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20 Foot Charlie Brown Christmas Tree (Taken with Instagram at...

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 12:07:32 -0500

20 Foot Charlie Brown Christmas Tree (Taken with Instagram at Tupper Lake)

"Why do we struggle to breathe a more righteous breath, when we all end up in the same place?"

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:37:20 -0500

“Why do we struggle to breathe a more righteous breath, when we all end up in the same place?”

- Love

ilovecharts: -inlandwest …but you’re right, there’s probably no...

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:10:58 -0400

ilovecharts:

-inlandwest

…but you’re right, there’s probably no way we could cut that defense budget.

The Stars Inside Us

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:10:51 -0400

Our bodies are made of material that was forged in the cores of stars.

Our universe was initially composed almost entirely of Hydrogen and Helium, the lightest elements. The only way to really form the heavier elements that are required for life (Carbon, Oxygen, Iron, etc) is through stars formation and subsequent explosive nucleosynthesis. Huge clouds of hydrogen and helium coalesce over millions of years to eventually form stars. In the cores of those stars, there’s enough heat and pressure that nuclear fusion fuses lighter elements into heavier elements. Elements heavier than iron are created when the cores of stars reach supercritical mass and explode in supernovae.

Many think that much of the material on earth and in our bodies was created over the course of at least three “generations” of stars forming, exploding, and eventually forming again - perhaps as many as a dozen generations.

It took almost 10 billion years for the universe to create the materials that make life possible on Earth. It took trillions of births and deaths over the last 3.5 billion years for humans to evolve from those raw materials.

There is an immense weight of history behind every cell in your body. Don’t take them for granted.

Tony Bacigalupo's Blog: Let's Help Amit Defeat Leukemia!

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:01:44 -0400

Tony Bacigalupo's Blog: Let's Help Amit Defeat Leukemia!:

tonybgoode:

Yesterday, we lost one of the great luminaries of our time to cancer.

Today, we have an opportunity to help others in their fight. In particular, one of the most special people I know: Amit Gupta.

Amit is the founder of the endlessly wonderful DIY photography site Photojojo. He’s…

"You have to make the right choice. As long as you don’t choose, everything remains possible."

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:33:39 -0400

“You have to make the right choice. As long as you don’t choose, everything remains possible.”

- Mr. Nobody

Life's 10 Essentials

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:00:06 -0400

Life's 10 Essentials:

This weekend, I tackled Mount Washington, the highest peak East...

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:02:05 -0400

This weekend, I tackled Mount Washington, the highest peak East of the Mississippi, with a fantastic group of friends. Awesome video Forrest!

“The Heavens” - an infographic of the three heavens...

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:20:50 -0400

“The Heavens” - an infographic of the three heavens as described in scripture.

The Beautiful Space Shuttle Blooms Inside a Cloud by Stuck in...

Tue, 17 May 2011 10:16:11 -0400

The Beautiful Space Shuttle Blooms Inside a Cloud by Stuck in Customs on Flickr.

Endeavor’s Last Launch

Photo

Fri, 06 May 2011 13:39:41 -0400

He’s got a lot to manage.

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:03:20 -0400

He’s got a lot to manage.

It’s 2011. Is there some kind of surgical technology that...

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 21:38:00 -0400

It’s 2011. Is there some kind of surgical technology that will finally let me raise one eyebrow at a time?

I happen to love cartography, sunlight, happiness, data, and...

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 19:21:00 -0400

I happen to love cartography, sunlight, happiness, data, and concentric circles.

ilovecharts:

Sunshine and Happiness

moderation: Image of the Day: Earth’s Ghostly Light from...

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 08:45:28 -0400

moderation:

Image of the Day: Earth’s Ghostly Light from Interplanetary Dust

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One of the rarest of Eath’s astronomical events is a ghostly glow called the zodiacal light that the ancient Greeks believed that it was caused by distant volcanic eruptions. Visible in the Northern Hemisphere for the next two weeks, the phenomenon -caused by sunlight scattering off countless grains of microscopic interplanetary dust spread out to beyond the orbit of Mars- will be visible above the western horizon as a faint cone of light that extends halfway up the sky for about an hour after sunset..

The vast majority of the interplanetary dust is concentrated within the plane of the inner solar system near the sun, making the dust grains combined light appear along the ecliptic, the path in the sky each planet follows.

(via dailygalaxy)

California is Amazing

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:40:03 -0400

California is Amazing

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, con a ship, design..."

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:34:29 -0400

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, con a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

- Robert A. Heinlein, via mirRoR

Happy D-Day

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:40:14 -0400

My divorce is official!

Don’t cringe! It’s not dramatic - it’s celebratory. One phase of my life has concluded, and made way for the next. I enjoyed the time that Stephanie and I shared, and I’m really excited to create and discover a new future.

All of the household comforts, stability, and certainty I enjoyed have been exchanged for the opportunity to experience new adventures, romances, and life plots. When your future hasn’t been laid out, you can create anything you want.

Wait until you see Erada’s amazing photos! erada: Salt...

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:47:22 -0400

Wait until you see Erada’s amazing photos!

erada:

Salt Flats, Death Valley CA

I spent the week with one of my closest and dearest friends of many years doing a roadtrip throughout California. Expect more photos to come in the next few days.

xo

Erada

The 2010 Feltron Annual Report

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 20:14:00 -0500

The 2010 Feltron Annual Report:

Nicholas Felton has a project that inspires me: his Annual Report series. Nicholas collects data every day, and then creates an “annual report” for the year, detailing the progression of his travels, musical tastes, relationships, moods, and interests. The result is a visually captivating. I’m a sucker for infographics with good typography, and he’s a master at it.

For 2010, he tried something new: he created a sort of lifetime report of his father’s life, organized roughly by decade. His father passed away in September of 2010.

The idea of compacting someones entire life into a pretty annual report is a little distasteful to me - a lifetime is so much more than a series of datapoints. At the same time, I think it’s a great way to memorialize someone. Any attempt at describing someone’s life necessitates some form of distillation, of selecting some details instead of others. Over the years, I’ve tried several ways to memorialize my mother, who passed away in 2006. With the multitude of documents and photos I’ve got, there’s plenty of data that I could use to create a Feltron Report.