Tom Scrace
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Feynman on chess and science.
Feynman :: Rules of Chess (via defjam99b)
Inspiring tour around Craig Venter’s lab.
Craig Venter - The Genius of Charles Darwin: The Uncut Interviews - Richard Dawkins (via richarddawkinsdotnet)
NASA:
“A fortuitous orbit of the International Space Station allowed the astronauts this striking view of Sarychev Volcano (Kuril Islands, northeast of Japan) in an early stage of eruption on June 12, 2009.”
STS-125 Astronaut Mike Massimino on seeing the Earth from orbit.
Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party
(via Vimeo)
Hypnotic.
Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, organ (via smalin)
Don’t know how I missed this one, but yesterday was the 19th annioversary of the deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope.
To celebrate, NASA released the above image, which shows a trio of galaxies. The top two galaxies are in the process of colliding, while there appears to be a stream of matter connecting the bottom galaxy to the pair above. In fact this third galaxy is behind the other two, and is not connected at all. The arm is made up of new born blue stars.
Earth view from ISS window, HD (via benwl)
From the front cover of yesterday’s Sunday Times News Review.
