These 14 Images Compare Life Today With How It Used To Be. The Difference Is Hilarious!

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Things certainly aren’t like they used to be. It’s sometimes hard to tell if we’re just aging and getting grouchy, if we just don’t understand the way things are changing, or if things really are getting crappier. One thing is for sure, things have changed. Enjoy.

(Official Movie) THRIVE: What On Earth Will It Take?

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Published on Apr 5, 2012 by ThriveMovement
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 Film Synopsis: THRIVE is an unconventional documentary that lifts the veil on what's REALLY going on in our world by following the money upstream -- uncovering the global consolidation of power in nearly every aspect of our lives. Weaving together breakthroughs in science, consciousness and activism, THRIVE offers real solutions, empowering us with unprecedented and bold strategies for reclaiming our lives and our future. 

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Extreme Close-Ups: 16 Mind-Blowing Macro Nature Photos

By Steph in Animals & Habitats, Nature & Ecosystems

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Have you ever watched a grasshopper scratch its chin, or examined all of the tiny hairs on the face of a bee? Have you seen the world around you reflected in a drop of dew? Unless you’re a macro photographer – taking extreme close-up images of insects, flowers and other objects – you’ve probably never had the chance. These 16 amazing photographs give us up-close-and-personal views of flowers, creepy-crawlies, geckos and water droplets.

Best Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2011

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Dr. Marek Kukula (Marek Kukula), an astronomer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, invites readers to make a space trip by these photographs, which depicted the most vivid "tourist" attractions of our solar system. This collection of photographs was provided in connection with the start of the contest "Best Photographer astronomer-2011» (Astronomy Photographer of the Year), conducted by the Royal Observatory.The competition is only the photos taken by people.

Music video by A Perfect Circle performing Imagine

The Green Universe: Richard Feynman and "The Beauty of a Flower"

Link: http://sierraclub.typepad.com/greenlife/2012/03/green-perspectives-richard-feynman.html

March 28, 2012

The Green Universe: Richard Feynman

Sensational news stories can make badly behaved celebrities and bickering politicians seem larger than life. Luckily, the scientists who study the vast universe maintain a different perspective. This week, we'll bring you quotes and videos that reveal nature's star power.

Richard Feynman and "The Beauty of a Flower"

"I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing; I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers, which might be wrong."

 Watch the video below to hear Feynman's thoughts on beauty and doubt.

--photo courtesy of NASA; video by Reid Gower

The Green Universe: Neil deGrasse Tyson's "Most Astounding Fact"

Link: http://sierraclub.typepad.com/greenlife/2012/03/green-perspectives-neil-degrasse-tyson.html

March 27, 2012

The Green Universe: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Sensational news stories can make badly behaved celebrities and bickering politicians seem larger than life. Luckily, the scientists who study the vast universe maintain a different perspective. This week, we'll bring you quotes and videos that reveal nature's star power.

Neil deGrasse Tyson's "Most Astounding Fact"

"I know that, yes, we are part of this universe, we are in the universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the universe is in us."

Watch the video below to hear the astrophysicist explain this awe-inspiring concept.

--photo courtesy of NASA; video by MaxSchlick

The Green Universe: Carl Sagan and the "Pale Blue Dot"

Link: http://sierraclub.typepad.com/greenlife/2012/03/green-perspec.html

March 26, 2012

The Green Universe: Carl Sagan

Sensational news stories can make badly behaved celebrities and bickering politicians seem larger than life. Luckily, the scientists who study the vast universe maintain a different perspective. This week, we'll bring you quotes and videos that reveal nature's star power.

Carl Sagan and the "Pale Blue Dot"

It might look like a grainy photograph, but take a closer look. See that tiny little dot in the middle of the yellowish band of light? Carl Sagan asked the NASA operators of the Voyager I to snap this picture as the spacecraft was leaving our solar system, to remind us of this very simple fact: "Everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was lived out their life . . . lived there."

Watch the video below to see our home planet in a new light:

--photo courtesy of NASA; video by Pale Blue Films

Paul Gilding: The Earth is full | TED talk

What the future holds...
What collaboration looks like...
What is worth doing...by our being...

 

And on a more positive note!! JjE

Would like to share these!

I have taken all except for the last two!

Please Enjoy things from my eyes--or rather the lens of my camera!

Anyone need a photographer? I only have two cameras.........an old Pentax 35mm and newer small Panasonic 10 mp.

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