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Make a choice. Just decide, what it's gonna be, who you're gonna be, how you're gonna do it. Just decide. And from that point, the universe is gonna get out your way, and if the universe can't stop you, then no one can. It's that simple.
Thomas Edison’s To-Do List, 1888
Well, if this doesn’t inspire you to be more productive, what will? What are you doing today?
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Two More Elements Added to The Periodic Table
You can now greet by name two new residents of the period table of elements: Flerovium and Livermorium.
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry officially approved names for the elements — which sit at slot 114 and 116, respectively — on 31 May. They have until now gone by the temporary monikers ununquadium and ununhexium.
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Scientists and engineers can indeed change the world. So can you. You were born to.
Regina Dugan. She’s right. You can.
From her TED talk: “From mach-20 glider to humming bird drone”
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56 years of tornado tracks, visualized.
Beautiful destruction.
Did you see Dear World’s tribute to the Joplin tornado victims? It’s touching stuff.
Wernher von Braun stands in front of his Saturn V.
I’m still amazing that these massive fucking rockets ever got off the ground. Imagine the power that burst from those giant nozzles.
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To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.
Lord Byron, on the paradox of being original and combining previous influences. A crisis of any creator, artistic or scientific.
Maria Popova assembles a masterful collection of advice to reconcile this paradox: The Art of Scientific Investigation (1957), Part I: The Role of Openness and Serendipity in Creativity and Discovery
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Emotionally Vague is a research project about the body and emotion, asking “How do people feel anger, joy, love, fear, and sadness?”
In the process, 250 individuals were asked to draw how each emotion felt in to them. These are the combined results.
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