Try as you might, you can’t walk in a straight line without a visible guide point, like the Sun or a star. You might think you’re walking straight, but as NPR’s Robert Krulwich reports, a map of your route would reveal you are doomed to walk in circles.
via The Daily What:
“The Frontier is Everywhere” — breathtaking fan-made NASA promo video, lovingly compiled by YouTuber damewse, and “narrated” by Carl Sagan.
In all of their brilliance, NASA seems to have forgotten to share their hopes and dreams in a way the public can relate to, leaving one of humanities grandest projects with terrible PR and massive funding cuts. I have a lot of ideas for a NASA marketing campaign, but I doubt they’d pay me even minimum wage to work for them.
Dear NASA: Don’t mess this up.
From The Daily What-Hans Rosling charts the progress of 200 countries in areas of health and wealth over the course of 200 hundred years in just four minutes.
Because I’m a sucker for graphs (and because my mom is going back to work after having more than a week off and if I don’t distract her with a new post she may eat someone).
Let me guess, your kids played in the snow for twenty minutes before they were wet, cold, and begging to come back inside. So you stuck them in front of the TV and now here you are at the computer. Not proud of yourself, are you?
It’s okay. You aren’t alone. I told my kids they were letting all of the heat out of the house when they kept running in and out of the door and one of them said, “So?”
Now I’m making them watch Alive. That should teach them.
For those of you in Wisconsin and Minnesota, who have gotten 18 and 23 inches, respectively, I’d like to let you know that here in Chattanooga, TN, we’ve gotten an inch of snow and the city is shut down.
Here are some links to ease the pain: read more
Speaking of Mario, I just found this video. It’s a love song for the gamer generation. The song, written and performed by Sam Hart (original here), has nearly 6 million views on Youtube and is available on iTunes as well.
As if it wasn’t bad enough that the kids I used to babysit are having kids of their own, now the game I played as a child is old enough to get a discount on its car insurance.
By special request: Laura asked me to post a link to the trivia and hidden references in Toy Story 3 . They’re called Easter eggs because they are hidden throughout the movie. For instance, the hateful kid from the first movie shows up in 3 as the garbage man, wearing the same black skull shirt. There are lots of Cars references and Andy’s bulletin board has a postcard bearing the names and address of the couple from Up. Link
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