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NASA predicts our galaxy will collide with nearby galaxy
In 6 billion years, our galaxy, the Milky Way, will collide with the nearby Andromeda galaxy, according to the 1st reliable determination of Andromeda’s sideways motion, made using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
Read more on the astronomers’ prediction on Talking Points Memo and in NASA’s press release.
This photo illustration depicts a view of the night sky just before the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. (Illustration: NASA, ESA, Z. Levay and R. van der Marel (STScI), and A. Mellinger)
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This Graph Is Disastrous for Print and Great for Facebook—or the Opposite!
If you work anywhere near media, you’ll want to take a long look at this graph. It tells you where Americans direct our attention (in BLUE) and where advertisers pay money to capture our attention (in RED).
- Takeaway #1: We still love TV.
- Takeaway #2: Advertisers still love print.
- Takeaway #3: Audiences move faster than advertisers.
According to this chart — adapted from a Mary Meeker slideshow excerpted by Bill Gross — we spend more time engaging with mobile devices than reading print. But print publications still get 25-times more ad money than mobile. Either the eyeballs are moving faster than the advertisers, who will eventually stop paying for print … or the ad teams don’t think a minute spent around mobile ads is worth a minute spend around print ads. Those aren’t mutually exclusive.
We can take this chart in a lot of directions. Could print see another mass exodus of money? Is mobile advertising about to explode?
Source: The Atlantic
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Blooper Reel of the Day: The muppets managed plenty of goofs while shooting last year’s feature film. Here are the highlights.
Also starring the ever-charming Amy Adams and Jason Segel.
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The Spring of 2012 Is the Hottest in U.S. History
In case, you know, you haven’t been outside in the past three month, it’s about to become official: unless a freak blizzard blankets the country by Thursday, the spring of 2012 will go down as the warmest for the U.S. in 117 years of record-keeping. The National Climatic Data Center won’t release a report on the temperatures in May until sometime in June, but based on their assessment of March and April, University of Maryland professor Steve Scolnik, who blogs at Climate Capital, says that our warm May will smash the 102-year-old record.
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The Spring of 2012 Is the Hottest in U.S. History
In case, you know, you haven’t been outside in the past three month, it’s about to become official: unless a freak blizzard blankets the country by Thursday, the spring of 2012 will go down as the warmest for the U.S. in 117 years of record-keeping. The National Climatic Data Center won’t release a report on the temperatures in May until sometime in June, but based on their assessment of March and April, University of Maryland professor Steve Scolnik, who blogs at Climate Capital, says that our warm May will smash the 102-year-old record.
Read more at The Atlantic Wire. [Image: Dino Grandoni]
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The frontispiece of William King Gregory’s two-volume Evolution Emerging, 1951
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There are only two countries that have child poverty rates over 20%: Romania and the United States.
Note: data reflects only the world’s “advanced industrial economies.”
Source: thinkprogress.org
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Memorial Day: Don’t forget to remember.
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Speaker device may lets humans communicate with dolphins
The device, designed to emit dolphin-like sounds and frequencies, will be used to play noises to dolphins and then scientists will study the responses.
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How to attract hummingbirds to your yard
Feeders will do the trick, but creating a habitat with native plants is more effective.
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"The amount of money an average woman loses to the pay gap could feed a family of four." →
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Plant the Plate infographic argues for increased fruit and vegetable production
America doesn’t grow enough fruits and vegetables to satisfy USDA recommendations for all citizens.
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