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POPSEarth as Art Gallery I have only one thing to say about this site: AWESOME! Not in the surfer use either. Truly, an experience leaving you catching your breath.
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POPSMirrors Don’t Lie.. : -) “When people are made to be self-aware, they are likelier to stop and think about what they are doing,” Dr. Bodenhausen said. “A byproduct of that awareness may be a shift away from acting on autopilot toward more desirable ways of behaving.” Physical self-reflection, in other words, encourages philosophical self-reflection, a crash course in the Socratic notion that you cannot know or appreciate others until you know yourself. "
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POPSIran: You Suck At Photoshop. Here's the caption on the NYT illustration above: In the four-missile version of the image released Wednesday by Sepah News, the media arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, two major sections (encircled in red) appear to closely replicate other sections (encircled in orange).
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POPSFor Invictus Just in case the image is blocked, the date is July 19th. The comic is Argyle Sweater.
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POPSWater on Mars A color-enhanced image of the delta in Jezero Crater, which once held a lake. Researchers led by CRISM team member and Brown graduate student Bethany Ehlmann report that ancient rivers ferried clay-like minerals (shown in green) into the lake, forming the delta. Clays tend to trap and preserve organic matter, making the delta a good place to look for signs of ancient life.
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POPSObama Campaign is wrong about New Yorker Caricature There's too much sensitivity from the Obama campaign over the New Yorker caricature. The illustration clearly satirizes the absurd notion that the Obamas are covert Islamic terrorists hellbent on destroying the US. It mocks the ridiculous idea visually.
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POPSThe Man in the Moon, Jesus, EVPs and Inkblots Ever wonder what our tendency to make structure, pictures and sound out of what some may think is meaningless stimuli? It is called pareidolia and this small article gives a damn good definition. Visit the source to read Carl Sagan's view on what the explanation for our brain to do this is...
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POPSQuick, free, online photo re-sizer Quickly changes photo dimensions or file size to optimize photos in seconds for your blog or application. Because it's so simple, I use this sooner or later every week. No registration, no software download.