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Robtel Pailey’s children book “Gbagba” (Corruption) was adapted into this amazing video by HipCo artist Takun J.

A screenshot of the interactive Submarine Cable Map, last updated on March 29, 2015, showing active and planned submarine cable systems and their landing stations, according to the Global Bandwidth Research Service. Via NPR

Beautiful. An automated xylophone is created in a secluded forest.
Via Boing Boing

From Friday, Feb 20: Photographs show Venus and Mars “dancing” alongside each other for about an hour, the closest they have been together in seven years. Mars is the smallest of the two dots above the building, with Venus being the slightly larger of the two.

Via Daily Mail UK

Visualizing the world’s airline traffic via Flight Stream .

(H/T The Next Web)

mymodernmet:

In this stunning series by Brad Wilson, the photographer captures up-close portraits of different owl species.

I was actually thinking about leaving science and medicine. The reason for that was as I was going around speaking to faculty members…as I was looking for jobs…the questions I was getting were about how my career was going to help me shape getting the next paper, getting the next grant, how are you going to do arguing for space and promotions…These [topics] had nothing to do with the reasons that I went into medicine or science. It was in the back row of [my former patient Hayden’s] memorial service that I sat there and decided I was not going to consider grants, publications, promotions or space. Instead I was going to design every experiment in my career toward making sure that other families didn’t have to go through what Hayden’s went through.

— Jim Olson, pediatric oncologist at PopTech 2013. More PopTech talks to watch on World Cancer Day: http://goo.gl/IcDalF

bycouleurs:

Confetti Squares

Photographer Stephen Orlando attaches LED light sticks attached to kayak paddles, people, racquets and more to create these stunning images. Via Colossal

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