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MyCube - social exchange
MyCube is the world’s first social exchange, a combination of a privacy-focused social network with a rich content exchange.
MyCube allows individuals and organizations to interact with others on their own terms, with full control over their information, content and privacy; provides robust publishing tools allowing the creation of everything from short updates to full multi-media articles; and...
WatchThe People Of Walmart Song Video Okay, people. We should not find this funny. We should find it sad. I think. Maybe. Not sure.
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Memorial Day brings to mind poems of war, soldiers and remembrance. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the American Civil War, and May 31 is also Walt Whitman’s birthday…
Memorial Day Poetry →
Memorial Day brings to mind poems of war, soldiers and remembrance. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the American Civil War, and May 31 is also Walt…
Hah!
“Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies.” — E.B. White
“dissected” LEGO frog
The Antikythera Mechanism – Ancient Analog... →
In 1902, archaeologist Valerios Stais discovered the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient analog computer from the first or second century B.C., that was used to calculate the position of the sun, moon,…
Submit Your Poetry This Summer →
Is summer a time that you have more time for your writing - and to mail off poems for publication? Poet Diane Lockward has again posted on her blog a useful, updated list (in 3 parts) of print…
Why do we Sleep? Still not sure →
Why do we Sleep? Scientists are Still Trying to Find Out To see the full article with photos and links, go to National Georgraphic.
We spend a third of our lives asleep, but sleep researchers still don’t know why. Some researchers regard sleep as one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of science, even though all animals do it in one form or…
“One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.” — Dorothea Lange, photographer
Social media Analytics in Higher Education →
Educational institutions are generally slower to adapt technologies than the general public and businesses. One reason is that it’s hard to measure the return on investment (ROI, to use business…
The Mountain and The Milky Way →
The Mountain from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo
This was filmed between 4th and 11th April 2011 by Sorgjerd while visiting El Teide, Spain´s highest mountain. It is one of the…
Changes Ahead For NJ State Parks →
http://www.state.nj.us/dep/parksandforests/parks/bass.htmlVisitors to NJ might find themselves paying more to take advantage to our state parks in the future, but they might find expanded services or…
Let Evening Come
by Jane Kenyon
Let the light of late afternoon
shine through chinks in the barn, moving
up the bales as the sun moves down.
Let the cricket take up chafing
as a woman takes up her needles
and her yarn. Let evening come.
Let dew collect on the hoe abandoned
in long grass. Let the stars appear
and the moon disclose her silver horn.
Let the fox go back to its sandy den.
Let the wind die down. Let...
Submit Poems of War and Remembrance →
The anthology of classic war poems collected on the About.com poetry pages are in remembrance of those who gave their lives in the many wars fought in human history. This year with Memorial Day…
The Man Who Created, Murdered and Resurrected... →
It is the birthday of the man who created, murdered and then resurrected Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland. He studied medicine at the…
Today is the International Day for Biological... →
The theme for this year’s IDB is Forest Biodiversity because 2011 is the International Year of the Forests.
Never heard of it? That figures.
consciousness creates order in the world
Checking for any disruptions in The Force — The Global Consciousness Project at Princeton University “Meaningful Correlations in Random Data”
The Sonnets
Shakespeare’s sonnets were first published this monthin 1609, most likely without Shakespeare’s permission.
The book contained 154 sonnets, all but two of which had never been published before. Shakespeare (or perhaps the publisher Thomas Thorpe) dedicated the collection to “Mr. W.H.” whose identity has never been known. The poems are about love, sex, politics, youth, and the mysterious “Dark...
Area 51
If you have heard of Area 51, I suspect it has something to do with aliens and UFOs. It’s a real place 75 miles north of Las Vegas. It is one area outside of the abandoned Nevada Test and Training Range. Officially, the U.S. government has never acknowledged that it even exists and so it has become the basis of conspiracy theories, and speculation about aliens and spaceships.
For real,...
Roth Wins Man Booker Prize
Philip Roth has won the Man Booker International Prize. Not all the judges were thrilled. One was so annoyed with the decision to honor Roth, she resigned from the judging panel.
