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After decades of slump the discovery of the home planet of the Tribbles finally gave the wig industry a much-needed boost.
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The Groovy Age of Travel #8: Stewardesses - »
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"My how times have changed. Nowhere is the difference in the cultural mindset between our own time and that of the 1960s more striking than in the role of the flight attendant. The job basically was transformed from 'eye candy' to 'serious professional' in a manner of a few short years. It's a topic that I've gone into before on Retrospace, so I won't perform any further armchair sociology on the subject. Suffice it to say, the concept of total gender equality rendered the 'cocktail waitress in the sky' obsolete and an object of derision - a horrible example of male chauvinism in action."
A Waterworld Around GJ1214 - »
TINY REPTILIAN PYROMANIAC
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"GJ1214b is also near enough (13 parsecs, or about 40 light years) that Berta’s follow-up studies on its atmosphere using the Hubble Space Telescope’s WFC3 instrument have proven fruitful. [...] Earlier work on GJ1214b’s atmosphere had been unable to distinguish between water in the atmosphere and a worldwide haze, but the new work takes us a good way farther and into the planet’s internal structure."
"If you examine the density of this planet (known because we have good data on its mass and size), you get about 2 grams per cubic centimeter, a figure that suggests GJ1214b has much more water than the Earth and a good deal less rock (Earth’s average density is 5.5 g/cm3). We can deduce a fascinating internal structure, one in which, as Berta says, “The high temperatures and high pressures would form exotic materials like ‘hot ice’ or ‘superfluid water’ – substances that are completely alien to our everyday experience.”"
Mannequins II - »
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, Steven Perez
, AJ Batac :)
, John (bird whisperer)
, Zulema ▦ spicy cocoa tart
, Maitani
, Kelli H.
, Eivind
, and peamageddon
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The winner of tonight's random wine lottery is a 2009 Garnacha Syrah. - »
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, Angel
, Paul
, FUNdalina
, Maitani
, Eivind
, Derrick
, John (bird whisperer)
, Lix
, Kelli H.
, and Kristin
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YUM. How was it?
Good, not great. We prefer red with a little more body than this had, but it was very drinkable.
Discarded Cigarette - »
1942 ... how to kiss! - »
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, Oğlan Moğlan
, ANJELINABANANA
, Kelli H.
, jimungimm
, Eivind
, Shevonne
, peamageddon
, Maitani
, and Furkan Şahin
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Kissing techniques for actors.
Street Corner - »
Lindsey Wixson by Tim Walker for Vogue Italia January 2012 - »
Nothing at all moderately unsettling about this shoot. No sir, nothing at all.
A Heart For Patricia - »
Maitani
, Kelli H.
, John (bird whisperer)
, Zulema ▦ spicy cocoa tart
, and Nils Sandin
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Ever any problems or complaints from the people being photographed?
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Nils: only once with a man who got quite threatening even though he hadn't been in any photos (although he subsequently was *many times* because he'd pissed me off) and once - just this week - with a security guard who claimed that photographing the department store window display was a violation of the Data Protection Act (which earned him some derisory laughter and nothing else).
Tourist stay in the Paharganj area of Delhi, India. - »
So much poverty, yet so much life in these photos. The photographer was laid up for a few days in the hotel with the dreaded "Delhi Belly" and remarks just how cold it was there and how unprepared the city seemed to be to cope with the unexpectedly low temperatures at the time.
"How To" - Train Station by Benedict Chui - »
A lovely pictorial guide to producing a beautiful shot of a train station using HDR and multiple layer masks by a Google+ photographer friend of mine, Benedict Chui.
Alpha Centauri B: A Close Look at the Habitable Zone - »
"Centauri A and B, being high metallicity stars, are presumably prime candidates for circumstellar disks with a high solid material component, making the building blocks of planets readily available, and deepening the spectral lines for improved precision in radial velocity studies."
"It is reasonable to speculate that if life were to exist on planets around α Cen B, that they may develop two circadian rhythms (cf Breus et al. 1995) corresponding to both the length of day around the primary, and the period of the secondary’s orbit (approx 70 years). Altering the available habitat by a few percent may also influence migration patterns and population evolution."
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