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A mostrar mensagens de novembro, 2011

Mark Twain, November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Now this is Food Pron :-Þ or The Art of Andrea Bricco and Dianna Perrin

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Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter Andrea photography Dianna Food styling

Stanislaw Lem's The Astronauts 60th anniversary

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From The Guardian : A  spiky-haired, bespectacled animation of the Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem marches across Google's doodle this morning , as the search engine marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of his first book,  The Astronauts . Lem remains best known for his cult novel  Solaris , the story of an incomprehensible intelligence encountered on an alien planet. It has been adapted for cinema twice,  by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972  and  by Steven Soderbergh, starring George Clooney, 30 years later , and was first published in 1961, during the author's most fertile period, when he also produced his most famous works including Hospital of the Transfiguration, The Invincible and Tales of Pirx the Pilot. But the doodle, which sees the Lem figure encounter a giant robot, is commemorating publication of his lesser-known first book Astronauci (The Astronauts), which was released in 1951, 60 years ago. The story of ...

DAGUERRE, parbleu! :)

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Damn you, man! Nobody has such an amazing face!

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Gary Oldman is GQ's Icon of the year 2011 :)

Surf's Up in Nazaré :)

Marie Curie and other historic female scientists you should know

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Emilie du Chatelet (1706 – 1749) Gabrielle-Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, the daughter of the French court’s chief of protocol, married the marquis du Chatelet in 1725. She lived the life of a courtier and bore three children. But at age 27, she began studying mathematics seriously and then branched into physics. This interest intensified as she began an affair with the philosopher Voltaire, who also had a love of science. Their scientific collaborations—they outfitted a laboratory at du Chatelet’s home, Chateau de Cirey, and, in a bit of a competition, each entered an essay into a contest on the nature of fire (neither won)—outlasted their romance. Du Chatelet’s most lasting contribution to science was her French translation of Isaac Newton’s  Principia , which is still in use today. At age 43, she fell in love with a young military officer and became pregnant; she died following complications during the birth of their child. Caroline Herschel (1750 – 1848) Herschel...