wonderous-world:

Green Lake is located in Tragöss Austria. In spring snowmelt raises the lake level about 10 meters. This phenomenon, which lasts only a few weeks, covers the hiking trails, meadows, trees and everything in between. The result is magical to watch diving landscapes. Photos by Marc Henauer for National Geographic [Article and Video]

There it is. The bench. That exact park bench. It's one of the very first places where I said hello to a friend who would change the course of my entire life. And now I'm saying goodbye.

weeping-who-girl:

Matt & David on Chris Hardwick’s Comic Con Blunder (x)

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Bonus Chris Hardwick in costume:

fat-birds:

Violet Backed Starling by LawrenceNeo on Flickr.

maybe not fat, but absolutely fabulous

using nothing more than newton’s laws of gravitation, we astronomers can confidently predict that several billion years from now our home galaxy, the milky way, will merge with our neighbouring galaxy, andromeda. because the distances between the stars are so great compared to their sizes, few if any stars in either galaxy will actually collide.
any life on the worlds of that far off future should be safe, but they will be treated to an amazing billion-year-long lightshow.
a dance of a half a trillion stars, to music first heard on one little world, by a man who had but one true friend.

A frog was caught doing pull-ups on a plant stem by an eagle-eyed photographer

sextective:

The Ballad Of Arthur Darvill (x)

Despite rising demand, many devices claiming to monitor fitness and health probably overpromise and underdeliver.

Church of St. Pierre | Le Corbusier  | José Oubrerie | Miroslava Brooks

Designed to be a church in the model city of Firminy Vert, the construction of Saint-Pierre was begun in 1971, six years after Le Corbusier’s death in 1965. Due to local political conflicts it remained stalled from 1975 to 2003, when the local government declared the mouldering concrete ruin an “architectural heritage” and financed its completion. The building was completed by the French architect, José Oubrerie, Le Corbusier’s student for many years.

It has been used for many different purposes, as a secondary school and as a shelter. As the laicist French state may not use public funds for religious buildings, Saint-Pierre is now used as a cultural venue.

It wasn’t an entirely bad night of music, and perhaps I’m being unfair due to other circumstances, but I just wasn’t that into it by the time the show rolled around

estufar:

An actual headline from The New York Times in 1919 

really cute animal crossing themed birthday!
(please don’t remove source!!!)

An anonymous reader writes "Wired recently ran a cover story about the sharing economy — shorthand for the rise of peer-to-peer rental services like Lyft and Airbnb — which they call a cultural and economic breakthrough. They say it has ushered in a 'new era of Internet-enabled intimacy.' An article at New York Magazine has another theory: that it arose because of the weakness in the real economy. Quoting: 'A huge precondition for the sharing economy has been a depressed labor market, in which lots of people are trying to fill holes in their income by monetizing their stuff and their labor in creative ways. In many cases, people join the sharing economy because they've recently lost a full-time job and are piecing together income from several part-time gigs to replace it. In a few cases, it's because the pricing structure of the sharing economy made their old jobs less profitable. (Like full-time taxi drivers who have switched to Lyft or Uber.) In almost every case, what compels people to open up their homes and cars to complete strangers is money, not trust.'"

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fourteen-forty:

Girls skating in the seventies.

Including Laura Thornhill, (mostly), Kim Cespedes, Robin Logan, Ellen-Oneal,

Short shorts, long hair & fancy footwork.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) According to the weekly magazine of the Pauline Fathers, a miracle involving the birth of a baby in California in the 1990s has been attributed to the late Italian pope; the identity of the family and its location has not been revealed.

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VATICAN CITY (RNS) “We declare and define Blessed John XXIII and John Paul II be saints, and we enrole them among the saints, decreeing that they are to be venerated as such by the whole church,” Francis declared to the crowd in Latin during the two-hour ceremony.

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The depths of California’s drought

CALIFORNIA is ending its warmest winter on record, aggravating what could well be the region’s worst drought in 500 years, according to paleoclimatologists. It has devastated the state. Some small communities may run out of drinking water. Farmers are considering idling half a million acres of farmland, which could cause billions of dollars in economic damage. The last time the water supply was as low, in the 1960s, California’s population was just less than 20m. Today, the same amount of water must accommodate twice as many people—underscoring the severity of the crisis. For our chart, we scraped the end-of-month reservoir storage records from California’s Department of Water Resources for all 191 reservoirs starting in...Continue reading

Built by a programmer named Mike Walker, it’s an extension for Google’s Chrome browser that replaces the word “literally” with “figuratively” on sites and articles across the Web, with deeply gratifying results.

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Warning: this is a horrible story. 234 young women were abducted from a physics test in Nigeria, specifically to keep them from getting an education. Nothing is being done to find them. Collective public outrage is the only tool that can possibly get a search started.

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The first living ex-pope in 600 years watches as the successor he enabled dismantles his legacy.

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HAMILTON, OH—Despite being the beneficiary of numerous societal advantages and having faced little to no major adversity throughout his life, local man Travis Benton has spent the last four years squandering his white male privilege on a sales floor...

myneighbortoronto:

polar bear looking dashing in the christmas episode

Cosmos is a series that really gets me. From the pure scientific wonder to the top-shelf special effects, it's one of the things I look most forward to watching every week. I especially enjoy the focus on historical astronomers, and have been eagerly anticipating the inclusion of women in science. This Sunday, my wait is over. The series' eighth episode, "Sisters of the Sun," will bring us not one, but two brilliant women who changed the way we understand our universe. Judging by a preview clip (which we've got below), the episode will also touch on the obstacles faced by female scientists, particularly those working in the early 20th century.

smith-q-and-a:

just a few of the signs we made today for our rally on april 24 starting at 8:30AM! thanks to everyone who came out.