December 2010
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Two of my favorite things did it without... →
The scale of the universe.
itsfullofstars:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525347
A really nice flash graphic by Cary Huang depicting the scale of the universe.
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Infinite Jest, a diagram of character relationship →
Julian Assange for The Australian: The Truth Will... →
kateoplis:
In 1958 a young Rupert Murdoch, then owner and editor of Adelaide’s The News, wrote: “In the race between secrecy and truth, it seems inevitable that truth will always win.”
His observation perhaps reflected his father Keith Murdoch’s expose that Australian troops were being needlessly sacrificed by incompetent British commanders on the shores of Gallipoli. The British tried to shut...
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Go here. Do something. →
350 is the most important number in the world—it’s what scientists say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Three years ago, after leading climatologists observed rapid ice melt in the Arctic and other frightening signs of climate change, they issued a series of studies showing that the planet faced both human and natural disaster if atmospheric concentrations of...
November 2010
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From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular...
– Carl Sagan’s response to the Pale Blue Dot photograph.
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