October 2011
124 posts
Watchtheatlanticvideo:
NASA’s Other 1969 Mission—to the Bottom of the Ocean
While Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were walking on the moon, a team of NASA aquanauts spent 30 days in a submarine, drifting along the Gulf Stream for 1,444 miles. This short documentary, Meanwhile, at the Bottom of the Ocean… celebrates the Ben Franklin mission’s legacy of oceanic research.
“Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.”
– Albert Einstein (via mikehazard)
Understanding the Occupy Wall Street movement →
latimes:
An extremely clear primer on the Occupy protests:
Q: Are the movement’s claims true?
A: There is no secret in the United States that the rich are indeed very rich and becoming even more so at the expense of the rest of society.
Michael Muskal does such a great job with this.
Q: What does it mean to call the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators a social movement?
A: Social...
