by Rupe | Sep 11, 2015 | Inspiration
The arrangement of the spiral arms in the galaxy Messier 63, seen here in an image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, recall the pattern at the center of a sunflower.
Discovered by Pierre Mechain in 1779, the galaxy later made it as the 63rd entry into fellow French astronomer Charles Messier’s famous catalogue, published in 1781. The two astronomers spotted the Sunflower Galaxy’s glow in the small, northern constellation Canes Venatici (the Hunting Dogs). We now know this galaxy is about 27 million light-years away and belongs to the M51 Group — a group of galaxies, named after its brightest member, Messier 51, another spiral-shaped galaxy dubbed the Whirlpool Galaxy.
Source: Hubble Sees a Galactic Sunflower
My Comments: Just simply amazing…
by Rupe | Sep 6, 2015 | what the...?
The shortest walk through African-American history shows that the white American response to any kind of Black Power flexing has always been the same, regardless of century or tone.
What has made the 21st century so interesting is that, perhaps for the first time in American history, the right people are being studied. Examining “race in America,” now in vogue, used to be called grappling with “The Negro Problem.” Black leadership and luminaries were ignored when they repeatedly said during the last century’s white supremacist flare-ups: it’s white Americans that are beyond due for the collective, public microscope.
Source: History Repeats Itself With Backlash Against Black Empowerment
My Comments: Awesomely put Mr. Burroughs. It is so so very refreshing to see the like of you and others like Ta-Nehisi are bearing witness in eloquent words to the world for us. Thank you sir.
by Rupe | Sep 5, 2015 | Mad Musings
Give us your age and gender, and we’ll tell you when you’ll die, using math!
The last Friday of the summer season is now upon us. As the days shorten and the leaves change and the year staggers toward its frigid terminus in the dead of winter, we at Wonkblog have been thinking about the inevitable conclusions of our own lives, and wondering how much of our potential we’ve squandered already.
So naturally, we made a fun little calculator to find out.
Source: Statistically speaking, when are you going to die? Come find out!
My Comments: Very interesting…
by Rupe | Sep 4, 2015 | Inspiration
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows Messier 96, a spiral galaxy just over 35 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo (The Lion). It is the nearest group containing both bright spirals and a bright elliptical galaxy (Messier 105).
Source: Hubble Peers into a Galactic Maelstrom
My Comments: The wondrous beauty of the universe…Amazing!
by Rupe | Aug 28, 2015 | Mad Musings
Doing so undermines the cause of racial equality in general and the pursuit of equitable treatment in the criminal justice system in particular.
After shutting down a Bernie Sanders speech at a Seattle rally for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, Black Lives Matter activist Marissa Johnson declared to MSNBC’s Tamron Hall that she was motivated by a desire to hold liberal candidates accountable.
Source: Liberals Are Wrong to Separate Race from Class
My Comments: Very good article; well worth a read.
