There Is No Point At Which You Can Say, ‘Well, I’m Successful Now. I Might As Well Take A Nap.

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6 Social Media Trends That Will Take Over 2017 (Infograpic by Sprout Socia)l

An Atlas V rocket blasts off into space in 2012 from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida! So cool. 🚀🚀 📷: Mike Killian/NASA #Space #Rockets #ScienceAlert http://ift.tt/2jzRx7U

Navigate the Jungle of Tech Ecosystems

How Apple, Google and Microsoft are racing to control your digital life—from phone to home-automation system

Which digital ecosystem will you choose?

The disparity in online access is also apparent in what has been called the “homework gap,” or the gap between school-age children who have access to high-speed internet at home and those who don’t. Some 5 million school-age children do not have a broadband internet connection at home, with low-income households accounting for a disproportionate share.

Digital divide persists even as lower-income Americans make gains in tech adoption, Monica Anderson, Pew Research Center

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It breaks my heart that there are children struggling to keep up at school because they don’t have the same access to the Internet as their peers. If you also want to help, please consider donating or volunteering: http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/education/digitaldivide/

Some very old books at Museo Correr, Venice

People with passion can change the world for the better.

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“Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.” — Steve Jobs (born February 24, 1955) http://stuf.ly/2lT6ovV

Physicists have finally figured out why these massive ice discs start spinning on their own

New physics from a 100-year-old mystery.

New physics doesn’t always come from the recesses of space or the bowels of the Large Hadron Collider. Sometimes, you just need some cameras, a nickel bead, a magnet, and Petri dish popsicles.

Every once in a while, someone notices a big disc of ice eerily spinning in a river. These discs can be anywhere from 1 to 200 metres across, and almost everything about them has mystified physicists and environmental scientists for over a century. While it’s thought that this rare natural phenomenon is likely was caused by cold, dense air coming in contact with an eddy in a river, no one’s been able to definitively explain why these giant discs continue to rotate as they melt. Until now.

The most common explanation for the spinning ice discs says that as the discs float along in a river, they’re spun around by eddies - little spinning currents that form when water flows over rocks or into an enclosed space. And while this is this is probably part of what’s happening, it can’t be the whole story.