#OnThisDay in 1929, William Faulkner weds Estelle Oldham at College Hill Presbyterian Church, Mississippi. pic.twitter.com/WduQCxvpTl
— ✍ Bibliophilia (@Libroantiguo) June 20, 2015
#OnThisDay in 1929, William Faulkner weds Estelle Oldham at College Hill Presbyterian Church, Mississippi. pic.twitter.com/WduQCxvpTl
— ✍ Bibliophilia (@Libroantiguo) June 20, 2015
Teens Create a Self-Cleaning Door Handle to Eliminate Germs — http://t.co/hAQi0UB2v8 pic.twitter.com/Jg6YK2Md9p
— Mental Floss (@mental_floss) June 18, 2015
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” -Thomas Edison #inspiration
— Saebo, Inc. (@Saeboinc) June 17, 2015
Too good to be true? New study links eating #chocolate to lower rates of heart disease. http://t.co/qBXG5gdTkf pic.twitter.com/mdp3B3Wj2M
— Harvard Health (@HarvardHealth) June 17, 2015
This got us thinking. Science, too, builds then rebuilds as new evidence is accumulated. Theories are constructed, then subsumed, or even abandoned. Our animation shows the progression of our understanding of the skies, from Ptolemy to Einstein, shutting us from heaven with a dome ever more vast.
Via Berkeley Lab CS and Nautilus
It's interesting that I read this just after I read this thought of Kevin Kelley via Explore
Any complex invention is a network of dependent and self-sustaining different technologies… That’s also true of ideas – ideas are not standalone ideas; ideas are a network of other ideas that support them and are required to make them happen… A new idea is just the last little bit that’s added to a network that already exists.