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flirtuallreality: Mugshot for Monday.

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:21:16 -0400

flirtuallreality:

Mugshot for Monday.

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Thu, 23 May 2013 00:54:18 -0400

babblzoom: 💝

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:27:15 -0400

babblzoom:

💝

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Wed, 22 May 2013 23:58:07 -0400

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Wed, 22 May 2013 23:57:56 -0400

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Wed, 22 May 2013 23:57:53 -0400

stiffspeed: Collective owners

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:57:51 -0400

stiffspeed:

Collective owners

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Wed, 22 May 2013 23:57:48 -0400

packlight-travelfar: Harvest Time by Dave Toussaint...

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:57:46 -0400

packlight-travelfar:

Harvest Time by Dave Toussaint (www.photographersnature.com) on Flickr.

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thenewenlightenmentage: “First Evidence for Extraterrestrial...

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:57:44 -0400

thenewenlightenmentage:

“First Evidence for Extraterrestrial Sources of High-Energy Neutrinos” —Reports Antarctica Observatory

Although cosmic rays were discovered 100 years ago, their origin remains one of the most enduring mysteries in physics. Until now. A massive telescope at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in the Antarctic ice reports the detection of 28 extremely high-energy neutrinos that might have their origin in cosmic sources. Two of these reached energies greater than 1 petaelectronvolt (PeV), an energy level thousands of times higher than the highest energy neutrino yet produced in a manmade accelerator.

“We’re looking for the first time at high energy neutrinos that are not coming from the atmosphere,” says Francis Halzen, principal investigator of IceCube and the Hilldale and Gregory Breit Distinguished Professor of Physics at University of Wisconsin–Madison. “This is what we were looking for,” he adds.

Because they rarely interact with matter and are unimpeded by gravity, neutrinos can carry information about the workings of the highest-energy and most distant phenomena in the universe. Though billions of neutrinos pass through the Earth every second, the vast majority originate either in the sun or in the Earth’s atmosphere. Far rarer are high-energy neutrinos that may hail from the most powerful cosmic events — such as gamma ray bursts, black holes, or star formation — where they would be created in association with high-energy cosmic rays that can reach energies up to thousands of PeVs.

Postdoctoral fellow Nathan Whitehorn described 28 high-energy neutrino events captured by the detector between May 2010 and May 2012. These events, including two that exceeded the unprecedented energy level of 1 PeV, were one of the main goals for building a detector such as IceCube.

“Their properties are strongly inconsistent with what you would expect of atmospheric sources and are almost exactly what you would expect from an astrophysical source,” Whitehorn says. It is premature to speculate where these neutrinos originated, he adds, but the IceCube collaboration is continuing to refine and expand the analysis.

IceCube is comprised of more than 5,000 digital optical modules suspended in a cubic kilometer of ice at the South Pole. The National Science Foundation-supported observatory detects neutrinos through the tiny flashes of blue light produced when a neutrino interacts with a water molecule in the ice.

The first hints of high-energy neutrinos came with the unexpected discovery in April 2012 of two detector events above 1 PeV. An analysis of those events was reported last month in a paper submitted to the journal Physical Review Letters. An intensified search, led by Whitehorn and fellow WIPAC scientists Claudio Kopper and Naoko Kurahashi Neilson, turned up 26 additional events exceeding 30 teraelectronvolts (TeV; one-thousandth of a PeV), which will be described in a forthcoming publication.

The Daily Galaxy via http://www.news.wisc.edu/21790

piratetreasure: justine greiner

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:57:41 -0400

piratetreasure:

justine greiner

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Wed, 22 May 2013 23:57:39 -0400

relytfagan: Dream car. 😍 #mustang #shelby #occruiseweek...

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:57:37 -0400

relytfagan:

Dream car. 😍 #mustang #shelby #occruiseweek #oldiebutgoodie

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Wed, 22 May 2013 23:57:34 -0400

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thecrimsonarcher: Elkmont, Tennessee— Out of the many houses...

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:57:30 -0400

thecrimsonarcher:

Elkmont, Tennessee—

Out of the many houses which were left standing in the remains of the ghost town of Elkmont, the home I was most anxious in seeing was a small blue house which once belonged to a sweet little old lady who became despondent after seeing the state of decay her childhood home was in back in 2011. Since that memorable moment, I had returned to Elkmont on 3 more occasions, being sure to visit this house first before making our way on Millionaire’s Row. We now refer to this sad little house as the “Old Lady’s House”. Here’s the story behind why I had called it this, as told by me in 2011 during a visit to Elkmont—

“There was an older couple walking down the graveled pathway which led to some of the decrepit ruins of the once majestic vacation homes from an era of Elkmont’s history that has long passed. The older lady led the way, walking to the houses as if driven by something. We were behind them and I could hear them talking and her husband looked to her and asked, “You stayed here back when you were a little girl, right?” She smiled sadly, as if to fight back the tears, and pointed to this ruined house, answering back, “I stayed here once, a long time ago.” It was such a heartbreaking scene to me and I really wish that I talked to that woman and listened to her stories about Elkmont’s former glory. Throughout our entire walk through Elkmont, this older couple quietly followed us, and I could faintly hear the older woman telling her husband about the history of each and every home that was standing there. I really wish I talked to her now.”

gentlemensmuse: This just might be the top of the list. Perfect...

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:57:27 -0400

gentlemensmuse:

This just might be the top of the list. Perfect cabin.

Source: Tiny House Swoon

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Wed, 22 May 2013 23:57:25 -0400

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Wed, 22 May 2013 23:57:23 -0400

5window: 39 Ford

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:57:20 -0400

5window:

39 Ford