Mon Oct 14, 2013 10:54 AM
Sun Oct 13, 2013 10:39 PM
The patch of sky a tiny grain of sand covers when you hold it up at arm’s length could be many light years in diameter, and contain up to 10,000 galaxies. Even more mind-blowing is the fact that because each galaxy contains 10 million to a thousand billion stars, your grain of sand could cover at least a hundred billion stars.
Read more: http://bit.ly/4xwhs9 via Physics.org
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Mon Oct 14, 2013 09:33 AM
Images via Wikimedia Commons The government shutdown and the raising of the debt ceiling — such things are not usually grist for our cultural mill. But all of that changes when a cultural theorist pins the blame for Washington’s dysfunction on the acolytes of a pseudo-philosopher. Open Culture, openculture.com
Mon Oct 14, 2013 10:54 AM
Fun way to pass the time in line besides Angry Birds.
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