IIRC, This Is A Computer Model For What's Going To Happen When The Milky Way (our Galaxy) Collides With

I’ve always assumed that history is fully as speculative a discipline as writing science fiction. Our narrative of history changes as we go along, and hundred years from now, the deep past—assuming that technology continues to emerge at the same rate—the deep human past that those people will be able to see will be quite unrecognizable to us.

William Gibson [x] (via edwardspoonhands)

Mechanical Principles by Ralph Steiner (1930)

In the creative mathematics, the role of proof is in no way restricted to its function of carrier of conviction. Otherwise, there would be no need for Carl Friedrich Gauss to consider eight (!) different proofs of the law of quadratic reciprocity. One metaphor of proof is a route, which might be a desert track boring and unimpressive until one finally reaches the oasis of ones destination, or a foot path in green hills, exciting and energizing, opening great vistas of unexplored lands and seductive offshoots, leading far away even after the initial destination point has been reached.

Yuri Manin, Foundations as Superstructure (Reflections of a practicing mathematician)

The planet Mars on September 25, 1977, as seen by the Viking 2 lander.

(NASA)

(via This infographic from 1897 show the entire American Civil War on a single map - Geoawesomeness)

InfoVis is definitely not a new thing

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Bedruthan Steps, Cornwall | England (by Ian Percival)

This is what I thought about 98.7 until I started listening to it daily a few weeks ago.  The other day I heard the same song twice, once coming home and once coming to school. I live TEN MINUTES away.  Although the lack of nuance is quite dissatisfying at times, it's still miles better than most of the other stations.

Day 17: A Song You Hear Often on the Radio.

Well I’m weird because i almost never listen to the radio, first of all, and second of all, I listen to 98.7 which is like 60s, 70s, 80s music and I’ve never heard the same song played twice.  so.  Yeah.