Another encounter makes you think

Judging a beggar by his ways of earning is not fair. I do not like nor approve of begging but thats given my experience, raising & mental abilities. Pride could prevent one who’d otherwise not mind begging for money, but if it doesn’t, these too could possibly be nice people who have mind numbing responsibilities on their shoulder & an unfortunate raising causing an impaired judgement, or some simpler & more valid reason.

Be nice, give constructive advice to those if your time allows, be even better & try suggesting or offering starter solutions.

You could restrain from giving money to a beggar but judging will be transparent to him, might hold him back from a possibility of approaching a better means to earning because he just got another crack to his confidance.

A beggar approaching you is a small encounter but could count much if you thought a way to bring out the positive experience in this :)

"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept"

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Annular Solar Eclipse in Japan

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NUTELLA!

“MIT researchers have developed a nanomaterial coating for ketchup bottles (and other hard to pour substances) that solves one of mankind’s most immense problems: How do you get the stuff out of the bottle??”

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Drawings of the elements of CMS detector, in the style of Leonardo da Vinci <click>

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A 68-second timelapse of the annular solar eclipse of 2012, composed of 700 telescope pictures taken by science teacher Cory Poole.

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List of people who have been called a "polymath" →

"if something is not a problem it does not get any thinking time. It is as simple as that. Many ways of doing things survive for years because they adequate. There is nothing wrong; there is not a problem. So why should we think about them? Why should we give such matters any attention at all? It is only when there is a motivated search for simplicity that we start to look at things which are not problems and start to ask: “is that realy the simplest way to do things?"

Simplicity } Edward De Bono

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Logarithmic Spirals

Image Credit: M101 - NASA, ESA, CFHT, NOAO; Typhoon Rammasun - MODIS, NASA Comparison: Lawrence Anderson-Huang (Ritter Astrophysical Obs., Univ. Toledo)

Uncomfortably close Typhoon Rammasun (right) and 25 million light-year distant galaxy M101 don’t seem to have much in common.

For starters, Rammasun was only a thousand kilometers or so across while M101 (aka the Pinwheel Galaxy) spans about 170,000 light-years, making them vastly dissimilar in scale, not to mention the different physical environments that control their formation and development.

But they do look amazingly alike: each with arms exhibiting the shape of a simple and beautiful mathematical curve known as a logarithmic spiral, a spiral whose separation grows in a geometric way with increasing distance from the center.

Also known as the equiangular spiral, growth spiral, and Bernoulli’s spiral or spira mirabilis, this curve’s rich properties have fascinated mathematicians since its discovery by 17th century philosopher Descartes.

Intriguingly, this abstract shape is much more abundant in nature than suggested by the striking visual comparison above. For example, logarithmic spirals can also describe the tracks of subatomic particles in a bubble chamber, the arrangement of sunflower seeds and, of course, cauliflower.

May 13th

limericksforlear:

I once met a curious bug

Who’d settled inside an old mug

He had fashioned a chair

Out of strands of old hair

And had even constructed a rug

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meme-meme:

Let me think…

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