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Valentina Tereshkova orbited the Earth 48 times during her three day spaceflight in Vostok 6 in 1963. First woman in space!
tereshkova by philipjbond on flickr
Love this!
Swipe back at MTA fare hikes. Make Wall Street pay, not transit riders!
(Source: facebook.com)
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…smart cities, in which the word “smart” disguises an oppressive disaster-capitalism. It is smartness imposed from above, created and dropped onto cities from a scorched-space abstracted void. Cities without history, where we don’t live and never will: cities consecrated to the administrative needs of corporate elites.
But another city is possible…
-Jasmina Tesanovic
” —I feel these are prescient words of warning.
Overall, this piece on boingboing has a few great nuggets for me as I reorient my career and place amidst the web.
Eastward wind velocity is plotted at a variety of pressure levels. The animation goes with decreasing pressure, so increasing altitude. Things to notice:
- The jet stream behaving like an ocean wave breaking
- Disparities between the hemispheres
- There is a point directly above Chicago where the air stops trying to push people over
morning photoshop experiment - sabertooth tigers vs. wall street bull.
Must see graphic shows that arctic sea ice volume really is in a death spiral.
Just look at all this wind energy!
from the amazing http://hint.fm/wind/
Just look at all this solar energy potential!
maps via National Renewable Energy Labratory
Continuing to map the future I want… just look at the solar potential of the USA!
image via Slate