Pause to Wonder

Greece at the Beginning of the Peloponnesian War...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 22:37:18 +0200

Greece at the Beginning of the Peloponnesian War (431 BCE).

Perry-Castañeda Library Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/

"The greatest satisfaction you can obtain from life is your pleasure in producing, in your own..."

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 23:32:32 +0100

“The greatest satisfaction you can obtain from life is your pleasure in producing, in your own...

Humour, chocolate, Nobel Prize for physics... connection?

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 18:21:53 +0100

“Eric Cornell, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001, told Reuters: ‘I attribute...

jtotheizzoe: Observing the Sun Like Never Before Wow. You’ve...

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 21:49:28 +0200

jtotheizzoe:

Observing the Sun Like Never Before

Wow. You’ve never seen the Sun quite like this. NASA visualization artists have taken video images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory and used a beautiful gradient filtering method to bring out details often lost to scientist’s eyes.

Magnetic turbulence, originating deep within our star, causes loops of energized solar material to erupt from the Sun’s surface. But they can be very hard to detect with the bright star behind them. So by processing these images through a gradient filter, the resulting video is both hauntingly beautiful while allowing obscure details of solar storms to be viewed by researchers.

Full screen, HD … you know the awesome drill.

(via io9)

Musee des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 13:58:00 +0200

About suffering they were never wrong, The old Masters: how well they understood Its human position;...

Rod Serling on Writing

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 19:02:00 +0200

Discusses various aspects of writing with a group of students.

jtotheizzoe: The crowd in Times Square watching the Curiosity...

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 21:49:38 +0200

jtotheizzoe:

The crowd in Times Square watching the Curiosity landing. It’s amazing to see so many people come together for such a phenomenal moment.

(via @bluemilker on Twitter)

London's Chap Olympiad 2012

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:17:00 +0200

London’s Chap Olympiad describes itself as a celebration of eccentricity and athletic...

White Ravens on Vancouver Island, Canada According to legend,...

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:17:00 +0200

White Ravens on Vancouver Island, Canada

According to legend, Raven was originally white and had a beautiful voice. Unfortunately, the Gods were unhappy with the greed and corruption on earth and decided to take away the fire. Without heat, the earth was turning into a frozen hell. Raven volunteered to fly to the sun and bring back the fire. Up he flew with a branch in his bill. As he neared the sun his feathers were all singed and his larynx was half-cooked, but the branch ignited. Raven returned to earth a hero, but became shy and reclusive because of his blackened feathers and the loss of his beautiful voice. From that day on, all Ravens were black, but occasionally a white offspring is born to remind everyone of the great sacrifice made by Raven.

- photographer Mike Yip { http://www.vancouverislandbirds.com }

What is the Higgs boson? “Scientists at Cern, the...

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:59:00 +0200

What is the Higgs boson?

“Scientists at Cern, the Geneva-based European laboratory for particle physics, are revealing their latest findings in their search for the Higgs boson. Here, science correspondent Ian Sample – author of Massive: The Hunt for the God Particle – explains what a Higgs boson is, how Cern physicists are looking for it, and why it matters if they find it.”

-video & text from The Guardian (Thanks!)

Beauty

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 21:13:45 +0200

“That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more...

Organic Gardening Spray for Insect Pests, Rust, Powdery Mildew...

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 14:26:00 +0200

I use this mixture to get rid of all garden pests (aphids, white fly, etc.) — just spray it...

Schopenhauer's Porcupines, or, how to manage your spiky pigs

Tue, 22 May 2012 20:18:00 +0200

What is a “Stachelschweine” exactly? It seems to literally translate as a “spiky...

James Hart Dyke, Waiting in the hotel room, 2010, oil on canvas. The artist was offered a mission...

Sun, 20 May 2012 18:27:00 +0200

James Hart Dyke, Waiting in the hotel room, 2010, oil on canvas. The artist was offered a mission...

Your dose of whimsey for the day.

Thu, 17 May 2012 12:46:58 +0200

Your dose of whimsey for the day.

Delightfully surreal to see the Penguin penguin animated!

Tue, 08 May 2012 13:36:14 +0200

Delightfully surreal to see the Penguin penguin animated!

The Buried Life by Matthew Arnold

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:20:35 +0200

Light flows our war of mocking words, and yet, Behold, with tears mine eyes are wet! I feel a...

Wonderful pastries and prosecco in Venice…

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:35:00 +0100

Wonderful pastries and prosecco in Venice…

Richard Tauber singing his own composition “Du bist die...

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:22:00 +0100

Richard Tauber singing his own composition “Du bist die Welt für mich” (You Are All the World to Me”), 1934 Odeon.

Wild Swimming, preview of BBC documentary by Alice Roberts,...

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 23:26:55 +0100

Wild Swimming, preview of BBC documentary by Alice Roberts, inspired by Roger Deakin’s Waterlog