Yes Let’s Replace And Travel The World.

Travel can make you a poet. Travel can be spiritual. You meet people on the road you’d never met otherwise. Travelling rearranges your cultural furniture, challenging truths you assumed were self-evident and God-given. By traveling, you learn not only about the people and places you visit–you learn about yourself.

Rick Steves (via fatfashfem)

Plotting our next adventure.

12 Social Media Marketing Mistakes To Avoid!

Here are some of the common mistakes that marketers make on social media. But the good news is these mistakes can be avoided through strategic treatment of every day social media postings and campaigns.

Find out more on Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/AyeshaAmbreen/12-social-media-marketing-mistakes-to-steer-clear-of

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

Jim Henson (via quotemadness)

This week, privacy is on everyone’s minds. After the FBI demanded Apple assist in breaking into an iPhone, internet and phone users everywhere are wondering about how secure their digital interactions are. Digital Editor Natalie DiBlasio sat down with David Gorodyansky, CEO of AnchorFree, a company that makes the personal VPN called Hotspot Shield that was used to circumvent censorship during the Arab Spring in Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt. He has some tips on protecting your internet privacy. (USA TODAY Tech)

Navigate the Jungle of Tech Ecosystems

How Apple, Google and Microsoft are racing to control your digital life—from phone to home-automation system

Which digital ecosystem will you choose?

Physicists have finally figured out why these massive ice discs start spinning on their own

New physics from a 100-year-old mystery.

New physics doesn’t always come from the recesses of space or the bowels of the Large Hadron Collider. Sometimes, you just need some cameras, a nickel bead, a magnet, and Petri dish popsicles.

Every once in a while, someone notices a big disc of ice eerily spinning in a river. These discs can be anywhere from 1 to 200 metres across, and almost everything about them has mystified physicists and environmental scientists for over a century. While it’s thought that this rare natural phenomenon is likely was caused by cold, dense air coming in contact with an eddy in a river, no one’s been able to definitively explain why these giant discs continue to rotate as they melt. Until now.

The most common explanation for the spinning ice discs says that as the discs float along in a river, they’re spun around by eddies - little spinning currents that form when water flows over rocks or into an enclosed space. And while this is this is probably part of what’s happening, it can’t be the whole story.

Solar System: 5 Things To Know This Week

We live during one of the great eras of exploration. At this very moment, there are dozens of spacecraft surveying the solar system, from Mars, to Saturn, to Pluto and beyond. What’s more, you can ride along with these expeditions — all you need is an internet connection to see the latest discoveries from deep space. Here are a few essential resources for the armchair astronaut:

1. It’s Like Facebook, but for Planets

Or is it more of a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Solar System? Whatever you want to call it, our Planets page offers quick rundowns, as well as in-depth guides, for all the major bodies in the solar system. Explore from the sun all they way out to the Oort Cloud.

2. Robots to the Rescue

Saturn looks spectacular through a telescope, but there’s only so much you can learn about it from the ground. Going there in person is tough, too. While we are now preparing to send astronauts beyond Earth orbit, a human mission to Saturn won’t be possible in the near future. That’s where the space robots come in. For example, the Cassini spacecraft studies Saturn and its moons up close, sometimes even doing things like flying right through the geyser plumes of the ice moon Enceladus. See all the solar system missions, past and present, where they went and what they’ve seen HERE.

3. Keep Your Eyes on This One

If you still haven’t tried Eyes on the Solar System, you’re missing out. This online simulation lets you tour the planets and track the past, current and future positions of spacecraft — right in your web browser, all in 3D. Eyes on the Solar System uses real NASA data to help you take a virtual flight across both space and time.

4. Images in the Raw

You don’t have to wait for a news release to see pictures from planetary missions. Some missions allow you to see raw, unprocessed images sent straight from the spacecraft. What these images lack in explanatory captions they make up for in freshness — sometimes you can see pictures from Mars or Saturn that are mere hours old. There’s something exhilarating about being among the first human beings ever to see an alien landscape. Peruse our new raw image pages HERE.

5. Bring It On Home

After you’ve toured the far reaches of the solar system, you can always come home again. When you have spent time studying the harsh conditions of our neighboring planets, the charms of a unique paradise come into sharp focus, the place we call Earth. Watch a real-time video feed from Earth orbit HERE. You can also see a daily global view of our planet from a million miles away HERE. Download THIS Earth Now mobile app to hold the planet in your hands.

Want to learn more? Read our full list of the 10 things to know this week about the solar system HERE.

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Consumer Awareness Grows Over the Internet

Earned media such as Google search, social media and online articles/content are the only growing influencers of consumer product awareness, according to Nielsen. 

No growth in consumer purchase awareness across paid and owned media like TV, newspaper, paid advertising and in-store or brand web content.

Michelle Corsano Pellettier

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Stephen Hawking (via quotemadness)