May 2013
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Watchjtotheizzoe:
explore-blog:
Remarkable animated visualization of every meteorite since 861 AD from The Guardian.
(ᔥ Open Culture)
This is awesome! It really hits “death from the skies” level near the end. Which, coincidentally, is the name of a book by Bad Astronomer Phil Plait all about the science behind the ways the world might end (and the ways that it most certainly won’t … like Planet...
RIP Adobe →
claytoncubitt:
“Up to now, customers had perpetual access by paying a single fee for Adobe’s Creative Suite. From next month, continuing access to the programs, either individually or as a whole, will demand a monthly fee.”
See also.
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April 2013
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The linguistic miracle of texts - John McWhorter... →
wildcat2030:
More than 22 million text messages are sent across the world every day … many in truly terrible English. It’s the end of the world as we know it, many decry. The decline and fall of written language means the end for us all, right? Not so fast. Linguist John McWhorter has a great new theory on what’s really going on in modern texting. Far from being a scourge, texting is a...
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If other planets switched places with the Moon,...
did-you-kno:
This is the Moon.
But imagine for a second that the Moon switched places with other planets. This is what you would see (subject to staying alive, of course):
Mars:
Venus:
Uranus:
Neptune:
Saturn:
Jupiter:
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February 2013
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