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2013-05-22 03:23:35 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

True North, strong and getting stupid.
Via: +John Dupuis, +CBC Radio One Quirks and Quarks

2013-05-21 11:08:07 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

How much wood could a Wood Duck duck? Unknown But this young female would be very stylish while doing it with her dramatic eyes and relatively colorful plumage for a female Duck.
This one was unaccompanied and 
Slumming with the Mallards

#Wildlfe   #urbanwildlife  

2013-05-21 01:10:38 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-05-20 18:22:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Uhoh...

2013-05-20 17:59:05 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Off the grid, but still generating CO2. But still efficiency is a good thing, compared to the alternative.

2013-05-20 17:56:04 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

And they want to buy the Tribune company. What could possibly go wrong?
" Not even a week after Buzzfeed’s relationship with the Koch Brothers is exposed do we learn that a near civil war erupted in public television over documentaries that focused on Charles and David Koch. In an expose written by Jane Mayer of the New Yorker it is revealed that two public television affiliated documentaries prominently featuring the Koch family came under pressure to be censored and edited due to fear that Charles and David Koch, major donors to public media, would withdraw support."

2013-05-20 04:35:21 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Koch Bros. Coke. mountains of it, in Detroit, coming soon to Port Arthur, Tx if the Keystone pipeline goes through. Dirty stuff. But don't worry Americans won't burn it, it pollutes the air with heavy metals and more CO2 than regular coal, the Mexicans and Chinese will do it for them. The global economy at your service. 

2013-05-19 17:11:24 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Looking forward to a new Coen  Bros. Flick.

2013-05-19 16:24:41 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 4 +1s)

One cannot see this too often.

2013-05-19 02:56:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

" The best possible spin on this is that the government was concerned that we would miss the snow now that it’s gone, and was giving Canadians something else to shovel all summer long. "

A little background. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_policy_of_the_Harper_government#Senate_reform

2013-05-19 02:36:14 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Only in Canader eh?

Fresh from the Canadian Mint: A $90,000 'Duffy buck'
 Deep Rogue Ram·  
Published on May 18, 2013
If you liked the design for the $20 and $50 bill, you'll love the look and feel of the all-new $90,000 bill. Featuring financial wunderkind Mike Duffy, important security safeguards and almost no ethics whatsoever.

2013-05-19 02:15:44 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

2013-05-18 16:18:43 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)

2013-05-18 16:15:00 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Via; +George Takei 

2013-05-18 14:42:05 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Good #squirrelsaturday  morning.
+Squirrel Saturday with +Skippy Sheeskin & +Beth Blackwell 
I share again this little chipmunk from the Riverwood Conservancy with his cheek pouches full of sunflower seeds.

2013-05-18 03:24:23 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 1 +1s)

Fantastic talk with Lawrence Krauss and Richard Dawkins.

2013-05-18 02:59:47 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Of interest to WWW historians, The first World Wide Web server underwent some maintenance and they took photos.

" In August 2009 a team from the Association aBCM in Lausanne came to CERN to give the world's first web server a health check under the watchful eye of web pioneer Robert Cailliau. They took an image of the hard drive at this time, copies of which were given to Robert Cailliau and Tim Berners-Lee."

The rest of the photos are here;
http://cds.cern.ch/record/1547556

And a little background here;
http://info.cern.ch/

© Copyright CERN 2013

2013-05-17 22:41:47 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Via Dr. Adriana Caselotti
( not the one who sang for Snow White)

"  But also, an additional UPS system will be added to each zone. This third UPS system will act as a backup for the two UPS systems on the front line."

2013-05-17 01:05:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

For those folks like +Trey Ratcliff who are big fans of the new compact mirrorless cameras like the NEX-7 this looks interesting 
Carl Zeiss Camera Lenses Touit 2.8/12

http://lenses.zeiss.com/camera-lenses/en_de/camera_lenses/touit/touit2812.html
and
http://sonyalphanex.blogspot.ca/

Not likely to be for those on a budget though.

2013-05-16 15:14:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Join our #HangoutWithCERN featuring TED-Ed animators, starting in a few minutes here:
Hangout with CERN and TED-Ed - Dimensions Multiplied

For more details see: http://plus.google.com/events/c6siviut81len830gkosiv5uo4c

Got a question? Post it in the YouTube comments of Hangout with CERN and TED-Ed - Dimensions Multiplied

2013-05-16 14:20:37 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

+Chris Hadfield  Press conf already started.

2013-05-16 12:11:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

*Welcome to #AutoEnhance  & #AutoAwesome *

Earlier today at Google I/O, +Vic Gundotra announced #AutoEnhance  and #AutoAwesome  - two new features to help make sharing your photos more fun and more creative. To help you become more familiar with these tools, here’s a brief Q&A along with some sample images to enjoy. 

Can you give me some more details on how Google+ will enhance my  photos?
Sure! Auto Enhance analyzes your photos as you upload them, then optimizes brightness, contrast, details, noise, focus, and many other factors in order to help them really shine. Just click on the Enhanced hover button on newly uploaded photos to see the results. You can also manually turn on Auto Enhance on older images by clicking on ‘More’ and select ‘Auto Enhance’.

Will the Auto Enhanced version overwrite my original photos?
No.We will never o... more »

2013-05-16 11:16:28 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Had to try to U/L a photo to the new G+. 
I still don't see where they hid the manual enhance controls.
Ah it's called Edit, never mind. But they still haven't fixed the highlights and shadows sliders to start in the middle to let you either increase or decrease those parameters as it is done in Lightroom, which I like.
Also the photo name seems to be gone from photo details.

A Brace of Ducks.

Do you come here often?

2013-05-15 23:45:42 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Well, this is New Goggle plus is going to take some getting used to.
Change is hard.

2013-05-19 03:04:16 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

#space  
" So in a weak moment I gave in and will be appearing Thursday morning as a witness before the Senate Science and Space Subcommittee. What have I gotten myself into?"

http://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Hearings&ContentRecord_id=93f78807-737f-4354-9141-e5d728c0ecfe&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=a06730c4-d875-4fde-97db-9e2be611840e

Wayne starts at about the 55:28 mark.

2013-05-14 18:24:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Be still my beating heart.
This is sort of like "everyone complains about the weather but no one does anything about it". 
If it actually results in convictions in less than a decade I'll be surprised / delighted. One things Oil companies have plenty of it's lawyers and money.

2013-05-14 00:32:03 (9 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Are we doing it wrong?

2013-05-13 16:58:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

" The undocking of the Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft set for 7:08 p.m. EDT Monday will officially mark the end of Expedition 35 and the start of Expedition 36. Hadfield, Marshburn and Flight Engineer Roman Romanenko are scheduled for a 10:31 p.m. landing in southern Kazakhstan, wrapping up 146 days in space for the trio. "

2013-05-13 11:02:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

+Evan Hadfield will be on Metro Morning CBC( Toronto) radio in a few minutes. (7:20 AM)

2013-05-13 00:40:21 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

#sciencesunday   #scienceeveryday  

" TheScienceFoundation·
   
Uploaded on Jan 14, 2011

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out was filmed in 1981 and will delight and inspire anyone who would like to share something of the joys of scientific discovery. Feynman is a master storyteller, and his tales -- about childhood, Los Alamos, or how he won a Nobel Prize -- are a vivid and entertaining insight into the mind of a great scientist at work and play.

In this candid interview Feynman touches on a wide array of topics from the beauty of nature to particle physics. He explains things that are hard to grasp in layman's terms much like Carl Sagan did in the cosmos series. His explanation of the scientific method covers what we know, why we know it and most importantly, what we don't know and the pleasure of figuring it out.

Professor SirHarr... more »

2013-05-12 22:35:25 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Got Rhythm?

2013-05-12 15:06:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

+Chris Hadfield +Evan Hadfield 

#ThankYouCommanderHadfield  

2013-05-12 04:04:13 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-10 22:17:51 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Franti Friday is LIVE!! Y'all were asking how to play "I'm Alive" on Twitter, so here it is. Enjoy! 

2013-05-07 14:25:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-07 14:21:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

" The talk was presented at the 2013 ROOT Users' Meeting and followed a talk, earlier in the day, on "Mathematica with ROOT"."

2013-05-07 11:02:42 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Via +Tom Whyntie 

" Recently, the physicists at CERN and the animators at TED-Ed teamed up to combine what they do best (complex particle physics) with what we do best (animations that illuminate tough concepts). The results were broadcast on Friday at TEDxCERN, between incredible talks ranging from women in science to consciousness to grid computing, attendees watched animations on everything from the origins of the universe to the mystery of anti-matter."

2013-05-07 02:29:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Well golly gosh gee wilikers I had just a super day off today.
Started off going to Service Ontario and getting my drivers licence and medical card renewed in less than 20 minutes.  
Then went over to the Riverwood Conservancy to shoot a few photos. Saw some purdy flaurs and a Chipmunk and a cool old wagon. The highlight was walking up the stairs to go on the Burnhamthorpe bridge I saw this huge Bird of Prey sitting in a tree. I slowly approached and it didn't seem to care and appeared to be in a mood to model so I took a bunch of shots of it. Red Tailed Hawk I think, any Ornithologists care to correct me feel free.
 Then I went to see Iron Man 3, pretty awesome.
Then I shot some of the Mississauga skyline around Square One.
 Then went for my walk around the 'hood, Great day for it. Shot some Squirrels and Ducks.
Then, for no particular reason I took a picture of thecr... more »

2013-05-06 02:12:40 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

Light on the Jetty

2013-05-06 01:49:48 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

#sciencesunday   #scienceeveryday   #scienceisawesome  

2013-05-05 16:43:06 (52 comments, 195 reshares, 526 +1s)

Feliz Cinco de Mayo
The Revenge of the Fifth
Where Napoleon gets his butt kicked by Mexican Jedi.

Photo: http://lovefromfanlandia.com/2012/05/05/revenge-of-the-fifth/

2013-05-05 00:35:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

New research proves that America's first colonists were cannibals. Americans could so easily have ended up with the constitutional right to eat people. Crumb my cold, dead hands...My column this week. Love T xo

2013-05-05 00:03:22 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

The winger's War on Science is nothing new. I ran across this while browsing the CERN CDS http://cds.cern.ch/record/1544973?ln=en


" From the moment of Einstein's arrival in the U.S. in l933 until his death in l955, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, with help from several other federal agencies, busied itself collecting "derogatory information" in an effort to undermine Einstein's influence and destroy his prestige. For the first time Fred Jerome tells the story of that anti-Einstein campaign, as well as the story behind it--why and how the campaign originated, and thereby provides the first detailed picture of Einstein's little known political activism. Unlike the popular image of Einstein as an absent-minded, head-in-the-clouds genius, the man was in fact intensely politically active and felt it was his duty to use his world-wide fame shrewdly in the cause ofs... more »

2013-05-04 17:40:45 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

You've seen all the crazy driving stuff, insurance scamers and scary meteoroids recorded on Russian dash cams, now for the positive side.

Via:@RealRonHoward

Positive compilation of Russian dash cams(Video by ArkadiYM93)
 simplyguys· 
Published on May 3, 2013
Tired of all the brutal dash cam videos? 
Here are positive for a change.
Stay safe !!!!
("Arrival of the Birds / Exodus (From "The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos")", composition musicale administré par : 0:15 
One or more music publishing rights collecting societies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGEiA...
Category
Education

2013-05-04 03:09:48 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

On a lighter note.

2013-05-04 02:51:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_times  actually not a Chinese curse apparently. 

2013-05-03 12:04:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

It's on people.

+TEDx +CERN 

http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/5875

2013-05-02 23:22:01 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk
F9R (pronounced F-niner) shows a little leg. Design is a nested, telescoping piston w A frame. 
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/330053450261987328

Giacomo Balli ‏@BigBalli 
@elonmusk is it hydraulic?

 Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk 
@BigBalli High pressure helium. Needs to be ultra light. All 4 legs together (~60 ft span) weigh less than Model S.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/330054002148515841

2013-05-02 14:19:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

If you're in Ottawa and in the neighborhood of the Canadian Air and Space Museum they're about to unveil the Exhibit for Canada's National Space Icon - Canadarm

Otherwise watch on +Canadian Space Agency U-Stream below.
http://aviation.technomuses.ca/

2013-05-02 16:33:42 (1 comments, 14 reshares, 8 +1s)

Laboring in the caverns of science.

A worker at +CERN  in the LHC tunnel performing one of the many procedures that are part of a splice consolidation.

Some detail on the magnitude of the operation here: https://mediastream.cern.ch/MediaArchive/Photo/Public/2013/1302027/1302027_01/1302027_01-A4-at-144-dpi.jpg

and more photo's in this series here: http://cds.cern.ch/record/1544909#

Photo by : Anna Pantelia  All rights reserved by the photographer and CERN.