Bloody expeditions, Girl Scouts with guns, talking to fish, and a crazy old woman that carried around sacks of eels did rain dances (gpoy my previous life).
Waves For Water, an organization helping to bring fresh water to ones in need
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(Source: newsweek, via obamaporn)
From his speech in Gainesville last night:
“We need to make it uncomfortable for Florida legislators to not be concerned about their environment,” he said.
I agree with this 100% and your lobbying can make all the difference.
10 Reasons Why We Should Explore The Deep by Craig McClain and Al Dove (via scipsy)1. Exploration is about observation, the first step of the scientific process. Without exploration we do not have the intellectual fodder for scientific discovery.
2. Exploration is about knowledge, about expanding our horizons and answering questions that we haven’t even thought of asking yet.
3. Through exploration we can gain knowledge about earth, life, and potentially other planets.
4. Exploration leads to technological and engineering innovation as we strive to meet new challenges.
5. To explore the unknown means discovery with ramifications unseen.
6. Through exploration, nations become great.
7. A humans we are a naturally curious species, we deny our humanity if we do not explore the unknown world around us.
8. Exploration allows for the unification of humanity around great achievement.
9. Exploration allows us to inspire others to be explorers and scientists.
10. We should explore because it’s cool, awesome, and amazing.
(via scipsy)
The Guardian newspaper tell the story of the 3 Little Pigs if it were to be told in today’s media.
This is a fucking brilliant, next-level video.
I met Dan last night as I was walking out of a job back to my car. He greeted me and asked how my night was, then if he could bum $3. I told him no, sorry, and kept walking. After crossing the street, I thought back to the countless times I stepped past the homeless when I lived in the city without a second thought, and how “No, sorry” had become a reflex. I would have been broke within a week if I stopped to help everyone who asked back then, but it doesn’t happen very often out in the suburbs. I looked back, and he was still there, but making his way toward an alley. After crossing back and catching up with him, I told him I wouldn’t give him cash, but would be happy to buy him a sandwich if he was hungry. He thought about it for a moment, and said he could save it for the morning.
Inside the sandwich shop, Dan thanked me for the offer, ordered a roast beef with everything, and talked about how he’s been looking for jobs around Naperville. He’d been told at a couple restaurants a dish-washing position might open up in mid-March, but that doesn’t really help him right now. He said he applied at a hardware store, but no luck there either. He talked about troubles finding a job when he was living with his sister in Washington state, where he ended up a while after his marriage fell apart and he left his abusive wife. He came back to the Midwest hoping for better luck, but now he’s on the street. He said he doesn’t drink, and stopped hanging around some guys who did after their moods turned sour when they would. He changed the subject and talked about the Cubs and the Blackhawks, and when he saw my camera, said he’s always wanted to wander the woods making pictures.
As we made our way back to the sidewalk, I asked Dan if I could take his picture. He said that would be fine. I thanked him, he thanked me and we went our separate ways.
Humans are awesome.
(via nedhepburn)
Today’s Google doodle celebrates the birthday of Heinrich Hertz, who proved the existence of electromagnetic waves.
It occurs to me that this is an accomplishment whose scale is often overlooked. Without Hertz, we wouldn’t have wi-fi, iPhones, radio, Kinect, remote controls for our TVs or really anything that sends a signal to something else.
A galaxy not so far away: The Daily Mail put together a wonderful gallery of photographs of Wall Street Canyon at Bryce Canyon National Park by photographer Royce Bair.
For #Starporn Saturday.
We should totally make that a thing.
Yup
