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wayfaringmd:

Best specialty in a zombie apocalypse? - anon

My gut says neurologist or pathologist. Because braaaaaaainnns.

But my braaains say Family doc, of course. We can do a little bit of everything. ER docs would probably be pretty helpful too, for similar reasons.

What…

latimes:

wnyc:

architizer:

Astounding Tilt-Shift Perspectives of World Monuments!

Anyone who’s traveled to popular touristic sites knows the feeling of being caught in the crossfire of countless camera lenses—the annoyed (and annoying) jockeying to capture the perfect shot…which in most cases looks exactly like everyone else’s. When we stumbled across Richard Silver’s photographs of iconic monuments, we were shocked—caught in the same tourist hustle, Silver manages to give us a new perspective on famous landmarks we didn’t think possible. Read more!

How to take the “monumental” out of the worlds monuments. Super cool.

-Jody, BL Show-

Whoa!

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mackenzie:

Thank you Dallas.

There's a tumblr run by an astronaut living in space. →

strle:

climateadaptation:

Colonel Chris Hadfield currently lives on the International Space Station. He posts pictures of his work and the earth and your wee brain will explode. colchrishadfield.tumblr.com

Canadian Astronaut, currently living in space aboard ISS as Flight Engineer on Expedition 34, to be Commander of Expedition 35.

Important news from space!!!

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michael:

landofivy:

EVIDENCE OF HOW THE MOON FORMED HAS BEEN FOUND

Frédéric Moynier and his team at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered evidence that the Moon was created when a planetary body the size of Mars smashed into the Earth about 4.5 billion years ago.

Moon rocks have been shown to have a tiny excess of a heavier variant of the element zinc. In the Moon’s early formation its surface was hot enough to vaporise zinc. This enrichment likely occurred as heavier zinc atoms condense out of vaporised rock faster than lighter zinc atoms . The remaining vapour escapes before it condenses. This kind of sorting by mass is known as isotopic fractionation and has been looked for in Moon rocks since the 1970’s. Moon rocks are chemically similar to Earth rocks, except for a significantly lower amount of volatiles.

you know, in case you hadn’t already heard

surrogateself:

RINGZ [ by Surrogate Self ]

myNoSQL: Reports Indicate That Part of Your Business Algorithm Is Executed by Humans →

nosql:

Jay Kreps¹ had a very interesting follow up to the GigaOM’s article Why big data might be more about automation than insights :

That article reminded me how immature people’s thinking about the use of data is. They are still thinking about “reports”. Reports indicate that that…

Quiz: Jay-Z Lyric or Line From The Great Gatsby? →

radioon:

I did not do well on this quiz.

me either…

Wow Michael I had no idea you were so multi talented… Michael Schenker’s Rock Album

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Thank you! Happy birthday to me!

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mattlehrer:

Thanks!

Testing

How to build a million-qubit quantum computer →

singularitarian:

A team led by Princeton‘s Associate Professor of Physics Jason Petta has developed a new method that could eventually allow engineers to build a working quantum computer consisting of millions of quantum bits (qubits).

storyboard:

Art at a Snail’s Pace

You’ve finally made it, after a breathless climb up the winding marble staircase, to the upper terrace of the Duomo di Milano — the famed Cathedral of Milan, Italy, and the fourth largest in the world. You flip through your guide book. A towering forest of ornate spires, the same ones that enchanted the literary likes of Mark Twain and Henry James? Check. The hundred gruesome gargoyles, staring down from their marble perches? Check. There is the precious white marble, quarried from Cadoglia, and a view of the Italian Swiss Alps in the distance (amid the smog). And yet, if you happened to be one of thousands of tourists who visited the Duomo two months ago, there was also something out of place — a bit of modernity sticking out among the 14th-century Gothic masterpiece.

There, slinking across the cathedral’s steps and roof, were dozens of bright blue plastic snails.

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