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05. 23. 13. 01:36 am ♥ 1090

it8bit:

MetroPixelated

Created by The Daily Robot

Prints for Boston, Seattle and Chicago available at Etsy.

the-daily-robot: These are the first 3 entries in what I hope becomes a continuing series of designs depicting actual cityscapes in the graphical style of NES/Famicom games.  The first 3 - Boston, Chicago, and Seattle, are available now as prints at my Etsy store, and will shortly be available on shirts and device cases at my RedBubble shop.  Each has a daytime/sunset version, so you can pick your preferred magic hour.

I want to make more pieces like these, so if you want to see your city in 8-bit glory let me know, since I’m open to suggestions!

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04. 12. 13. 09:36 am ♥ 50
guardian: A researcher with holds a coqui guajón or Puerto Rican rock frog (Eleutherodactylus cooki) in a tropical forest in Patillas, Puerto Rico. Taken from the week in wildlife - our team’s pick of nature photographs from around the world. Photograph: Ricardo Arduengo/AP High-res

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A researcher with holds a coqui guajón or Puerto Rican rock frog (Eleutherodactylus cooki) in a tropical forest in Patillas, Puerto Rico. Taken from the week in wildlife - our team’s pick of nature photographs from around the world.

Photograph:

Ricardo Arduengo/AP

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03. 14. 13. 04:02 pm ♥ 6314
raylenelailee: fuckyeahbasketballbkn: Derrick Rose offered to pay for Jonylah Watkins’ funeral, a six-month-old baby girl who was shot 5 times to death in the south side of Chicago due to gang violence. May this poor little child rest in peace and god bless Derrick Rose for his kindness. FULL STORY HERE Damn. High-res

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fuckyeahbasketballbkn:

Derrick Rose offered to pay for Jonylah Watkins’ funeral, a six-month-old baby girl who was shot 5 times to death in the south side of Chicago due to gang violence. May this poor little child rest in peace and god bless Derrick Rose for his kindness.

FULL STORY HERE

Damn.

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03. 11. 13. 03:12 am ♥ 1005
inothernews: Google awesomely marks what would’ve been author Douglas Adams’s 61st birthday and reminds us that the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was, in fact, an e-book you could get on a Kindle.  :-) High-res

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Google awesomely marks what would’ve been author Douglas Adams’s 61st birthday and reminds us that the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was, in fact, an e-book you could get on a Kindle.  :-)

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03. 05. 13. 02:24 pm ♥ 378
guardian: Koyuki Higashi and Hiroko smile as they show their marriage rings at their wedding reception in Tokyo. Two lesbians have become the first gay couple to tie the knot at Tokyo Disney Resort, both wore white dresses despite an initial ruling that one had to wear men’s clothes. The event was the first gay wedding in the popular amusement park even though gay marriage has no legal standing in Japan. Photograph: Tatsunari Ueno/AFP/Getty Images High-res

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Koyuki Higashi and Hiroko smile as they show their marriage rings at their wedding reception in Tokyo. Two lesbians have become the first gay couple to tie the knot at Tokyo Disney Resort, both wore white dresses despite an initial ruling that one had to wear men’s clothes. The event was the first gay wedding in the popular amusement park even though gay marriage has no legal standing in Japan. Photograph: Tatsunari Ueno/AFP/Getty Images

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04. 12. 13. 11:12 am ♥ 63
letsbuildahome-fr: Hundreds of walruses have found themselves a new home on an iceberg 20 miles off shore. The giant marine mammals pile onto the ice and huddle together as they relax on their island. They are taking a break from hunting in the Chukchi Sea, 20 miles off the coast of Alaska, and the moving ice even helps them find their meals. Picture: Solent/Steven Kazlowski/SeaPics High-res

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Hundreds of walruses have found themselves a new home on an iceberg 20 miles off shore. The giant marine mammals pile onto the ice and huddle together as they relax on their island. They are taking a break from hunting in the Chukchi Sea, 20 miles off the coast of Alaska, and the moving ice even helps them find their meals.

Picture: Solent/Steven Kazlowski/SeaPics

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04. 11. 13. 01:36 am ♥ 2297

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Leo Caillard - Art Games (2011)

“Artists have used Apple products to create gorgeous works of art and have featured the devices themselves as pieces of sculpture. There’s even an Apple store at the Louvre museum in Paris.

But what happens when you create a museum layout taking cues from the minimalistic user interface familiar to millions of Apple customers? Caillard has done exactly that with his series of digitally enhanced photographs that re-imagine the Louvre museum.

Caillard’s images show museum patrons interacting with priceless paintings the way someone might browse through slides in a personal iTunes library on a device like an iPhone or MacBook.”

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03. 14. 13. 02:24 pm ♥ 3001
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03. 11. 13. 01:36 am ♥ 9916
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02. 28. 13. 04:01 pm ♥ 149
cozydark: Hunt for Distant Planets Intensifies | When astronomers discovered planet GJ 1214b circling a star more than 47 light-years from Earth in 2009, their data presented two possibilities. Either it was a mini-Neptune shrouded in a thick atmosphere of hydrogen and helium, or it was a water world nearly three times the size of Earth. Along came Jacob Bean, now an assistant professor in astronomy & astrophysics at the University of Chicago, who used a new method called multi-object spectroscopy to analyze the planet’s atmosphere from large, ground-based telescopes. Aided by technology, Bean and his colleagues are surmounting the challenge of inferring the atmospheric composition of planets that were invisible to humans just a few years ago. “We’re trying to distinguish whether it’s like the gas giants we know about, or something fundamentally different from what we’ve seen in our solar system — an atmosphere predominantly composed of water,” Bean said. The search for exoplanets - planets beyond our own solar system - has taken off over the last decade, and is now a growing component of UChicago’s research agenda in astronomy. One estimate published in January calculated that our Milky Way galaxy alone contains at least 17 billion Earth-sized planets, with a vast potential for life-sustaining worlds. Pursuing the exoplanet search via complementary methods are Bean and Daniel Fabrycky, another assistant professor in astronomy & astrophysics. continue reading High-res

cozydark:

Hunt for Distant Planets Intensifies |

When astronomers discovered planet GJ 1214b circling a star more than 47 light-years from Earth in 2009, their data presented two possibilities. Either it was a mini-Neptune shrouded in a thick atmosphere of hydrogen and helium, or it was a water world nearly three times the size of Earth.

Along came Jacob Bean, now an assistant professor in astronomy & astrophysics at the University of Chicago, who used a new method called multi-object spectroscopy to analyze the planet’s atmosphere from large, ground-based telescopes. Aided by technology, Bean and his colleagues are surmounting the challenge of inferring the atmospheric composition of planets that were invisible to humans just a few years ago.

“We’re trying to distinguish whether it’s like the gas giants we know about, or something fundamentally different from what we’ve seen in our solar system — an atmosphere predominantly composed of water,” Bean said.

The search for exoplanets - planets beyond our own solar system - has taken off over the last decade, and is now a growing component of UChicago’s research agenda in astronomy. One estimate published in January calculated that our Milky Way galaxy alone contains at least 17 billion Earth-sized planets, with a vast potential for life-sustaining worlds. Pursuing the exoplanet search via complementary methods are Bean and Daniel Fabrycky, another assistant professor in astronomy & astrophysics. continue reading

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