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Poles

I don’t know who the Poles are.  I’m assuming that they’re people that live around the North Pole and South Pole.

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Twinkie Troubles

During the Civil War the Twinkie had to withstand days of being uneaten and to make sure the snack did not spoil modern technology was created.

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#goals

Goals are when you mean something that means something that means something.

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Re: the Holocaust

I personally feel that the Germans went too far.

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“Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.”

-Morihei Ueshiba O Sensei, The Art of Peace

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“Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.”

-Morihei Ueshiba O Sensei, The Art of Peace

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MimiPets >3

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The Most Influential Popular Science Books, part one

Here’s the first part of the legendary books on scientific discoveries and ideas that changed the world: true classics that are recommended for everyone.

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo Galilei (1632): The most proximate cause of Galilei being brought to trial before the Inquisition. Using the dialogue form, a genre common in classical philosophical works, Galileo masterfully demonstrates the truth of the Copernican system over the Ptolemaic one, proving, for the first time, that the earth revolves around the sun. Its influence is incalculable. The Dialogue is not only one of the most important scientific treatises ever written, but a work of supreme clarity, remaining as readable now as when it was first published. 

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: The publication of this book in 1859 marked a dramatic turning point in scientific thought. Selling out its first edition on its first day, The Origin of Species revolutionized science, philosophy, and theology. Darwin’s reasoned, documented arguments advance his theory of natural selection and his assertion that species started with a few simple forms that mutated and adapted over time.  

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (1988): How did the universe begin—and what made its start possible? Does time always flow forward? Is the universe unending? What will happen when it all ends? Told in language we all can understand, A Brief History of Time plunges into the realms of black holes, quarks, antimatter, the big bang and a bigger God. Stephen Hawking brings us closer to the ultimate secrets at the very heart of creation. 

Cosmos by Carl Sagan (1980): Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. Cosmos retraces the fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution that have transformed matter into consciousness, exploring such topics as the origin of life, the human brain, Egyptian hieroglyphics, spacecraft missions, the death of the Sun, and the list goes on.

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (1962): The marine biologist’s documented indictment of DDT led both to a U.S. ban on the insecticide and to the birth of the modern environmental movement. Carson argues that DDT not only indiscriminately kills insects, but also accumulates in the fat of birds and mammals high on the food chain, thinning eggshells and causing reproductive problems.

Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein (1916): In the early 20th century, scientists began to interrogate the Newtonian model of Physics that posits absolute time, intrigued by the possibility of a dimension in which space and time overlap. This text is Einstein’s philosophical explanation of the idea that changed the way we understand the physics of space and time.

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Brilliantly Simple Tower Collects Safe Drinking Water Out of Thin Air

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This Woman Has Dedicated Her Life To Taking Pictures Of The Oldest Trees On The Planet

San Francisco-based photographer Beth Moon traveled all over the planet shooting some of the world’s oldest living trees. She dedicated 14 years of her life to this quest, and the resulting photographic collection, a series of 60 duotone prints, were made into a book titled “Ancient Trees: Portraits of Time.”

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Antarctica from space

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A little bit of the milky way over Menesetung Bridge in Goderich, Ontario.