanatnight #summer #laborday #fullmoon #moonlight (at Gloucester Harbor)

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These chamomile flowers from an outdoor baby shower today! Such a beautiful structure! #chamomille #flowers #summer #naturaldesign (at Portland, Maine)

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Ok this day was just so lovely. . . . . . #gloucester #atlanticocean #northshore #ocean #atlantic #gloucesterma #horizon #goodharbor #newengland #sunandsand #sand #windyday #sunshine #winterbeach (at Good Harbor Beach)

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More of this lovely morning at Wingaersheek. 🔊👂🏼🌧👌🏼 . . . . . #rainyday #rain #soundofrain #summerrain #beach #wingaersheekbeach #gloucesterma #beachday #saltwater #gloucester #gray (at Wingaersheek Beach)

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Seriously? These peonies were unreal. #pfingstrosen #peonies #flowersofinstagram #blumen #seamickdeutsch #winterfeldtmarkt (at Winterfeldtplatz)

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The nuns at Our Lady of Mississippi Abbey say that by taking a vow of stability, they are “resisting all temptation to escape the truth about ourselves by restless movement from one place to the next.” ... Terry Pratchett says, “Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”  ... Wanderlust is never truly quenched—as C.S. Lewis famously penned, “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.” ... Trappist monk Thomas Merton says this about Benedictine monks: “Stability becomes difficult for a man whose monastic ideal contains some note, some element of the extraordinary. All monasteries are more or less ordinary. Its ordinariness is one of its greatest blessings.” ... It’s courageous to walk out the front door and embrace earth’s great adventures. But the real act of courage is to return to that door, turn the knob, walk through, unpack the bags, and start the kettle for a cup of tea.

Tsh Oxenreider, reflections from At Home in the World

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Aerial Shots of the Bright and Colorful Goods Sold by Street Vendors in Vietnam by Photographer Loes Heerink

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WATCH: A Behind-the-Scenes Timelapse Captures the Extraordinary Physical Labor for the New Stop Motion Film ‘Kubo and the Two Strings’ [video]

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WATCH: A Fascinating Film About the Last Day of Hot Metal Typesetting at the New York Times [video]

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Emojis were supposed to be the great equalizer: a language all its own capable of transcending borders and cultural differences.

Not so fast, say a group of researchers who found that different people had vastly different interpretations of some popular emojis. The researchers published their findings for GroupLens, a research lab based out of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

“I think some people thought that they could use [emojis] with little risk and what we found is that it actually is at high risk of miscommunication,” Hannah Miller, a Ph.D. student at the University of Minnesota and one of the authors of the study, said in a phone interview.

Lost In Translation: Study Finds Interpretation Of Emojis Can Vary Widely

Image: grouplens

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https://books.google.com/books?id=iLwZAAAAYAAJ&lpg=RA1-PA310&dq=%E2%80%9CFailure%20after%20long%20perseverance%20is%20much%20grander%20than%20never%20to%20have%20a%20striving%20good%20enough%20to%20be%20called%20a%20failure.%E2%80%9D&pg=RA1-PA306#v=onepage&q&f=true

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