Walid Damouny

tumbling along

[waliddamouny]

A collection of more than 700 88x31 web buttons from the 1990's and 2000's.

[nasa]

Boo! Did we get you? 🎃

This solar jack-o-lantern, captured by our Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in October 2014, gets its ghoulish grin from active regions on the Sun, which emit more light and energy than the surrounding dark areas. Active regions are markers of an intense and complex set of magnetic fields hovering in the sun’s atmosphere.

The SDO has kept an unblinking eye on the Sun since 2010, recording phenomena like solar flares and coronal loops. It measures the Sun’s interior, atmosphere, magnetic field, and energy output, helping us understand our nearest star.

Grab the high-resolution version here.

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[agoodcartoon]

these parody accounts are getting out of hand

[newyorker]

Greek and Roman statues were often painted, but for centuries, archeologists and museum curators had been scrubbing away these traces of color before presenting statues and architectural reliefs to the public. Now, scholars are making a color correction.

Read the full story, “The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture,” here. 

[waliddamouny]

We always learn something new especially from the past.

[waliddamouny]

What is a Devil's Garden and How is it formed?

[waliddamouny]

Have you heard ‘Cycle Of Silence (2010)’ by Frøy Aagre on SoundCloud?

[waliddamouny]

Photographers are so apt at capturing moments and distorting others

(via Photos of the weekend - The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com)

[waliddamouny]

Gravitational Waves have been detected :) via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7293kAiPZw

[thebeautifulcosmos]

[waliddamouny]

Don't mess with women, especially if they're wearing boxing gloves.

Pro-Rape Meet-Up Canceled Over ‘Safety Concerns’ -- The Cut

[waliddamouny]

Sneaking a friend into a movie theater while dressed as one person

Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet.

[waliddamouny]

Video from the Smithsonian’s National Zoo (also known as the National Zoological Park) shows Tian Tian the giant panda enjoying the new layer of snow in his Giant Panda Habitat

(via Giant panda enjoys the snow in Washington DC zoo – video | World news | The Guardian)

[waliddamouny]

Meanwhile inside the Millenium Falcon

[waliddamouny]

John Brennan has cast blame on Snowden for the terrorist attacks in France, but logic says otherwise.

Don’t Blame Edward Snowden for the Paris Attacks - The New Yorker

[lessig]

Dave Cascino (of Thunderclap.it fame) saw this in North Brooklyn near the border of Williamsburg and Greenpoint.  

[indypendenthistory]

The Only Ancient Egyptian Document that Mentions Israel (1,209 BCE – 1,208 BCE)

In 1896 W. M. Flinders Petrie discovered the Merneptah Stele — also known as the Israel Stele or Victory Stele of Merneptah — in the first court of Merneptah’s mortuary temple at Thebes. It is inscribed on the reverse of a large granite stele originally erected by the Ancient Egyptian king Amenhotep III, but later inscribed by Merneptah who ruled Egypt from 1213 to 1203 BC. The black granite stele primarily commemorates a victory in a campaign against the Libu and Meshwesh Libyans and their Sea People allies, but its final two lines refer to a prior military campaign in Canaan in which Merneptah states that he defeated Ashkelon, Gezer, Yanoam and Israel among others. It is preserved in the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo.

[indypendenthistory]

Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 26, 1910. Her family was of Albanian descent. At the age of twelve, she felt strongly the call of God. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India.When she took her vows as a Sister of Loretto, she chose the name Teresa after Saint Thérèse of Lisieux. (via Early Years of Mother Teresa)