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You are insignificant →
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Related Rates Without Using Calculus →
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Mamihlapinatapai
aaylaveau: “a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that they both desire but which neither one wants to start.” Guinness Book of World Records as the “most succinct word”, and is considered one of the hardest words to translate. Wiki 
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“Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on...”
– Arnold H. Glasow.
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“To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough...”
– Leonard Bernstein
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Calculus for the Second Grader | NYTimes →
Imagine that you find yourself to be a guest at an anniversary celebration of a federation colony on some strange cratered planetoid. The colonists are staging a high-tech celebration. They fire a cannonball into the night sky. In its wake, the cannonball leaves behind a luminous rainbow trail made up of nondispersing pigments. … You are in the audience … watching from the surface...
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14 Facts About the Brain →
houseofmind: Your brain contains 60 billion cells.  Each cell carries, on average 7000 connections to other cells.  Yet your brain only weighs 3 pounds and uses just 10-23 watts of energy per day. Each year you will lose about 3.3 million brain cells.  There is no truth in the myth that we only use 10% of brain power.   The brain is capable of storing 10 trillion bits of information...
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“If I ran a school, I’d give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the...”
– R. Buckminster Fuller (via commondense) (via iamgenevievee) I used to know the right answers… Not so much anymore. (via rainhastefani)
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The flattest material in the world | PhysOrg →
The Nobel Prize for physics goes to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, both Russian-born physicists now working at the University of Manchester in the U.K., for their discovery of graphene. Graphene is a sheet-like substance made of carbon atoms bonded together in a repeating hexagonal pattern. It is the first essentially two-dimensional material ever made. Being the thinnest piece of...
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G is for Goldilocks →
Gliese 581G is the most promising habitable world astronomers have found so far. But the chances of finding life there are vanishingly slim.
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Why the Brain Doubts a Foreign Accent: Scientific... →
What happens in the brain when you hear an accent—and why you are less likely to trust the speaker.
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25 Kickass Skydiving Pictures →
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