What bothers you most about someone else is often a clue about what you don't like about your own circumstances ... or, a political cartoonist could point it out instead.
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
Do you ever think about how most people choose to spend their time?
As you might guess, average Americans spend 8 hours at work, maybe half an hour in traffic, a few hours watching TV in the evening.
But what if you looked at it another way - what if you added up all those hours over the course of your whole life? The following infographic shows the tally.
That half an hour in traffic adds up to over a year of your life. And those innocent hours of TV? They add up to 9 years for the average American.
"It's not the years in your life that count ... It's the life in your years." ~ Abraham Lincoln
Are you giving time to the things you really care about?
Boehner
Turns Down Invitation to Visit Pope. President Obama invited John
Boehner to travel with Vice President Joe Biden to Rome to watch the Roman
Catholic Church install its first pope from the Americas in its 2,000-year
history. (WSJ Video)
How
Rich Is the Catholic Church? Nobody really knows, because religious groups
don’t need to follow regular accounting and disclosure rules. (Slate)
It is easy to get lost in the admistrivia of day-to-day life. Here is a quick antidote for that.
International Space Station astronaut Don
Pettit lived on the station for about a year, and took many pictures while up there. The results of his innovative photographic work and passion have changed
the way we see earth from space.
Next, astrophotographer Christoph Malin took thousands of Pettit's individual photos and animated them, adding clips of Pettit giving a talk about his stay aboard
the ISS and his photography there. He also set it to music, creating a simply stunning time-lapse video.
The result is certainly worth watching. So, set aside 16
minutes of your busy day, sit back, and soak this in: “The ISS Image Frontier”.
The video presents an interesting perspective of our planet.
Many astronauts, even from back in the Apollo days, talk
about an incredible feeling they get after a few days in space. As they gaze on
the Earth from above, they lose their feeling of borders and nationality. The
Saudi astronaut Sultan bin Salman Al-Saud, who flew on the Space Shuttle in
1985, commented on this, saying ,
“The first day or so we all pointed to our countries. The third or fourth day
we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day, we were aware of only one
Earth.”
On a different note, the technique where they create a composite view of a visual time series is facinating. It makes the invisible visible ... and has many uses in the big data space as well. Very cool!
There is more ... This quote from the Washingtonian's Sophie Gilbert says a lot about Washington.
To press seated just below the [inauguration] podium, in front of the 'President's Own' Marine Corps Band, it was evident that the band wasn't actually playing during [Beyoncé's rendition of the national anthem] -- even though band director Colonel Michael J. Colburn was conducting energetically and the band members mimicked blowing into their instruments.
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
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So there is a new Pope. They probably didn't pick him this way.
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
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