Nasa camera captures 'fire-ball' over Texas

Exploring dark energy with the world's largest camera - Rough Cuts

Giant robot debuts in Japan - Rough Cuts

Minoean

"No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same."

Viktor Frankl, author, neurologist and psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor (1905-1997)

Timelapse views of Venice during the day and night

Youngblood Brass Band - Brooklyn

What is the airspeed velocity of a raindrop?

A very interesting article on fossil raindrops.

Man-ichean

"Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it."

Milan Kundera, novelist, playwright and poet (b. 1929)

One day at a time

 

"finish each day and be done with it. you have done what you could. some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. tomorrow is a new day. you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

R.W. Emerson.

 

Huge Saturn vortex swirls in stunning NASA photos | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Huge Saturn vortex swirls in stunning NASA photos | MNN - Mother Nature Network