Todd Mclellan meticulously disassembles everyday objects for his photography, such as this deconstructed typewriter.
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Image Copyright: Stephane Vetter
A ridge of the Pennine Alps, Switzerland, overlooking the Gorner Glacier to the south. It can be reached by the Gornergratbahn rack railway from Zermatt.
The towers of the Kulm hotel at 3,089 m hosts the Kölner Observatorium für SubMillimeter Astronomie KOSMA and (until 2005) the Gornergrat Infrared Telescope.
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Hypatia of Alexandria
‘Influential Women of Astronomy’
Image: Hypatia as played in the film Agora by Rachel Weisz
Sixteen hundred years ago, Hypatia became one of the world’s leading scholars in mathematics and astronomy. Hypatia’s legendary knowledge, modesty, and public speaking ability flourished during the era of the Great Library of Alexandria.
Hypatia is credited with contributions to geometry and astrometry, and she is thought instrumental in the development of the sky-measuring astrolabe.
“Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all,” Hypatia is credited with saying.
“To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.” — Hypatia of Alexandria
(Source: ikenbot)
first spring birds
Yesterday when I was lying on my bed trying to fall asleep I’ve heard something strange. Firstly I ignored it because I though that there is really nothing about it and I just mistaken. But then I realized that I hear a birds, and also I realized that I didn’t hear the birds at night for quite a long time.
The deal is that I leave in a park (sounds strange but true) and it’s very quite at night. So each new sound is recognizable. You like hearing echo of it multiplying by the trees and the scatterings of small stone.
And dark carries the sounds from the corners of the forest to you carefully. And stars reflect it. And so here comes the spring.
17 pages
I was just thinking why it’s so hard to write a report of just 17 pages. Really, to read this amount you will spend like 30 minutes maximum. But to write it takes a week, not less. So what a difference?
There is no difference at all. To write 17 pages of novel or essay takes same one week (sometimes more sometimes less). The only difference between the scientific report and novel is that you operate the facts, but you still trying to find a story in them and to present this story so everybody will enjoy it.
And that’s hard. To find a story between numb3rs.
