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Rare pic of 70s Bollywood

Right now NASA's Chandra is collecting light in Carina. Nearby in the sky is the Caterpillar, a dark cloud of gas & dust in space known as a Bok Globule. Bok Globules can act like cocoons to star embryos within, protecting them during metamorphosis until they ignite! 🐛

Is there a crazier type of play in sports then the "Greatest" in Ultimate? This is the best one in league history.

'I am back': Sanders tops Warren with massive New York City rally

Ballzheimers

Reality is often confusing

I made an animation comparing two of my photographs in true color and false color of outer space [OC]

Ohio Bobcats Try Out a Different Brand of Onside Kick

TIL of Dr. Sharad Dicksheet; he founded The India Project in 1968. Until his death in 2011 he traveled to India each year to perform surgeries on children. To date, The India Project has performed more than 98,000 free corrective surgeries for children and infants who suffer from facial deformities.

TIL 71% of U.S. youth would not currently qualify for military service due to their heath, physical appearance, or educational background.

LPT: When using a PDF version of a textbook to read, make each chapter you read a separate PDF by pressing Print>Save as PDF and specifying the page range of the chapter. That way, each chapter will load faster and you won't have to scroll through the document to find the section you're on!

This is a picture I shot yesterday, it makes me think that there's not a chance we're alone in all of these solar systems.

The Cave Nebula in Hydrogen Alpha - 19 hours of exposure time over 3 nights

130,000 Frames photographed of the Hunters Moon from New Zealand

My 18 Hour exposure photo of the Helix Nebula from my backyard

California Can Expect Blackouts For A Decade, Says PG&E CEO

Chairman Lebron

LPT: Shredding cheese by hand is usually cheaper per ounce vs. bagged cheese and tastes better while not being coated in wax or full of fillers

There should be laws against collecting people’s data. We are not the commodity, and no company should be able to use machine learning on us to profile our behavior. Why the law takes so much time to play catch up one wonders

Apparently, Lucifer's followers have made there way to delhi.

The Quest to Get Photos of the USSR's First Space Shuttle

Virgin Galactic’s suit is not a space suit

LPT: Keep an emergency kit in your car

Zuckerberg has a bizarre take on history. More Facebook doesn't equal more democracy

Former White House ethics director on Trump giving his own hotel G7 contract: ‘We have reached the bottom’. 'There is no level of corruption greater than a President participating in the award of a contract to himself'

Yogi govt hasn’t issued any order to ban mobile phones in universities, colleges: Deputy CM

TIL: Lise Meitner, an Austrian-born physicist, discovered that atomic nuclei can be split in half. She and her nephew explained and named nuclear fission in 1939, but the recognition went to Otto Hahn for this discovery. He was granted a Nobel Prize in 1944 in Chemistry.

TIL Since female dairy cows are much more valuable than bulls we use machines to sort bull semen into male vs female semen. These machines work based on the fact that XX semen have more DNA than XY, and thus greater mass, and can be automatically discriminated when colored with florescence.

A Message We Can All Get Behind 😂

Trump Writes Unhinged ‘Legal’ Letter Demanding That CNN Pay Him Money

Allegations of bed bugs at Trump's Doral Resort swarm Twitter

college management made students to wear corrugated box to stop them from copying during exams.

LPT even if you LOVE your job, its not a bad idea to be casually looking at online job boards occasionally. You never know what you'll see.

LPT: if you’re an LGBT youth, be sure that you become financially independent before coming out to your family in case things don’t go well. Be self-sufficient and have a backup plan.

Hongkong Protests during NBA preseason game in Brooklyn

Phil Mickelson hits the flagstick on 353-yard par 4.

New Hubble data suggests galaxies without dark matter really exist. The deep observations "cannot be argued with," says the study's co-author, and they "point to an alternative channel for building galaxies — and they even raise the question whether we understand what a galaxy is."

Bing Bong Hong Kong

Eating potato is as effective as carbohydrate gels for boosting athletic performance, concludes study of cyclists.

Scientists developed efficient process for breaking down any plastic waste to a molecular level. Resulting gases can be transformed back into new plastics of same quality as original. The new process could transform today's plastic factories into recycling refineries, within existing infrastructure.

You should try his body

LPT: Used all of your free articles on a publisher's site and can't read an interesting article because of the subscription pop up (paywall)? Use the reader view in your browser to block the paywall popup and enjoy your article!

LPT: making your bed after waking up can put a really good end to a tough day.

LPT: Find a pair of socks you REALLY like and only buy the same pair so you always get a matching pair of socks from the basket after washing them.

TIL about Coffe naps. After a cup of coffee napping for 15-20 mins enhances the effects of coffee by increasing the availability of receptors for caffeine in your brain.

TIL the difference between stamina and endurance. Stamina is the amount of time one can perform an action at maximum capacity (ex: sprinting), endurance is the maximum amount of time one can perform an action (ex: a marathon)

TIL that comedian Bert Kreischer was such a hellraiser at Florida State University that Rolling Stone did a six page feature on him calling him ''the top partyer at the number one party school in the country" that was the inspiration for the movie, "National Lampoon's Van Wilder".

LPT When pulling out on blind corners - especially in the country - put your window down and listen for traffic. Often you can hear a car even if you can't see it.

LPT: Never say anything at work that you wouldn't want read out loud at a deposition.

Aerial video shows SpaceX building yet another Starship rocket in Florida