How Many People Are In Space Right Now?
“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much other fiction. By contrast, the audience for an obscure novel is largely composed of people who read a lot. That means the least popular books are judged by people who have the highest standards, while the most popular are judged by people who literally do not know any better. An American who read just one book this year was disproportionately likely to have read “The Lost Symbol”, by Dan Brown. He almost certainly liked it.” — Media: A world of hits | The Economist (via kvasir)
breathtaking !
Bright Sun and Crescent Earth from the Space StationExplanation: This was just one more breathtaking view from the International Space Station. The Sun, a crescent Earth, and the long arm of a solar panel were all visible outside a window when the Space Shuttle Atlantis visited the orbiting outpost last week. Reflections from the window and hexagonal lens flares from the camera are superposed.
Terra Crescente: una foto dalla sonda ESA Rosetta
Credit & Copyright: ESA (MPS for OSIRIS Team), MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
Explanation: Goodbye Earth. Earlier this month, ESA’s interplanetary Rosetta spacecraft zoomed past the Earth on its way back across the Solar System. Pictured above, Earth showed a bright crescent phase featuring the South Pole to the passing rocket ship. Launched from Earth in 2004, Rosetta used the gravity of the Earth to help propel it out past Mars and toward a 2014 rendezvous with Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
I migliori spot (americani) degli anni 2000
AdweekMedia: Best of the 2000s: Vote Now
via metafilter
With such strong competition from Mozilla and Microsoft, the only thing Opera can do to stay competitive is to innovate. And one has to hand it to them: although it doesn’t have a huge user base in the desktop web browser space, Opera is always one step ahead of the rest, for better or for worse. (via Opera 10.10: Web Browser and Web Server In One
)
Remarkable Creatures - Darwinian Details on Origins of Snakes and Snails - NYTimes.com
“Without evolution, biology isn’t really science—it’s just memorization—and our kids, even the littlest ones, deserve a more interesting introduction to the natural world than that. It’s time we gave it to them.” — Mary Carmichael makes the case for teaching evolution for kids. (via newsweek)
Arrivano gli alieni e sono dei poracci. Wow.
Directed by Neill Blomkamp. With Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, Nathalie Boltt
(via creative)
Le leonidi sul Lago Mono (California)
Credit & Copyright: Tony Rowell
Explanation: In the scene, recorded near the peak of the annual Leonid meteor shower (now subsiding) on November 17th, a meteor trails through the frigid predawn sky.
The 100 Best Films of the Decade -
interessante lista del Times
The 100 Best Films of the Decade Art house or Blockbuster? Juno or Jason Bourne? Is The Bourne Supremacy really better than Brokeback Mountain? And if Finding Nemo made it, what the hell happened to Shrek? Tell us where we got it wrong, or right, and post your alternative lists below
What makes Mr. Cage such an unusual screen presence and an even more atypical movie star is that he’s habitually very good and very bad from movie to movie, and sometimes scene to scene in a single film.
(via Film - Exploring the Films of Nicolas Cage - NYTimes.com
)
La fantascienza a Trieste.
In città Roger Corman, Christopher Lee e Zampaglione. Musiche dal vivo L’edizione zero/nove di Science+Fiction, manifestazione dedicata all’esplorazione dei mondi del fantastico e delle nuove tecnologie nelle produzioni di cinema, televisione, arti visive e dello spettacolo, in programma a Trieste dal 22 al 28 novembre 2009 presso il Multiplex Cinecity. Tra gli ospiti più attesi, Roger Corman e Christopher Lee per il Premio Urania d’Argento alla Carriera
(500) Days of Summer o l’architettura della (in)felicità
moderno universo clipparo citazionista con Joseph Gordon-Levitt che si conferma (e sono dieci anni) il miglior “attor giovane” americano
Marc Webb - Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Zooey Deschanel
(500) Days of Summer is a 2009 American romantic comedy film. It was written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, directed by Marc Webb, produced by Mark Waters, and stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel.
