Thanks, Dad!
The 4-foot-tall plant sprouted up between concrete slabs in Sam Lal’s yard in Queens. He says the plant began to resemble an elephant’s head and trunk. Lal, a Hindu, told the New York Daily News that the plant has healed his back pain.
“They say God comes in many forms. I figure this has taken the form of a plant to come into my yard and bless me,” he said.
Quote via NPR | Image via Daily News
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Very cool, well explained video about all the dimensions (we know of), which is, believe it or not, 10! Everything is explained very straightforward and, though the ideas are complex, in a way that even I was able to get. I’m considering picking up the book; if not for me, than for my father, who I would think would be very interested in these kind of things.
Most of us have gotten used to the idea of there being four dimensions: but how can we possibly imagine the tenth? This project starts from the unique argument that time really is just one of the directions in the fourth spatial dimension, and our spacetime universe is being created one planck length at a time as we twist and turn in the available branches of the fifth dimension. This “new way of thinking about time and space” is not the traditional position of mainstream science: still, many people around the world feel this new idea has resonances with their own ways of understanding reality.
Official Site | Via +KN
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Extremely insightful and moving things said by a group of 4 to 8 year-olds when asked “What does love mean?” Here are a few of my favorites:
“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.” Billy - age 4
“Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more. My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss.” Emily - age 8
“Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford.” Chris - age 7
“Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day.” Mary Ann - age 4
“When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you.” Karen - age 7
“You really shouldn’t say ‘I love you’ unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.” Jessica - age 8
“What Does Love Mean?” See How 4-8 Year-Old Kids Describe Love
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Made me smile. Thank you Swiss Miss.
Kevin Kelly’s phrasing of Daniel Gilbert, of “Stumbling on Happiness”
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Yesterday I came across a documentary (called Do You Want to Live Forever?) about this man, Aubry DeGrey, a man who says he has figured out how to cure aging. Imagine not only living much much longer, but living those years in the best of health. He has his critics and you can judge for yourself, but you cannot deny his passion for this.
A true maverick, Aubrey de Grey challenges the most basic assumption underlying the human condition — that aging is inevitable. He argues instead that aging is a disease — one that can be cured if it’s approached as “an engineering problem.” His plan calls for identifying all the components that cause human tissue to age, and designing remedies for each of them — forestalling disease and eventually pushing back death. He calls the approach Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS).
Quoted from TED
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Whoa!
Google, the Internet search powerhouse that in recent years has expanded to include mapping of the stars as well as the surfaces of the moon and Mars and which has an ongoing collaboration with NASA’s Ames Research Center, provided a small seed grant to fund development of the wide-field digital cameras needed for the satellite. Because of the huge amount of data that will be generated by the satellite, Google has an interest in working on the development of ways of sifting through that data to find useful information.
Dubbed the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), the satellite could potentially be launched in 2012. ‘Decades, or even centuries after the TESS survey is completed, the new planetary systems it discovers will continue to be studied because they are both nearby and bright,’ says George R. Ricker, senior research scientist at the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research at MIT and leader of the project. ‘In fact, when starships transporting colonists first depart the solar system, they may well be headed toward a TESS-discovered planet as their new home.’
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I am really happy to see that a company is doing something worth while with corporate sponsorship, These numbers are not huge in the world of big business marketing.
ie: NASCAR owners operate on a very slim margin. Most top tier teams require $25million/year in sponsorship money to make ends meet.
It really makes me want to support a company like Google when they can make the decision to support human kind as a whole. Support science, discovery and the human spirit as opposed to putting shoes on some idiot Jocks feet.
Thank you Google!
-Jack
February 21, 2008, Mountain View, CA – The X PRIZE Foundation and Google, Inc. today announced the first ten teams to register for the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a robotic race to the Moon to win a remarkable $30 million in prizes. This international group of teams will compete to land a privately funded robotic craft on the Moon that is capable of roaming the lunar surface for at least 500 meters and sending video, images and data back to the Earth.
ABOUT THE GOOGLE LUNAR X PRIZE
The $30 million prize purse is segmented into a $20 million Grand Prize, a $5 million Second Prize and $5 million in bonus prizes. To win the Grand Prize, a team must successfully soft land a privately funded spacecraft on the Moon, rove on the lunar surface for a minimum of 500 meters, and transmit a specific set of video, images and data back to the Earth. The Grand Prize is $20 million until December 31st 2012; thereafter it will drop to $15 million until December 31st 2014 at which point the competition will be terminated unless extended by Google and the X PRIZE Foundation. For more information about the Google Lunar X PRIZE, please visit www.googlelunarxprize.org.
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