SEAT Ecomotive – The Test

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The perfect billboard

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This is the first image ever taken of Earth from the surface of a planet beyond the Moon. It was taken by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit one hour before sunrise on the 63rd Martian day, or sol, of its mission.

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Just as a chimpanzee can’t understand quantum theory, it could be there are aspects of reality that are beyond the capacity of our brains.

Stephen Hawking

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The Vasconcelos Library

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Vintage typewriter jewellery

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Lightning and Iceland volcano cloud. By Marco Fulle.

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“And in the shower I am a sailor standing ready waiting for the ship to list.”

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Didn’t the Vatican say we were satanic or possibly satanic — and they’ve still forgiven us? I think the Vatican, they’ve got more to talk about than the Beatles.

Ringo Starr

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Bathroom philosophy.

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I get by with a little help from my friends

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A high-resolution closeup of Saturn’s moon Mimas

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It’s a miracle! Flying Spaghetti Monster toast

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The week that was #lastfm

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Homeopathy – the air guitar of medicine

Peter Harrison

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Most educated people are aware that we are the outcome of nearly 4 billion years of Darwinian selection. But many tend to think that humans are still somehow the culmination of that. Our sun, however, is less than halfway through its lifespan. It will not be humans who watch that sun’s demise 6 billion years from now. Any creatures that then do exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoeba.

Sir Martin Rees (via sixtyforty)

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Words that Don’t Exist in the English Language

via lacedwithlove:

I especially love number 5. Happens to me ALL the time. It just fascinates me that there are words common to certain languages that others don’t even have. My Psychology of Language class has given me a whole new perspective on language and how it’s used.

1. Waldeinsamkeit (German): the feeling of being alone in the woods

2. Ilunga (Tshiluba, Congo): a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time

3. Taarradhin (Arabic): a way of resolving a problem without anyone losing face (not the same as our concept of a compromise – everyone wins)

4. Litost (Czech): a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery

5. Esprit de l’escalier (French): a witty remark that occurs to you too late, literally on the way down the stairs…

6. Meraki (Greek): doing something with soul, creativity, or love

7. Yoko meshi (Japanese): literally ‘a meal eaten sideways’, referring to the peculiar stress induced by speaking a foreign language:

8. Duende (Spanish): a climactic show of spirit in a performance or work of art, which might be fulfilled in flamenco dancing, or bull-fighting, etc.

9. Guanxi (Mandarin): in traditional Chinese society, you would build up good guanxi by giving gifts to people, taking them to dinner, or doing them a favour, but you can also use up your gianxi by asking for a favour to be repaid.

10. Pochemuchka (Russian): a person who asks a lot of questions

11. Tingo (Pascuense language of Easter Island): to borrow objects one by one from a neighbour’s house until there is nothing left

12. Radioukacz (Polish): a person who worked as a telegraphist for the resistance movements on the Soviet side of the Iron Curtain

13. Selathirupavar (Tamil): a word used to define a certain type of absence without official leave in face of duty

http://recluse.me/2007/11/13-words-not-found-in-the-english-language/

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Earth’s rivers seen from space

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Please keep your drama on a leash.

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Climate on the Wall: Danish projected type project

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Meet Kieron Williamson: a six year-old art prodigy

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The original emo kid

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2 white dwarfs + 500km/sec = 5 minute orbit.

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