Werner von Braun shows how they are designing a rocket for near earth travel.
Rare Walt Disney Space series from 1955, speculating about going into Space. Remember, more than 50 years ago, Sputnik hadn’t even gone up yet!

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Amazing short video about one of the most influential men ever.

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The golden ratio fascinates me. That’s why I’m delivering some well cooked copypasta from PonderAbout.com for your edutainment.
1.618 has been called nature’s number, the golden number and the golden ratio.
Pythagoras wrote that this mysterious number, “manifests in the whole of creation”
It can be seen in art, music, architecture, and in the structure of a [...]

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39 years ago yesterday, this was the front page of the New York Times:

Naturally, the New York Times “On This Day” website has the full text available.
Hard to believe no one has been to the moon since the Apollo missions ended all those years ago.  You think we’d be able to muster the technology and [...]

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Rehabbing baby sea lions must be a lot like raising an aquatic puppy.  I love the beach, so this job has got to be one of the most rewarding ever.

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Quantum science is neat!

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I’m a sucker for nature documentaries.  What an incredible creature!

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This is the cutest thing ever.

A baby hippopotamus that survived the tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise in an animal facility in the port city of Mombassa , officials said The hippopotamus, nicknamed Owen and weighing about 300 kilograms (650 pounds), was swept down [...]

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The Discovery Channel put together this great site on the capabilities of the human body.  It’s a really great learning experience because it’s fun, visually stimulating, and always highly interesting.  This is the way media should be done!
The Human Body Explorer

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This clip is from the BBC series Wild Australia, I believe.  The footage is bizarre and fantastic.  Enjoy!

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I watched this great documentary today, and recommend that you get your hands on it.  If you can’t rent it or buy it or borrow it from a friend, I’ve included the whole thing below.
It’s full of beautiful footage (and when I say beautiful, I mean absolutely unreal, they couldn’t have made more stunning CGI [...]

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This is pretty wild. From Signs of the Times via Fixed-Point Foundation
“Christian mathematician John Lennox and atheist public understanding of science prof Richard Dawkins will continue in October 2008 their 2007 discussion on the spot where Thomas Huxley and Samuel Wilberforce duked it out a century and a half ago:
At 6:00 p.m. on the 20th [...]

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If there is one thing I don’t like about most average people in modern society, it’s that they aren’t thinking in terms of the future enough; what they can build and accomplish together.  I read old texts and watch old films that sure, to one degree or another might seem campy, but it just shows [...]

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I’m a sucker for a good conspiracy theory.  I guess part of it is that like the underdog belief system challenging ubiquitous preconceptions, and just the thought of having another way to understand the world around you.  This is a real neat one, guaranteed to at the very least entertain, and at the very most [...]

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A very interesting documentary on the power of our minds.  The capabilities that we can reach if we dedicate ourselves to a pursuit simply amaze me.  There is also a fantastic experiment concerning the sex of a person and how it correlates to the way their mind works. Take some time and enjoy!  If you [...]

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“The recurrences of the universe rose to the maddening rhythm of an incantation, and I began to see an idea. A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, [...]

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Interesting discussion about developing more holistic eating habits. I don’t agree with every assumption Bittman makes here, but he’s got a lot of good things to say here, especially in relation to personal disease prevention.  Enjoy.

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“Amazing CGI visualization of molecular biology’s central dogma. It shows animations of DNA coiling, replication, transcription and translation.

It was created by Drew Berry of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research”
Science!

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This has been floating around online for a little while now, and I’ve been meaning to post it up.  The squid was caught in 2007 and frozen, and was finally taken out for study a little while ago.  The scientists even ate some of it! (Apparently it tastes like sashimi).
Via Presurfer

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From Wikipedia:
“[D3O is a] dilatant material developed by the British company d3o Lab.
This lightweight material is very flexible and malleable, until subjected to abrupt force, making it useful in protective clothing in situations where the wearer may be exposed to blunt trauma.”
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