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What does this picture mean to you, on the occasion of the president’s 52nd birthday?

What does Mercury’s surface look like?

The Ukrainian designer Alexey Kashpersky’s digitally enhanced drawings were awarded first prize in a competition that charged participants with conveying “humanity’s complex relationships with [the HIV] virus, be they emotional, political, or intellectual.”

A dormant tie is somebody that you had a meaningful history with at some point but have lost touch in the past few years. 

George is one of these people who is constantly giving away jokes, sharing ideas, letting other people take credit for the work that was done collectively.

I would not trust a boss in judging who’s a giver or a taker but actually go to the people who work laterally or below that person.

Trying to support as many people as possible made me a much more effective negotiator. 

Watch these girls comment on the perversity of the sexuality in marketing to young girls.

I think one of the keys to success is being quick to respond and that’s been a truism in business for a very, very long time.  Opportunities don’t last forever […]

A view of the clouds from above, via Astronaut Karen Nyberg

The bright surrounding ring is atmospheric haze above Titan, the largest Moon of Saturn. This image was captured by the robotic Cassini spacecraft.

Churches can create the context in which sociability can be made safe and expressed. 

Plants are able to perform photosynthesis and therefore, plants are in a position to enjoy cinematography, to enjoy films since the essence of film is light. 

During my time in the Department of Defense we had to and did in fact give military commanders enormous freedom and flexibility. 

I think that the United States is vulnerable for many reasons. 

You can become a crazy cat lady if you abandon actual people in your environment and just focus on your pets or your stuffed animals or your live doll or whatever you have.  

The microship is pervasive and ubiquitous in our lives more than we realize. 

Dogs are capable of copying our behavior as long as 10 minutes after it’s happened.

With 360 movie panels, the sky over (almost) an entire year is shown in time lapse format as recorded by a video camera on the roof of the Exploratorium museum in San Francisco, California.

If just stay on the same pathway every single day that’s going to be a pretty predictable pathway of what you’re going down now.

Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy, is using technology to “flip the classroom” and in the process revolusationize education.

Ray Kurzweil is singularly sure about The Singularity.

I’ve come to the conclusion that there’s really no way to be one hundred percent popular as conductor. 

Art and music is part of what it means to be a human being.  

Did you know you can raise money without having a business plan? You can get publicity for your idea without knowing anyone. You can find love even if you think you’re too busy.

The astronomy video blogger Tony Darnell explains why conspiracy theories about COMET ISON are nonsense, but that a meteor shower might be expected in 2014. 

By occupying or inspecting or exploring other views of the world you can potentially identify some of the blind spots in our own views.

As we learn about things more deeply and more deeply, we will discover that in fact, there’s all kinds of peripheral work to be done that we couldn’t have even imagined looking forward. 

We often want something to be illegal that we don’t actually want punished in a lot of circumstances. 

90% of the news in the newspaper and on television is negative because that’s what we pay attention to.