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Astrophoto: Airglow shining like an aurora
The Milky Way and airglow seen in the Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve in Portugal.
Image credit: Miguel Claro
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Airplanes cutting through clouds creating Wingtip Vortices. These are circular patterns of rotating air behind a wing as it generates lift. Here is a video of one being created as a plane lands. You can see the higher pressure air under the wing rush to meet with the lower pressure above to create the vortex.
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People can be so awful, twisted and cruel sometimes. They can really hurt you. But when they’re doing that you just need to remember that for every 1 of them there are 100 lovely people out there doing amazing things.
Instead of dwelling on how they’ve hurt you just see the positive side, thank...
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The Allegory of the Cave—also known as the Analogy of the Cave, Plato’s Cave, or the Parable of the Cave—is an allegory presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work The Republic to illustrate “our nature in its education and want of education!"
Plato has Socrates describe a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of a fire behind them, and begin to ascribe forms to these shadows. According to Plato’s Socrates, the shadows are as close as the prisoners get to viewing reality. He then explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall do not make up reality at all, as he can perceive the true form of reality rather than the mere shadows seen by the prisoners.
The Allegory may be related to Plato’s Theory of Forms, according to which the “Forms" (or “Ideas"), and not the material world of change known to us through sensation, possess the highest and most fundamental kind of reality. Only knowledge of the Forms constitutes real knowledge. In addition, the Allegory of the Cave is an attempt to explain the philosopher’s place in society: to attempt to enlighten the “prisoners."
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the television was invented just for this one scene
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Norfolk, England http://www.bic.org/fiveyears
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“For three and a half decades now, wave after wave of persecution, varying in intensity, has battered your sorely tried and valiant community, a barrage that is but the latest in a series unleashed over one hundred and sixty years ago. Yet, contrary to the expectations ofthose bent on sapping the strength of the community of Baha’u’llah’s followers in His homeland, their machinations have served ultimately to reinforce its foundations and fortify its ranks.”
Universal House of Justice, letter dated 2 March 2013 to the Baha’is in Iran (via 5yearstoomany)
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