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Nick
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Atheist. Scientific Skeptic. Critical thinker. Garigal land.
Maria PopovaRock'n'roll godmother Sister Rosetta Tharp was born on this day in 1915. Treat your soul to this priceless footage of her performing live at a Manchester train station with her white felt coat and electric guitar https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/03/20/sister-rosetta-tharpe/
@darkcorners3 took me years before I noticed the ‘face’ in the fist holding the knife.
Sheril KirshenbaumPlanet Earth or Planet Ocean?
Take a look at this fascinating data visualization of countries by their share of Earth’s surface.
There are over 510M square kilometers of area, but <30% is covered by land. Over 70% is the ocean.
Image by Nicholas LePan for Visual Capitalist. Details at https://www.visualcapitalist.com/countries-by-share-of-earths-surface/ #nature #science
S. K. Riley#Sydney Town Hall.
“The Earth is changing. Why aren’t we?”
#SchoolStrikeforClimate #ClimateStrike #ClimateActionNow #FridaysForFuture #SchoolStrike4Climate #Australia
NASA JPL PicturesSoaring Over Jupiter
This striking image of Jupiter was captured on Sept. 1, 2017 by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it performed its eighth flyby of the gas giant planet.
Credits: Enhanced image by Gerald Eichstädt based on images provided courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS.<br/><a href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/imagepolicy/" target="new">Media Usage Guidelines</a>
Instrument: JunoCam
Mission: Juno
Tags: Jupiter
More: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21966
#astrodon
About 109B people have lived & died. Each grain of sand represents 10M.
Several folks have asked about death rates after the previous post, so I'm resharing this incredible data visualization of human life on Earth by Max Roser from Our World in Data. /2
@horroryear is it any good? The rating puts me off. Sounds a bit tame.