A Breathing Earth - CometBird Here's a view looking at one year of seasonal transformations on Earth. Made possible by the tremendous folks of the NASA Visible Earth team, I downloaded the twelve cloud-free satellite imagery mosaics of Earth ("Blue Marble Next Generation") at each month of the year. I wrapped them into some fun projections then stitched them together into a couple animated gifs... Don't click this small version or this tiny version. Click here to see the irrationally large version (8.9 MB). Don't waste your time with this boring small version or this lame tiny version. I of course had some expectation of what I would see as a result of animating these frames. Why? Of course there are the global characteristics of climate and the nature of land to heat and cool more rapidly than water. But, overall, to me it looks like breathing.
Angel Haze Finally Does Justice To Macklemore's "Same Love" main Why not develop music in ways unknown? This only makes sense. I cannot understand the difference between my notes on paper and other notes on paper. If beauty is present, it is present. Emily Howell is a computer program created by David Cope during the 1990s. Dr Cope My name is Jenna Mattox, and I am a freshman at Nazareth College of Rochester. From Darkness, Light (Opus 1): Two Pianos 20:57. Intuit® | Website Building Software & Website Design Pat Buchanan Demands GOP Double Down On Govt Shutdown And Obamacare GOP Pundit Pat Buchanan urged Republicans to burn America to the ground rather than give up their hostage-taking tactics to defund the Affordable Care Act. Photo of Pat Buchanan from Wikipedia. For two weeks, Republicans have kept the government shut down in an effort to force Democrats to give in to their demand that Obamacare be defunded. Pat Buchanan says Republicans should destroy America. In a column for World Net Daily published on Monday, conservative Pat Buchanan urged Republicans to burn America to the ground rather than give up their hostage-taking tactics to defund the Affordable Care Act. “Republicans should refuse to raise the white flag and insist on an honorable avenue of retreat,” Buchanan wrote. Republicans are a dangerous threat to America. This is how dangerous Republicans have become. Republicans are hell bent on destroying America and they have Pat Buchanan’s blessing.
Emily Howell Emily Howell is a computer program created by UC Santa Cruz professor of music David Cope during the 1990s. Emily Howell consists of an interactive interface that allows both musical and language communication. By encouraging and discouraging the program, Cope attempts to “teach” it to compose music more to his liking. The program uses only the output of a previous composing program called Experiments in Musical Intelligence (EMI)[1] as a source database for its musical choices. Emily Howell’s first album was released in February 2010 by Centaur Records (CRC 3023). References[edit] Jump up ^ David Cope (1987), "Experiments in Music Intelligence."
Western-backed resolution on Syria doomed? Published time: January 27, 2012 11:25 Edited time: January 28, 2012 08:39 The UN Security Council is due to consider a new resolution on Syria, which demands that the country’s authorities step down. Russia however has stated that the draft offered by the West and the Arab League has no chance of being passed as it is. "The UN Security Council will meet in closed consultations this Friday 3:00 pm in New York to discuss steps to take on the situation in Syria," France's UN mission Twitter page informed. The draft resolution was reportedly proposed by France and supported by the United States, the UK, Portugal, Germany and the Arab countries. According to the Itar-Tass news agency, the new draft will demand that the Syrian regime stop all violence in Syria, withdraw armed forces from inhabited areas and allow peaceful rallies. ‘Fresh draft resolution unacceptable for Russia’ – top official “There are not even such elementary things as a reference to adherence to the UN Charter,” he said.
Oreos May Be As Addictive As Cocaine If you have ever found yourself unable to resist just one more Oreo, you’re not alone. That “stuf” is like crack, neurologically speaking. A new study from Connecticut College shows that Oreos are as addictive as cocaine, at least for lab rats. According to the new study, eating the iconic black and white cookies activated more neurons in the rat brain’s “pleasure center” than drugs such as cocaine. “I haven’t touched an Oreo since doing this experiment,” neuroscience assistant professor Joseph Schroeder said in a school press release. (MORE: 100 Years of Oreos: 9 Things You Didn’t Know About the Iconic Cookie) The research looked at the rats’ behaviors and the effects the cookies had on their brains. The rats in the study liked the cookies about as much as they liked the drugs, congregating near the cookie side of the maze as much as they would on the drug side. Much like humans, rats also prefer the delicious creamy center to the cookie. Not addictive?