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Earth at Night (4)
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Earth at Night Credit: C. Mayhew & R. Simmon (NASA/GSFC), NOAA/NGDC, DMSP Digital Archive Explanation: This is what the Earth looks like at night. Can you find your favorite country or city? Surprisingly, city lights make this task quite possible. Human-made lights highlight particularly developed or populated areas of the Earth's surface, including the seaboards of Europe, the eastern United States, and Japan. Many large cities are located near rivers or oceans so that they ...- Travis Swicegood said: I want to move to central Australia
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Cricinfo - Elegy for the long player (1)
permalinkI am less enamoured of world cricket these days. It is a noisy game, full of boastful official chatter, where manners on the field have become disposable, and Twenty20 threatens to derail everything else. The best love affairs, anyway, come in our youth, and these men I grew up with. Always I watched them. Now especially, even though occasionally it is painful to see them lurch and stagger, feet mixed up and bat late. But ...Shared by Nishith Prabhakar (33)
- Nishith Prabhakar said: brijnath does it again
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10/03/08 PHD comic: 'Sleep' (21)
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Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: "Sleep" - originally published 10/3/2008 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!Shared by ab_aditya (27) Andrew Walkingshaw (24) Bryant (6) Charles A. Tatossian (3) Chung (110) darkeye11547 (167) Gandhi (44) harith (18) jaidev (3) Jonathan (17) jritch (20) Justin (20) Lauro (25) Nima (85) Nishith Prabhakar (33) Sandra (21) Thaisa (4) vim (31) Xavier (8) xeophin (7) Zane Shelby (2)- Nishith Prabhakar said: how often does THAT happen!
- Andrew Walkingshaw said: Too true.
- Gandhi said: jajajajajaEsas noches de... va, me duermo rapido, que solo voy a dormir x horas!!Resultado --> Tiempo dormido = x horas - 30 minutos
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A Solar Prominence Unfurls (9)
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A Solar Prominence Unfurls On September 29, this magnificent eruptive solar prominence lifted away from the Sun's surface, unfurling into space over the course of several hours. Suspended in twisted magnetic fields, the hot plasma structure is many times the size of planet Earth and was captured in this view by the Sun-watching STEREO (Ahead) spacecraft. The image was recorded in extreme ultraviolet light emitted by ionized Helium, an element originally identified in the solar ...Shared by annacoder (11) B (15) clickykbd (7) Goatlady (22) Jeff (20) Jordan Brock (18) Nishith Prabhakar (33) Saarikorpi (26) tietoukka (82)- B said: I thought there was a full moon, but this explains why my day was so whack
- Jordan Brock said: oh man. click on the link to the video. amazing.
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Web Platform Installer: Trying to make it easier to setup for web development (9)
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There's a renewed focus, in my opinion, to make things easier to find around The Big Blue Monster. I'm working with a bunch of folks on a more official version of http://www.smalle... and some changes around making the .NET Framework easier to find, as a small example. Getting a machine up to speed for Web Development is another thing that's kind of a hassle because you need to go get (and know to go get) ...Shared by Alexandru Savu (29) androcles (20) Bramha (7) Loyolny (13) Mark (21) Nishith Prabhakar (33) Ryan Versaw (30) Shine (20) Yiding (11)- androcles said: Que bien! Un instalador para desarrollo web... es un dolor tener que bajar e instalar tantas cosas
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Dear Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan (2)
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Dear Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan BBC reports that you have recently called on women in Saudi Arabia to “wear a full veil, or niqab, that reveals only one eye.” You say that “showing both eyes encourage[s] women to use eye make-up to look seductive.” I believe, sir, that showing only one eye will make matters worse. You see, whenever a woman and a man are together and the woman blinks, the man might think that she ...Shared by Nishith Prabhakar (33) V-Mo (42)Contribute comment -
Best info about the financial crisis (11)
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The Money Meltdown is a one-page site which aims to provide visitors with the best places to go online to get a handle on the current financial crisis. (thx, robin) (link)Shared by Alex (95) Chris (42) Craig (20) David (21) julienk (14) Linkletter (20) Mike Champion (1) Nichol (31) Nishith Prabhakar (33) phrakture (20) zed (20)Contribute comment -
Flight pattern maps (9)
onA map of the world showing a simulation of all of the air traffic in a 24-hour period. Here's a higher-quality video. Like Aaron Koblin's Flight Patterns videos, only not just covering North America. (link)Shared by Ben (21) Brian (23) Coolbox (20) Gautam (23) Graham (20) Kellie (16) Nichol (31) Nishith Prabhakar (33) Scribeoflight (55)
- Ben said: watch it in higher def. It's incredible.
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Casualties of the Financial Crisis (5)
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Great graphic depicting the size of various bailouts around the globe, from 2007-08: > click for ginormous graphic > Excerpt:"Barely a week after Europeans rebuffed American pleas to join in their bailout of the banking system, Europe now faces a financial crisis almost as grave as that in the United States — demonstrating how swiftly this contagion is spreading around the world.In the last two days, governments from London to Berlin have seized or bailed ...- Nishith Prabhakar said: NYT graphics are the best!
- Geoffrey Wiseman said: Wow - more scary news.
- Sinan Yüce said: iyipara - Kredi krizinin başından itibaren batan bankaların bilgisini gösteren güzel bir tablo.
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PHD Comics: Enrollment vs. Unemployment Rate (48)
onPiled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: "Enrollment vs. Unemployment Rate" - originally published 10/1/2008 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!Shared by | Balu | (25) a77ila (26) ab_aditya (27) AlexT (20) Andrew Gwozdziewycz (21) Andrew Walkingshaw (24) ash (20) Borzo (17) cassio (6) Chung (110) Dan (54) Daniel Doro Ferrante (20) Derick Valadao (36) Donnie Berkholz (19) Erik (46) focoma (17) Gandhi (44) Greg (8) hober (23) J. James B (14) Jaron (12) Jason (19) JBu92 (30) jmvidal (14) Joey Doll (2) John Halton (21) Jonathan (17) jritch (20) Justin (20) Karin (31) Kris (39) Li, Ao (19) mcphee (8) Neil (2) nikewong (13) Nishith Prabhakar (33) Ozgur Alaz, Marketallica (38) Panayiotis (1) Pezz (15) Piaw (19) Roger (94) Roshni (6) Roy (15) Saket (27) Satyajit Grover (19) Solon (20) Varun Nair (9) Yerameyahu (66)Explore read five notes
- Satyajit Grover said: Grad school enrollment and unemployment rate are strongly correlated. Fascinating!
- Derick Valadao said: Ouch :S
- jmvidal said: Looks like we can expect graduate enrolments to go keep going up. This is especially true for CSE as many of the finance people love computers and numbers (and the money you can make programming).
- John Halton said: I'm sure a similar correlation exists between graduate unemployment rates and people doing post-grad teacher training.
- ash said: Brilliant correlation!
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Preparing for the jubilee…or tribulation [Pharyngula] (3)
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Today is the day we all dread, the day of the vice-presidential debates. We know Sarah Palin is incompetent and not fit for office, but the question is…will she manage to pull off the spunky/cute routine and win over the superficial morons of the country despite her Bush-like anti-intellectualism and lack of curiosity, even if she does execute a few major flubs? Will Biden throw away a victory by looking pretentious? We shall find out ...Contribute comment - Outside.in's StoryMaps (1)
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Deepak Jois: Good Math, Bad Math : How Mortgages Turned into a Trillion Dollar Disaster (via Blog) (2)
onOk, another batch of questions have come in, all variants on the same theme. The question is, if mortgages are at the root of the current economic disaster, how can it possibly result in close to a trillion dollars worth of losses? It definitely seems strange, on two different levels. On an absolute scale, it's hard to see how mortgage losses could add up to a trillion dollars. And on a relative scale, it's hard ...Shared by Kristen (14) Nishith Prabhakar (33)Contribute comment
- Lucian Teo (friend of Deepak Jois): Sarah Palin is an overaged high school cheerleader in the wrong place at the wrong time. (via Twitter) (1)
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Deepak Jois: DNA - World - Zardari’s Palin flirt earns him a fatwa - Daily News & Analysis (via Google Reader) (2)
permalinkLal Masjid cleric dubs Pak Prez’s gestures un-Islamic.LAHORE: The prayer leader of the infamous Lal Masjid in the heart of Islamabad has issued a decree against President Asif Zardari for publicly making indecent gestures towards the American Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin during their Washington meeting, saying the act was un-Islamic and Zardari has shamed the entire Pakistani nation.Delivering a sermon at the Lal Masjid the other day, the prayer leader Maulana Abdul Ghafar, ...Shared by Nishith Prabhakar (33) vyom (12)
- vyom said: "The prayer leader of the infamous Lal Masjid in the heart of Islamabad has issued a decree against President Asif Zardari for publicly making indecent gestures towards the American Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin during their Washington meeting, saying the act was un-Islamic and Zardari has shamed the entire Pakistani nation." It just keeps getting better (via Arun Jacob)
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