19 Magical Bookshops Every Book Lover Must Visit. 37 Reasons Nick Miller Is The Perfect Crush. 15 Things Insomniacs Are Tired Of Hearing. 26 Amazing Gifts To Empower Little Girls. 10 Things That Happen When You Can't Put Down A Good Book. Led Zep rocks to victory with greatest riff: Whole Lotta Love beats Sweet Child O' Mine and Back in Black to win Radio 2 poll. Led Zeppelins's Whole Lotta Love named the greatest guitar riff of all timeRock song saw off competition from Metallica, Nirvana and White StripesGuitarist Jimmy Page: 'There's been so many wonderful riffs along the way'It topped a list of 100 as chosen by a panel of music experts and critics By Tom Pugh and Catherine Wylie, Daily Mail Reporter Published: 02:25 GMT, 26 August 2014 | Updated: 07:50 GMT, 26 August 2014 Guitar legend Jimmy Page, pictured performing during the 1970s, is responsible for the greatest ever guitar riff, according to BBC Radio 2 listeners Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love is the greatest guitar riff of all time, as chosen by BBC Radio 2 listeners.
In a list of the top 100, it beat rock legend contenders such as Metallica, Nirvana and The White Stripes to the top spot. The top five guitar riffs are completed by Guns 'N' Roses' Sweet Child O' Mine at two, AC/DC's Back in Black at three, Deep Purple's Smoke On The Water at four and Derek And The Dominoes' Layla at five. 4 things NASA can teach you about a good night's sleep. 10 Cool Things You Didn't Know About Stephen Hawking"
In 2004, the genius Hawking admitted he had been wrong and conceded a bet he made in 1997 with a fellow scientist about black holes. To understand the bet, let's backpedal a little to understand what black holes are in the first place. Stars are gigantic -- they have so much mass that their gravity is always incredibly strong. This is fine, as long as the star continues to burn its nuclear fuel, exerting this energy outward, thus counteracting gravity.
However, once a massive enough star "dies" or burns out, gravity becomes the stronger force, and causes that big star to collapse on itself. The gravity is so powerful in this collapse that not even light can escape. But, he said at the time, information is lost in the black hole that eventually evaporates. American theoretical physicist John Preskill disagreed with this conclusion that information is lost in black hole. Hawking is such a good sport that he can admit when he's wrong -- which he did in 2004. How to Download and Archive Your Social Media Memories | Gadget Lab. Esenkartal/Getty Every day, we throw tons of content online, in photos and emails and fleeting thoughts, but we don’t always back it up somewhere else. Part of this is because we trust the Cloud as something constant—something too big to fail.
After all, it’s not breakable like our laptops and smartphones. You can’t drop Google in the pool by mistake. It’s probably safe to assume that Twitter won’t disappear tomorrow . Aside from keeping files for backup, there are plenty of other reasons to download your digital life. Google, Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace all have very different takes on what to include and how to present your archive. Facebook: Scariest Amount of Data Once you’re logged on to your account, find the little down-pointing arrow at the top right corner and click “Settings”.
Facebook Inside the .zip file, open ‘index.htm’ to unfold an ad-free, easily navigable version of your profile. You’ll get the stuff you expected: your profile, your statuses, your messages and pokes. The Perfect Essay. Draft is a series about the art and craft of writing. Looking back on too many years of education, I can identify one truly impossible teacher. She cared about me, and my intellectual life, even when I didn’t. Her expectations were high — impossibly so. She was an English teacher. She was also my mother. When good students turn in an essay, they dream of their instructor returning it to them in exactly the same condition, save for a single word added in the margin of the final page: “Flawless.” My mother, who is just shy of five feet tall, is normally incredibly soft-spoken, but on the rare occasion when she got angry, she was terrifying. First off, it hurts. Criticism, at its best, is deeply personal, and gets to the heart of why we write the way we do.
Unfortunately, as my mother explained, you can be all of these things at once. Her red pen had made something painfully clear. It lasted three years. My mother said she would help me with my writing, but first I had to help myself. 20 of the most powerful quotes on heartbreak in literature. Readers' Poll: The 10 Best Guns N' Roses Songs Pictures - 1. November Rain. Why can't we solve the Amelia Earhart mystery. In the face of a mystery or lack of evidence, the imagination tends to fill in the gaps itself. We seem to have an innate need for finality, for a full, clear picture -- a need that finds us preferring wild conjecture to the questions in our heads. Such is the case with the disappearance of early aviatrix Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan. It's not enough to suppose that somewhere in the southwestern Pacific Ocean lies a Lockheed Electra two-seat airplane that may only be found by sheer chance, if at all. This leaves too much room for doubt, and a mystery has developed in the 70 years since she vanished.
To some, the 39-year-old Amelia Earhart was an American spy sent to carry out espionage against the Japanese, who caught and executed her. (Even though, the Japanese aided the search effort in the days following the disappearance.) To others, she survived the mission and was forced to become Tokyo Rose, the infamous wartime radio personality. 15 fantastičnih destinacija za koje niste znali | City Magazine. Iako svi želimo da jednom u životu posetimo znamenitosti poput Ajfelove kule ili Koloseuma, nešto magično nalazi se i u istraživanju onih mesta kroz koje nije prošlo tako mnogo ljudi. Predstavljamo vam 15 upravo takvih destinacija. 1. Les Jardins suspendus de Marqueyssac (Francuska) Ova neponovljiva bašta je svakog četvrtka tokom letnjih meseci otvorena noću i osvetljena hiljadama sveća.
Les Jardins suspendus de Marqueyssac 2. Quinta da Regaleira 3. Bastei most 4. Kapadokija 5. Naselje Popeye 6. Ai-Petry 7. Le Mont Saint-Michel 8. Kamene grobnice u Miri 9. Plava laguna 10. Oaza Huakačina 11. Pamukale 12. Fes 13. Taormina 14. Dolina Kadiša 15. Aleksandrijska biblioteka. 54 Amazing Facts About London That Will Blow Your Mind. Gyles Brandreth spent 50 years collecting the world's wittiest quotes. Gyles is the new editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Humorous QuotationsHe has been collecting scrapbooks of witty lines since he was a childBut it is a conundrum working out who said what first, to whom, and where By Gyles Brandreth Published: 00:39 GMT, 15 October 2013 | Updated: 10:29 GMT, 15 October 2013 Quotation addict: Gyles Brandreth, the new editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations As a Member of Parliament, back in the Nineties, I knew I didn’t think much of my constituents.
But in 1997, when the general election came along, it was a bit of a shock to find the feeling was entirely mutual. I lost my seat. I lost my job. At last, I think I have found it. For more than 50 years, I have been messing about in quotes. At school I discovered the detective stories of Dorothy L. In Have His Carcase (1932), Sayers has Lord Peter confess: ‘I always have a quotation for everything — it saves original thinking.’
I have been collecting quotations actively since the age of 11. T. 18 Surprising And Odd Things You Never Knew About The English Language. Red Sky at Night: The Science of Sunsets. On a recent autumn night here in Washington, D.C., the sun seemed to personify a Dylan Thomas poem: Do not go gentle into that good night ... Rage, rage against the dying of the light. The scarlet skies inspired many viewers to grab their cameras, and prompted a question: Why are some sunsets so spectacular, and others a mere muddle? We asked Stephen Corfidi, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) meteorologist who's written about the science of colorful sunsets, to help us see the light.
In simple terms, what makes a good sunset happen? I guess it depends on how you define "good," but I'm going to assume you mean a strikingly colorful one, where the colors are spectrally pure—say, vivid orange or red—as opposed to a more muted palette. Keep in mind that what we see with our human eyes is just a tiny part of the electromagnetic radiation that's given off by the sun. So really, there's a good sunset every night; we just can't always see it from the ground. Absolutely. Why do we have eyebrows. Eyebrows are a very significant aspect of our appearance. They are one of the most distinctive features that make up our faces, and we pay a lot of attention to them. We think of some types of eyebrows as attractive and some as unattractive, and many people spend as much time preening their eyebrows as they do applying makeup to their eyelashes or lips.
Eyebrows are also one of our most expressive facial features. One of the clearest ways to tell somebody what you're thinking is to simply move your eyebrows up or down -- we all know what different eyebrow positions mean. So, eyebrows obviously serve a lot of functions in our culture today -- beauty, nonverbal communication, distinctive appearance. Scientists aren't entirely sure why we kept this hair, but they have a pretty good guess. 27 Incredible Views You'd Only See If You Were A Bird. 24 Hilarious Puns That Only English Nerds Will Understand. What Day 1 On The International Space Station Was Like For The Astronauts. Astronaut Jerry Ross during one of three December 1998 spacewalks to get the space station ready for human habitation. Reflected in his helmet is NASA astronaut James Newman.
Behind is one of the solar arrays for the Russian Zarya module. Credit: NASA There wasn’t a lot of elbow room when six people from the Endeavour shuttle floated into the baby International Space Station on Dec. 10, 1998, but the cramped quarters resonated with possibility in STS-88 commander Bob Cabana’s mind. “It’s hard to believe 15 years ago we put those first modules together, and we have this facility today that’s the size of a football field,” said Cabana in an interview today (Nov. 20) with Universe Today. Cabana, who is now the director of the Kennedy Space Center, oversaw a complex mission that included joining the Russian Zarya and U.S. “That was a very special day, when we went into Unity and Zarya for the first time. A space station is born. 55 Years of NASA. 55 Years of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Credit: NASA. Today is NASA’s 55th birthday. Unfortunately, the celebration is muted due to the government shutdown, forcing much of NASA to shut down as well for the time being (see our overview of what’s still running at NASA and what’s not).
Before having to close the door (temporarily) today, NASA put together this nice graphic of the highlights of their accomplishments of the past 55 years, as well as what the hopes and plans are for the future. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration began operating on October 1, 1958, managing the US’s burgeoning space exploration program. Now, NASA is in the midst of expanding commercial access to the International Space Station with the rendezvous of Orbital Science’s Cygnus capsule this week. Our advice to you? Sopwith Camel. Design and development[edit] Operational history[edit] Western front[edit] Replica of Camel F.I flown by Lt. George A. The type entered squadron service in June 1917 with No. 4 Squadron of the Royal Naval Air Service, near Dunkirk. The Camel proved to have a good margin of superiority over the Albatros D.III and D.V and offered heavier armament and better performance than the Pup and Triplane. Agility in combat made the Camel one of the best-remembered Allied aircraft of the First World War.
Major William Barker's Sopwith Camel (serial no. Home defence and night fighting[edit] An important role for the Camel was home defence. Ground attack[edit] By mid-1918, the Camel was becoming limited, especially as a day fighter, by its slow speed and comparatively poor performance at altitudes over 12,000 ft (3,650 m). In summer 1918, a 2F.1 Camel (N6814) was used in trials as a parasite fighter under Airship R23 Variants[edit] Camels were powered by several rotary engines. Engine variants[edit] Australia. Inside the Space Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, here delivering the space shuttle Discovery to the Smithsonian, is due to make its final flight this week.
Photo: Jon Brack This week, when the space shuttle Endeavour flies from Kennedy Space Center to Los Angeles and its new home at the California Science Center, it also means the retirement of the Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) that has been responsible for transporting all the space shuttles for over 35 years. Edwards Air Force Base in California has had both the responsibility and honor of being the home of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft since the earliest days of the shuttle program. The team in charge of flying and servicing the two 747s is preparing to say their own goodbyes as the final ferry flights brings a shuttle back to the West Coast. Driving through the entrance of Edwards is like entering another world.
The desert is stark, the land flat, and the sun intense. 5 Big Changes in Space Travel Since Yuri Gagarin’s First Flight. A little over 50 years ago, no one on Earth knew what would happen when a human being was launched into space. That all changed on this day in 1961, when Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet military pilot and cosmonaut, hurtled into orbit aboard Vostok 1.
He circled the Earth once, reporting that he was feeling "excellent" and could see "rivers and folds in the terrain" and different kinds of clouds. "Beautiful" was his simple description of the view. Weightlessness, he said, felt "pleasant. " In the decades since Gagarin became the first person in space, what began as a politically fraught competition has yielded men on the moon, space walks, and visions of putting people on Mars. Politics Gagarin's flight represented a triumph for the Soviet Union during the heat of the Cold War, from which both the U.S. and Russian space programs were born. Nowadays the U.S. and Russia collaborate regularly, with cross-training and joint flights to the International Space Station (ISS). Escaping Earth Space Medicine. 20 Beautiful Private and Personal Libraries.
15 Most Charismatic Frontmen Of All Time » Page 15 of 15. There’s a simple reason why Freddie features at the top of this list: because he is unreservedly the most charismatic frontman of all time. No one has been able to entertain and allure massive crowds quite like the Queen frontman. Freddie had a presence like no other, and when he entered a room he had the control of everyone’s gaze. He had an unprecedented 4 octave range to which he danced around and which was often overdubbed in the studio so that the ‘vocal wall’ we hear in tracks like Killer Queen and Bohemian Rhapsody became an incredible Mercury choir.
And Freddie on stage was an animated, vivacious character who had the ability to shout blasts of “ehhhh oh” into a packed stadium and have it sung directly back with equal enthusiasm. The flamboyant Zanzibar-born frontman went through an array of looks – from the long-haired, glam rock ballet-inspired costumes to the slick haired, half microphone-stand and vest clad star who stole the show at Live Aid. 10 Phenomenal Guitarists That Deserve Your Attention In 2013 » Page 11 of 11. David Remnick: A Scandal at the Bolshoi Ballet. Gilded New York - book lifts the lid on Vanderbilt mansion in the late 19th-century. Listening to the First Billboard Top 100. The Mystery of Moon Dust. Do Our Bones Influence Our Minds? Super high tech replacement for the legendary SR71 Blackbird.
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