The CosmoBC.com Tumblelog

Books

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:33:21 -0500

“Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.”
Paul Valery
French critic & poet (1871 – 1945)

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Ideas

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:03:47 -0500

“The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.”
P. B. Medawar
British (Brazilian-born) anatomist (1915 – )

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New Footer & Toolbar

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:00:51 -0500

As you may have noticed, we have recently released our new footer design, followed by a new toolbar on our blogs.
The footer allows for better navigation between all our blogs, sections and features. The toolbar enables users to interact even more with our blogs. They can share, subscribe to RSS, become fan, tweet, etc. right […] http://bit.ly/9sgg8C

Truth

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:33:23 -0500

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes)
British mystery author & physician (1859 – 1930)

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The long eared white fox

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:48:46 -0500

Beware! He hears everything!

Image credits: Cute Funny Animals: 50 Precious Photos

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Funny but True!

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:03:56 -0500

“The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.”
H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 – 1956)

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World’s Smallest Inhabited Island

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:00:48 -0500

This 105-old mansion is built on a small rocky island off the shore of Rhode Island. It’s called the Clingstone Mansion.
It is a pretty big, 23-room residence, in the middle of nowhere, which puts it far away from any noisy neighbor.

Images source: Clingstone Mansion in Rhode Island

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Kindness

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:02:59 -0500

“Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.”
Annie Lennox

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Sleepy Cat

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:49:24 -0500

What an adorable cat!

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To Boldly Go Where No Dog Has Gone Before!

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:33:35 -0500

This image has been all over the internet, so it’s hard to give credit to the person who actually did this, but whoever you are, Live Long And Prosper!

To Boldly Go Where No Dog Has Gone Before!

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Work

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:33:07 -0500

“Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself.”
A. H. Weiler (1909 – 2002)

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Astronomy Picture of the Week – The Rosette Nebula

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:14:52 -0500

The Rosette Nebula is a quite large nebula and is located 3,000 light-years away.
This picture was taken in the light emitted by three elements of the ionized gas from the nebula. The red color comes from hydrogen, green from oxygen and blue from sulfur.

Image Credits: NASA

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Science

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:03:15 -0500

“Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.”
Peter Borden

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-07

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:14:17 -0500

Dark Asteroids Discovered, Possible Threat to Earth: An infrared space telescope, called the Wide-Field Infrared S… http://bit.ly/9phoqT #
RT @dailygalaxy Earth’s Magentic Shield 3.5 Billion Years Old Shielded Early Life http://bit.ly/925h6D #
RT @dailygalaxy Scary Zone: NASA Extraterrestrial Impact VIDEO http://su.pr/2nSuCr #
RT @nasablog The USSR’s Soyuz was the first Soviet spacecraft to dock with an American spacecraft. […] http://bit.ly/bik3tk

Two New Blogs: TechBlog and CuteAnimals

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:00:38 -0500

We recently released two new blogs: TechBlog and CuteAnimals.
CosmoBC.com TechBlog is the blog for everything technology: computers, gadgets, internet, etc. while CosmoBC.com CuteAnimals is the blog for extremely cute animals and pets.

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Dark Asteroids Discovered, Possible Threat to Earth

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:18:19 -0500

An infrared space telescope, called the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has discovered several dark asteroids close to Earth that could possibly be a threat to our planet. Those asteroids are very dark and reflect less than 10% of the sunlight they receive, which makes them extremely hard to spot with traditional telescopes. However they […] http://bit.ly/aLuRSt

Some Funny Google Fails

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:01:59 -0500

Google Auto Suggest is, as we can see from its name, an automated suggestion system. It is based on popular search queries. Since there’s a lot of weird people out there, Google will sometimes make some weird suggestions, as shown below.
Also, if you spend some time on Google Earth or Google Maps, you might find […] http://bit.ly/be6NHI

Technology

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:32:52 -0500

“Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.”
Alan Turing
English logician & mathematician (1912 – 1954)

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Walking Through The Field…

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:50:21 -0500

This little bunny is just amazingly cute!

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Twitter hits 10 billionth tweet!

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:18:31 -0500

The 10 billionth tweet was sent on March 4 at 1am GMT, according to the GigaTweet site which counts tweets live.

The daily number of tweets grows at a staggering exponential rate. In 2007 there were only about 5,000 tweets per day. By 2008 that number grew to 300,000 and by 2009 it grew to 2.5 […] http://bit.ly/aaHP6W