Dancers + camera + kaleidoscope = this infinitely gorgeous short video. (Watch in 1080p fullscreen if you can.) It’s made for TEDxSummit, an unprecedented gathering of TEDx organizers from around the world– and the video celebrates “the power of x” to multiply great ideas.
Learn more about TEDxSummit: http://tedxsummit.ted.com
source::::You Tube
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A baby fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty !!!
Are you a new parent or know someone close who is? Then you will certainly relate to these cute little happenings that every new parent experiences.
1. Long talks over the phone without your baby interrupting is impossible
2. You get super good at multitasking
3. You have to eat super fast
4. Waking up at 2 am, 4 am, 6am to feed the baby
5. The house will have an awesome baby smell
6. You will invent your own ways to deal with the baby poop thing
7. Whenever you go out, you will have to carry bags of baby stuff
8. Your constant worry – ways your baby can get hurt and how to prevent it
9. You will curse yourself when your baby slips down and gets hurt
10. You will become pro at washing their tiny clothes
11. You will high five your partner when it crosses all points in the progress sheet
12. They will do weird things and utter weird names. You will start using those names too
13. Chocolates and candies will taste better coz you’ll rarely get to eat them. All for the kid
14. You will know what’s on the cartoon channel better than the news channel
And you’ll know all their names by heart
15. You will do things you thought were dumb.
16. You will start spending less on yourself and save more for your kid
17. You will use some of your parent’s tricks on your kid
18. Your house will get messy with scattered food, toys but will get more colorful than ever
19. You punish them to correct their mistakes, but you get hurt too
20. Your laptop, phone will be filled with cute pictures & videos of your kid
21. You don’t realize how fast your kid grows
22. They will destroy things you loved, but that’s OK
23. You will die to see that look on their face when you surprise them
24. They will make you laugh like never before
“A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for”
source::: Anonymous (probably a parent) 
in Story pick site
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The young group of teenagers at DexterLab, who usually restrict themselves to the comedy genre, has come up with a very interesting and thought provoking video. A faceless man travels across Mumbai, with the intent of spreading a few smiles.
The best part of the video is where the ‘giving hand’ picks up things from religious places & offers them the the needy instead. The concept strikes a chord because the ‘giving hand’ is faceless: it can be anyone, it can be me, it can be you.
source::::You Tube and Story Pick
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Have you ever walked down the street, only to be surprised by a happy little face you see in the concrete? Or the parking meter? Seeing faces in inanimate objects or when things look like other things is called pareidolia. It’s an awesome kind of visual illusion that even has its own sub-Reddit.
After you see this, you’ll be spotting faces in everything. Even your seatbelt will look like a happy little man (and you won’t feel crazy for thinking that).
There are chipper lil’ guys in the world around you, you just have to keep an eye out for them. Famous astronomer and scientist Carl Sagan hypothesized that as a survival technique, human beings are “hard-wired” from birth to identify the human face. That’s why we look for it in our coffee foam now.
source:::: viral nova trending site
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The X-37B is a kind of robotic space plane, built by the US. It’s been in Earth’s orbit for more than 500 days. And its real purpose is a complete mystery. Intrigued?
Constructed in California, the Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Space Vehicle was built for the US Air Force as a test vehicle; not intended to reach production. It is a quarter the size of the Endeavour Space Shuttle. It is equipped with heat-shield protection for re-entry to Earth’s atmosphere.
Currently the X-37B is orbiting at 28,044km/h, at a distance of around 350km in the sky. It can land, but no one will say when that will be.
It’s been in the sky before, after being launched on April 22, 2010, on a rocket. It then landed on December 3, 2010 – blowing a tire and suffering minor damage to its underbelly.
It took off again from Cape Canaveral on December 11, 2012 – now reaching 500 days in orbit.
The Air Force also launched a second model of X-37B on March 5, 2011. Described by the U.S. military as an “effort to test new space technologies”, it landed safely at Vandenberg Air Force Base on June 16, 2012, after 469 days in space. This third mission has now smashed this previous record.
X-37B’s actual functions are still heavily classified.
As you’d imagine, conspiracy theorists are having a field day, and here’s why:
Powered by a solar panel that unfurls once in orbit, X-37B can open with small, shuttle-like payload bay in its middle – think of a clamshell opening from underneath. There’s room for more than just a solar panel too. Exactly what items it carries, and why they need to be in space so long, has proved elusive for analysts, the space community, and the media.
To add further intrigue, the plane is classified as a secret project, yet maker Boeing has released pictures and more than two pages of details on the X-37B. That’s not how secrets are usually dealt with. By contrast, the secretLockheed SR-71 Blackbird was not declassified until decades after it had been flown in the Vietnam War.
The X-37 started life way back in 1999 when NASA asked Boeing’s Phantom Works division to develop an orbital test vehicle. This was a civilian project, and the X-37 was originally spec’d as an unmanned, robotic spacecraft that would rendezvous with satellites to refuel, repair them, or crash them back to Earth once their lifecycle was complete. But, in 2004, the project was transferred to DARPA and since then, it has been highly classified.
The amateur skywatching community that documents satellites say it’s orbiting between 43.5 degrees north latitude to 43.5 degrees south latitude. That’s a band around the middle of Earth that takes in much of the US, Middle East, and Asia, but is away from Russia, and Europe. Spotters suggest that at the altitude of 350km, it is ideal altitude for spying, but too low to refuel or fix other satellites.
It’s versatile, and has worked well enough that Boeing is contracted to create the next model, the X-37C. It will be at least 65% larger and have the ability to carry up to six astronauts, while operating unmanned.
The two most popular theories suggest the vehicle is simply running an extended duration test – a marathon in space. The other theory is that the two previous missions prove the testing phase is complete, and it is now on an extended operation running a mission, or multiple missions.
The long endurance run theory has credit; proving that new, experimental critical components can work reliably for a long-duration in space, close to Earth.
The running-mission has credit too – with two previous missions complete, X-37B can now operate at length. And perhaps it is – observing, spying, experimenting, hosting space-weapons, or collecting data for the NSA. We just don’t know.
Both theories are plausible.
Plenty of conspiracy theorist have posed the question of X-37B carrying a nuclear payload, to guarantee a ‘first strike’ opportunity (or to have a counter-option in place).
If you have any hope for humanity, that can’t be right. The US is a signatory to The Space Treaty, which is no joke. Space-based weapons of mass destruction are banned.
(One curious example of a space-based weapon that isn’t banned is a Kinetic strike, where objects whizzing around the Earth at great speed are intentionally sent to the ground, causing a meteorite-like impact and widespread damage. This type of attack is also known as ‘Rods from God’.)
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It looks like someone painted the sky with breaking ocean waves. They are called Kelvin Helmholzt clouds, aka as billow clouds or shear-gravity clouds.
Here’s a special kind of cloud known to scientists as a Kelvin Helmholtz cloud. They look like breaking ocean waves, with the rolling eddies seen at the top of the cloud layers usually evenly spaced and easily identifiable. Kelvin Helmholtz clouds are named for Lord Kelvin and Hermann von Helmholtz, who studied the physics of the instability that leads to this type of cloud formation.
How Kelvin Helmholtz clouds form. A Kelvin Helmholtz instability forms where there’s a velocity difference across the interface between two fluids: for example, wind blowing over water. You’ll often see the characteristic wave structure in this type of cloud when two different layers of air in our atmosphere are moving at different speeds. The upper layers of air are moving at higher speeds and will often scoop the top of the cloud layer into these wave-like rolling structures.
The clouds often form on windy days, when there’s a difference in densities of the air, for exmaple, during a temperature inversion.
These clouds are often good indicators of atmospheric instability and the presence of turbulence for aircraft.
source::::Earth sky news site
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We’re often told that it’s not about how we fall in life, it’s whether we get back up and keep fighting. Because everyone will stumble from time to time, and it’s those who preserve through the trials and tribulations that have the success so many of us crave. But as we all know, it can be truly hard to rise up again after falling so hard; and it may even seem impossible. I guess that’s why life is so hard. It separates those who truly want something, from those that don’t.
That’s why this young girl by all accounts should have just given up. After all, when competing against the best athletes in the country, there’s no margin for error, especially the kind she makes. But what happened instead serves as an example to us all.
Well if that isn’t a shot in the arm to go out and reach for the impossible, I don’t know what is.
Please share with a friend who may have stumbled in the past, and needs your support to get back on the winning path.
source:::: You Tube & viral nova trending site
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