An Atlas V Rocket Blasts Off Into Space In 2012 From The Cape Canaveral Air Force Station In Florida!

“Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.” — Steve Jobs (born February 24, 1955) http://stuf.ly/2lT6ovV

MIT finds actual wisdom in the wisdom of crowds

You just need to find the people that know they are right and expect others to be wrong.

“Put simply, it's worth looking at those folks who answer against what they believe everyone else will say, since they may be smarter than everyone else.”

Hidden Galaxy IC 342

Similar in size to large, bright spiral galaxies in our neighborhood, IC 342 is a mere 10 million light-years distant in the long-necked, northern constellation Camelopardalis. A sprawling island universe, IC 342 would otherwise be a prominent galaxy in our night sky, but it is hidden from clear view and only glimpsed through the veil of stars, gas and dust clouds along the plane of our own Milky Way galaxy. Even though IC 342’s light is dimmed by intervening cosmic clouds, this sharp telescopic image traces the galaxy’s own obscuring dust, blue star clusters, and glowing pink star forming regions along spiral arms that wind far from the galaxy’s core. IC 342 may have undergone a recent burst of star formation activity and is close enough to have gravitationally influenced the evolution of the local group of galaxies and the Milky Way.

Credit & Copyright: T. Rector (U. Alaska Anchorage), H. Schweiker,  WIYN, NOAO, AURA, NSF.

Time And Space

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It’s posing questions and coming up with a method. It’s delving in.

Sally Ride (via fyp-science)

Remembering Gwen Ifill

Watch tribute compilations and Gwen Ifill's career retrospective from PBS NewsHour, hear her tactics on being a moderator, and watch her speak out against racial slurs on Meet the Press.

A look back on Gwen Ifill’s life and remarkable career in journalism.

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.

Blue hour in Bruges by Steve Olmstead

Bruges, West Flanders, Belgium

There are both pros and cons of social media, but I wanted to highlight all the good sides for this one as people usually only mention the bad! 😄 I’m really grateful for social media for keeping me in touch with friends and for letting me share my art with you all!

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