A unique site dedicated to the RMS Titanic [photos]

I stumbled across this fantastic site relating to the Titanic ocean liner.  In some of the photos, you can roll over the image to get a closer look.  Among the many goodies, in the “Built in Belfast” category you’ll find:

• Marketing Titanic [postcards]
• First/Second/Third class views [rooms--see photos below]
• Titanic at Southhampton [views at Berth 44]
• Titanic Sails [photos]
• The Disaster Unfolds [Charts and Marconigrams--see photo below]

Samples photos

Dining room - 1st class

Dining room -2nd class

Dining room - 3rd class

Marconigram #5

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Hollie Steel breaks down while singing Edelweiss [video]

This kind of thing has happened on many “talent” shows...

I recall seeing ‘Oops, I forgot’ moments on American/Canadian Idol–they didn’t get another chance. What is your reaction to this clip?  What are your thoughts regarding second chances on this particular occasion? Did she get another chance?

Susan Boyle’s final performance and reactions [video]

Susan Boyle brought a tear to Simon’s eye?

See some interesting reactions in the related links below, including comments from Piers Morgan on his blog.  And see a video of the judges reactions.

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(10) Cool places to swim [photos/videos]

What a unique collection of places to swim!  Check these out…

1. Bioluminescent Bay, Puerto Rico
2. Jellyfish Lake, Palau
3. Devil’s Swimming Pool, Zambia (see photo/video below)
4. Dean’s Blue Hole, Bahamas
5. Zacaton Cenote, Mexico
6. The Dead Sea, Israel/Jordan
7. Chuuk, or Truk lagoon, Japan
8. Yangbajan hot springs, China
9. The Seagaia Ocean Dome, Japan (see photo below)
10. Sistema Sac Actun, Yucatan Peninsula

PHOTOS

Devil's Swimming Pool (Devil's Armchair)

 

Seagaia Ocean Dome

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Q: Have you ever visited these places?

(7) Spectacular 3D murals by trompe l’oeil artist John Pugh [photos]

These 3D murals painted by John Pugh just blow my mind! Visit the website for full view photos and details.  I wish I could afford to have these painted on each wall of my apartment

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(8) Toxic personalities

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On the link below, you’ll find definitions of eight toxic personality types and why to avoid them:

1. Manipulating Mary
2. Narcissist Nancy
3. Debbie Downers
4. Judgmental Jims
5. Dream Killing Keiths
6. Insincere Illissas
7. Disrespectful Dannys
8. Never Enough Nellies

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A “Titanic” gift for my readers

Cover of Titanic

Do you love the movie, Titanic?  Do you wish you owned the “Heart of the Ocean” necklace?  Well, I can’t give the real thing but I can give you this…

If you’d like me to personalize this tag for you, either

1. Post a comment with the desired name and your email address or
2. Email me at 1websurfer@gmail.com with “Heart of the Ocean” in the subject line.  Include your desired name.

It would be my honor to make you one.

Mom, the educator [humor]

*Via fwd email. Contact me if you are the author.

1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE.

“If you’re going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning..”

2. My mother taught me RELIGION.

“You better pray that will come out of the carpet.”

3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL.

“If you don’t straighten up, I’m going to knock you into the middle of next week!”

4. My mother taught me LOGIC.

“Because I said so, that’s why.”

5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC.

“If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you’re not going to the store with me.”

6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT.

“Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you’re in an accident.”

7. My mother taught me IRONY.

“Keep crying, and I’ll give you something to cry about.”

8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS.

“Shut your mouth and eat your supper.”

9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM.

“Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!”

10. My mother taught me about STAMINA.

“You’ll sit there until all that spinach is gone.”

11. My mother taught me about WEATHER.

“This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it.”

12. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY.

“If I told you once, I’ve told you a million times. Don’t exaggerate!”

13. My mother taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE.

“I brought you into this world, and I can take you out.”

14. My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION.

“Stop acting like your father!”

15. My mother taught me about ENVY.

“There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don’t have wonderful parents like you do.”

16. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION.

“Just wait until we get home.”

17. My mother taught me! about RECEIVING.

“You are going to get it when you get home!”

18. My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE.

“If you don’t stop crossing your eyes, They are going to freeze that way.”

19. My mother taught me ESP.

“Put your sweater on; don’t you think I know when you are cold?”

20. My mother taught me HUMOR.

 ”When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don’t come running to me.”

21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT.

“If you don’t eat your vegetables, you’ll never grow up.”

22. My mother taught me GENETICS.

 “You’re just like your father.”

23. My mother taught me about my ROOTS.

“Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?”

24. My mother taught me WISDOM.

 ”When you get to be my age, you’ll understand.”

25. And my favourite: my mother taught me about JUSTICE.

“One day you’ll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you!”

A mother’s job description [humor]

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*This is copied from a fwd email. If you are the author, contact me so I can give you proper attribution.

POSITION:
Mother, Mom, Mama, Mum, Mommy, Ma

JOB DESCRIPTION:
Long term, team players needed, for challenging permanent work in an, often chaotic environment. Candidates must possess excellent communication and organizational skills and be willing to work variable hours, which will include evenings and weekends and frequent 24 hour shifts on call. Some overnight travel required, including trips to primitive camping sites on rainy weekends and endless sports tournaments in far away cities. Travel expenses not reimbursed. Extensive courier duties also required.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
The rest of your life. Must be willing to be hated, at least temporarily, until someone needs $5. Must be willing to possess the physical stamina of a pack mule and be able to go from zero to 60 mph in three seconds flat in case, this time, the screams from the backyard are not someone just crying wolf. Must be willing to face stimulating technical challenges, such as small gadget repair, mysteriously sluggish toilets and stuck zippers. Must screen phone calls, maintain calendars and coordinate production of multiple homework projects. Must have ability to plan and organize social gatherings for clients of all ages and mental outlooks. Must handle assembly and product safety testing of a half million cheap, plastic toys, and battery operated devices. Must always hope for the best but be prepared for the worst. Must assume final, complete accountability for the quality of the end product. Responsibilities also include floor maintenance and janitorial work throughout the facility.

POSSIBILITY FOR ADVANCEMENT &  PROMOTION:
Virtually none. Your job is to remain in the same position for years, without complaining, constantly retraining and updating your skills, so that those in your charge can ultimately surpass you.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE:
None required unfortunately. On-the-job training offered on a continually exhausting basis.

WAGES AND COMPENSATION:
You pay them! Offering frequent raises and bonuses. A balloon payment is due when they turn 18. When you die, you give them whatever is left. The oddest thing about this reverse-salary scheme is that you actually enjoy it and wish you could only do more.

BENEFITS:
While no health or dental insurance, no pension, no tuition reimbursement, no paid holidays and no stock options are offered; this job supplies limitless opportunities for personal growth and free hugs for life if you play your cards right.

The smell of space as described by Julie Payette, Canadian astronaut [video]

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Since I don’t have cable, I wouldn’t have had the chance to see this remarkable video if it weren’t for the Internet…  Canadian astronaut, Julie Payette, describes her day in orbit and what space smells like!

Video

Dolphins make bubble rings! [video]

This is so amazing and fun…

“Watch the dolphins at SeaWorld Orlandos Dolphin Cove as they artfully create and play with underwater bubble rings and hear what SeaWorlds trainers, educators and guests have to say about this fun and fascinating behavior.”

An emotional memorial map for fallen soldiers

All I can say is, “Thank you, Sean, for creating this stunning interactive map.”  I watch the news and read newspaper articles of those who have died in this war but haven’t experienced the impact of their sacrifice until now.

Map of fallen soldiers

“This Memorial Day I would like to share with you a personal project of mine that uses Google Earth to honor the more than 5,700 American and Coalition servicemen and women that have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. I have created a map for Google Earth that will connect you with each of their stories—you can see photos, learn about how they died, visit memorial websites with comments from friends and families, and explore the places they called home and where they died.”

Download the Google Earth map here.

Bizarre but beautiful deep sea creatures! [video]

I am terrified of the water but am enthralled with its inhabitants!  The further you go into the video, the more bizarre the creatures.

Drifters of the deep from Eugenia Loli-Queru on Vimeo.

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Susan Boyle sings “Memory” on BGT [video]

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Literary locations: Affection, Sea of Frozen Words, and Thermometer Island

Look at the names of these WONDER-FULL literary locations (in alphabetical order) in stories and novels written between 1405-1910.  Some inhabitants conceive infants in their minds and give birth through their fingers!  My personal favorite is THERMOMETER ISLAND where the islanders are born with visible signs of their vocation.

AFFECTION, a country of unknown location, on the coast of the Dangerous Sea.  Many people have expressed a desire to visit Affection, or Tendre, but from New Friendship.  Affection itself is divided by three rivers: Gratitude or Avowal, Attachment, and Esteem, which descend into an estuary leading to the Dangerous Sea.  On the Sea of Enmity are a few towns best avoided: Pefidy, Slander, and others.  However, this region is not far from the beautiful city of Affection-on-Avowal, and a few hamlets like Caring, Sensibility and Constant Friendship should be visited.  Important towns are Loveletter, Pretty-poems, and Obedience.  The capital of Tendre is Affection-on-Esteem.  To the west of the country is a desolate region which harbors the Lake of Indifference.

(Madeleine De Scudery, La Chllie, Paris, 1660)

CITY OF VIRTUOUS WOMEN, or City of Ladies.  Not much is known about this famous city except that it is inhabited by women only, who are considered, because of their nature, more important and more noteworthy than men.  It was built with enormous blocks of stone, each of which carries the name of a famous woman.  The visitor will be able to identify the names of Semiramis, Amazonia, Aenobia, Artemis, Berenice, Clelia and Fredegorida, even though their deeds are now no longer remembered.  It is said that in order to open the gates of the city, a traveler must make herself a key out of “prudence, economy and breeding.”  No other instructions are given for visiting the City of Virtuous Women.

(Christine de Pisan, La Cite des Dames, Paris, 1405)

FLUTTERBUDGET CENTRE, a large town on a hill in southern oz, almost ont he border between Quadling Country and Winkie Country.  Like Rigmorole Town, Flutterbudget Centre is one of the defensive settlements of Oz.  Anyone in the country who shows signs of becoming a Flutterbudget is sent to live there.

Flutterbudgets are characterized by their constant worrying over imaginary fears and are obsessed by the disasters that might befall them if such-and-such a thing happened.  To take only one example: a Flutterbudget may complain that he cannot sleep because in order to do so he would have to close his eyes.  If he closed his eyes, the lids might stick together and he would then be blind for life.  He may well agree that he has never heard of such a thing happening, but will immediately add that it would be dreadful if it did and that the very idea makes him so nervous that he cannot fall asleep.

(L. Frank Baum, The Emerald City of Oz, Chicago, 1910)

ISLAND OF POETRY, inhabited by distracted and dreamy people not much given to speech.  Every morning they fall on their knees to adore the goddess Dawn whom they place high above the Nine Muses and Apollo.

The islanders possess the odd chacteristic of conceiving their infants in their heads and of giving birth through their fingers.  Many of these children are monsters; however, the inhabitants of the Island of Poetry do not cast them away but feed them with a nourishing meat called esteem.  When one of the islanders dies, he is embalmed in elaborate rhetorical apparatus and the trumpets of fame are sounded at his funeral.

The lack of political organization, economic development and military forces on the island is surprising.  The inhabitants’ only occupation seems to consist of wandering, lonely as clouds, by lone seabreakers, and sitting by desolate streams, composing all sorts of indifferent verses which they like to recite with great emphasis at their social gatherings.

(Jean Jacobe de Fremont d’Ablancourt, Supplement de l’Histoire Ventable de Lucien, Paris, 1654)

SEA OF FROZEN WORDS, on the edge of the frozen sea of the north.  In winter, all words and sounds in the area are frozen; as the milder weather approaches in spring, they begin to thaw out and can be clearly heard.  Travelers can pick up the frozen words, which resemble crystallized sweets of various colors.

Crossing the sea in summer, a certain Pantagruel heard the noise of a battle between Arimaspians and the Cloud-riders–a battle which had taken place at the start of the previous winter.

(Francois Rabelais, Le quart livre des faicts et dicts du bon Pantagruel, Paris, 1552)

THERMOMETER ISLAND, somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, so called because the laws of the country allow couples to sleep with each other only if the sexes of both husband and wife, measured with special thermometers, have reached the same temperature.  The sexual organs of the male inhabitants have curious shapes–parallelepipeds, pyramids, cylinders–and correspond exactly to those of the female islanders.  The queen of the island is elected from among those women who are the quickest in measuring the temperature of their own and their partners’ sex; this dexterity is highly honored on the island.

The islanders are born with the visible signs of their vocation: in this way each one is what he should be.  Those destined to the science of geometry are born with fingers in the form of a compass; someone who is to be an astronomer is born with eyes in the form of telescopes; geographers are born with heads like terrestrial globes; musicians with hornlike ears; hydraulic engineers with testicles like water pumps and they are capable from an early age of urinating in long jets.  Certain inhabitants who are born with several characteristics combined have proved in later life to be, in fact, good for nothing.

Visitors will be interested in a curious instrument found only on this island, a harpsichord that instead of producing sounds produces colors and is used by the ladies to find harmonious combinations for their dresses.

(Denis Diderot, Les Bijoux indiscrets, Paris, 1748)

TRUELAND, a country of unknown location, where nothing can be said or done that is not true.  Visitors will find upon arrival that every one of their actions must correspond to a strict code of gallantry and good manners and that everything they promise must sooner or later be fulfilled.  Should a visitor allow himself to drop even a piece of paper on the impecable streets of Trueland, he will find that it immediately jumps back into his pocket–an unpleasant characteristic of a country which has forced its inhabitants to dispense with dogs as pets.  Every blow given in Trueland comes back to the attacker, and every insult is felt as a blow by the one who has uttered it.  Visitors can go through the motions of their everyday life in Trueland, but these will here become unbearably tainted by social hypocrisy, disguised feelings or any other form of deceit.  Previous friendships, business partnerships and marriages tend to break up with astounding  regularity upon arrival and very few travellers who have been to Trueland are ever reinstated in their previous occupation.

(Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux, “Voyage au Monde Vrai“, in Le Cabinet du Philosophe, Paris, 1734)

The Scientists Quiz

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Questions

1. How did the Ancient Egyptians calculate when the River Nile would flood each year?
2. From what did the Mayans believe the world to be made?
3. Which Ancient Greek god was thought to cause earthquakes?
4. Name the two forces which Confucius believe were central to harmony in the Universe.
5. Name one of the two influential medical books written by IbnSina.
6. Name the four most important universities founded during the 12th-13th centures.
7. What part of Tycho Brahe’s body was cut off in a duel?
8. What two methods did Vesalius use to obtain specimens for this study of anatomy?
9. Vesalius wrote one of the greatest scientific books ever published.  What was it’s title?
10. What is the name given to the tiny blood vessels that connect veins and arteries?
11. Galileo was threatened with torture unless he denied which claim?
12. Name one of the founding members of the Royal Society.
13. What incident is said to have been the starting point for Isaac Newton’s theory of gravitation?
14. Linaeus developed a method of classifying plants called “binomial nomenclature”.  What does it mean?
15. Which book proposed that species had developed over long periods of time?
16. Name the two different theories concerning the structure of the earth preferred by Werner and Hutton.
17. What is the name given to the supercontinent by Wegener?
18. What was the name of the ship on which Charles Darwin sailed to South America?
19. What is the modern name for the gas that Joseph Priestley called “dephlogisticated gas”?
20. What is the name given to Mendeleev’s grouping of elements?
21. What is the name of the device Ewald von Kleist designed for storing static electricy?
22. What apparatus did Benjamin Franklin use to prove that lightning is a form of electricity?
23. Which measurement of electricity is named after an 18th century scientist?
24. Which process, discovered by Edward Jenner, is considered to be one of the most important advances ever made in medical science?
25. Who was the first person to receive two Nobel prizes?
26. On which plant did Mendel perform most of his experiments?
27. Why did Niels Bohr go to live in the USA in 1943?
28. Who was the first woman to be appointed assistant to the Court Astronomer in 1787?
29. Why was Mary Somerville’s first scientific paper submitted to the Royal Society by her husband?
30. In 1927, Georges Lemaitre propsed an idea that explained the origins of the Universe.  What is it now known as?

Answers

1. They studied the position of the moon and the stars.
2. They believed that the world was made from the back of a giant crocodile living in a pond.
3. Poseidon
4. Yin and Yang
5. The Canon and The Cure
6. Bologna, Oxford, Cambridge, and Paris
7. His nose
8. Grave robbing and taking bodies from the gallows.
9. The Fabric of the Human Body
10. Capillaries
11. The Earth moved around the Sun.
12. Christopher Wren, Samuel Pepys
13. He saw an apple fall from a tree.
14. It means that each plant has two names. One indicates its genus, the other its species.
15. The Natural History by Georges de Buffon
16. The “Neptunist” theory and the “Plutonist” theory.
17. Pangaea
18. HMS Beagle
19. Oxygen
20. The Periodic Table
21. The Leiden Jar
22. A kite fitted with a metal key.
23. The volt, after Alessandro Volta
24. Vaccination
25. Marie Curie
26. The pea plant.
27. To escape the Nazis.
28. Caroline Herschel.
29. At that time, women were banned from the organization.
30. The Big Bang Theory

(10) “Retouched” magazine photos gone bad [news/photos]

Here’s an interesting spin on the media and how they retouch photos to increase clarity:

“Many news photographs are Photoshopped here and there to increase clarity or to optimize for print or online display. But there have been several instances with where retouching has been pushed too far, changing the original intent or accuracy of the photo.”

Samples:

You will find retouched images from the following magazines:

1. National Geographic, February 1982
2. TIME Magazine, June 1994 [OJ Simpson]
3. Los Angeles Times, March 2003 [Soldier in Basra]
4. USA Today, October 2005 [Condoleeza Rice]
5. Liu Weigiang, 2006 [Tibetan railroad]
6. The Charlotte Observer, July 2006
7. Reuters, August 2006 [Beirut fires]
8. The Toledo Blade, April 2007
9. Liberty Times, December 2007 [Papal delegation]
10. Klavs Bo Christensen, April 2009

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Up close and personal [photos]

“Here you’ll experience the power of SEM in a journey of self-discovery that starts in your head, travels down through the chest and ends in the bowels of the abdomen. Along the way, you’ll see what’s normal, what happens when cells are twisted by cancer and what it looks like when an egg meets sperm for the first time.”

You will find 15 microscopic images of the following:

1. Red blood cells
2. Split end of a human hair
3. Purkinje neurons
4. Hair cell in the ear
5. Blood vessels emerging from the optic nerve
6. Tongue with taste bud
7. Tooth plaque
8. Blood clot
9. Alveoli in the lung
10. Lung cancer cell
11. Villi of small intestine
12. Human egg with coronal cells
13. Sperm on the surface of a human egg
14. Human embryo and sperm
15. Colored image of a 6-day old human embryo implanting

Lung cancer cells

Split end of human hair

Tooth plaque

Really interesting site!

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Advice from someone who’s never swallowed a pill [health]

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David H. Murdock, Chairman and Owner of Dole Food Company, has never allowed a pill–not even asprin–enter his mouth.  His fish-vegetarian diet incorporates over 30 fruits/vegetables each week.  A table of 33 of the healthiest foods is on the site.

Read more…

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“The View” staff predict American Idol winner [video]

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In a few hours, the answer to the question “Who is the next American Idol?” will be revealed.  In the meantime, the staff of The View TV show and guest Glenn Beck vote in on who will win tonight’s American Idol…

Prediction

Images of Atlantis and Hubble crossing the Sun [photos]

There are so many angles in which to introduce the following pictures: astronomical marvels, one-of-a-kind photography, measurement comparisons–the list goes on.  I can’t decide.  I just want to share these photos of the space shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble Space Telescope crossing in front of the sun.  Note the size comparisons!!!

Notice the spot in the lower left-hand corner

Closer inspection of the shuttle

The top of Atlantis and Hubble

Photo credits: NASA/Thierry Legault | www.astrophoto.fr

Click here to see full photos and read detailed explanations.

Tour the White House online [photos/videos]

I’ve never toured the White House but I’m grateful for websites like this that make it possible.  It has too many features to mention so you’ll just have to visit and see for yourself.  Sit back and enjoy the tour.

First floor of the East Wing

This online tour will take you through more than 140 areas in the grounds and mansion of the White House with photos and illustrations going back more than 200 years.

…This Web site is a private, unofficial, online effort to provide a place to explore the history and heritage of the home of the president of the United States of America…This site merely celebrates the architecture, history, and cultural significance of the White House in America and abroad.

I decided to create an online museum-like tour of the White House residence, offices, and grounds to help educate people on the amazing 200-year-old mansion, museum, state event host, office building, television and radio studio, and intelligence operations center known so simply as “The White House.”

Derek Jensen, Museum Director

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Need more desktop wallpaper? Look at this! [photos]

Oh my God!!!  I thought I’d seen great wallpaper sites until I came across this one–no, I can’t say that because they’re all spectacular.  But this site is definitely included in my favorites…Pxlshots.

Look at samples of what you’ll find:

Photo credit: slack12 (flickr)

Found here [100 Stunning Sunset and Sunrise Photos]

Photo credit: TchaikovskyC (deviant art)

Found here [100 Touching Photos Expressing Loneliness and Solitude]

Photo credit: mumbleyjoe (flickr)

Found here [50 Beautiful Long Exposure Photos]

The hidden magic of caves [photos/video]

Enjoy a tranquil photographic tour of the magical world of caves taken by National Geographic photographer Stephen Alvarez.

Photo Gallery Video

White tongue [photo]

White tongue - NEJM

“A 55-year-old male nonsmoker with multiple myeloma refractory to chemotherapy was admitted to the hospital for autologous stem-cell transplantation. Palifermin was to be administered before and after the transplantation. On completion of the 3-day infusion of palifermin before transplantation, an asymptomatic, white, adherent plaque developed, coating the tongue. Culture revealed normal oral flora, without candida. Oral mucositis did not develop, and the white plaque faded, without treatment, over a 1-week period and did not recur during the post-transplantation administration of palifermin. The patient was discharged 2 weeks after the successful transplantation. Palifermin, a recombinant keratinocyte growth factor, is used for the prevention of oral mucosal injury induced by cytotoxic therapy in patients undergoing hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation. Palifermin stimulates the proliferation and differentiation of epithelial cells. The white tongue is commonly observed in patients treated with palifermin and most likely reflects transient, protective mucosal thickening.“

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Aerial tour of New York

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I don’t have the money to travel but thanks to the internet I can virtually travel to all kinds of places–like New York.  All made possible by Pixelcase.  What a stunning tour of this city!  See it for yourself.  Just click any of the icons to zoom in, zoom out, travel west, etc.

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via The Presurfer

Free online psychology lectures from top universities [videos]

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Categories for these psychology lectures are as follows:

• General & Introductory
• Abnormal & Clinical
• Chemistry & Behaviour
• Child & Developmental
• History & Philosophy
• Language & Learning
• Media & Technolgoy
• Perception & Emotion
• Positive & Creative
• Reason & Cognition
• Social & Personality
• Research & Statistics
• Essays & Articles

Source - PsychLectures

Twitter theme song [video]

If you love old trucks and smashups, this is for you! [video]

Astronaut sends first twitter from space

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A NASA astronaut sent the first Twitter message from space with a post going up on the micro-blogging site at about 4:30 p.m. EDT today. The tweet came in the space shuttle Atlantis’ first full day in space on a mission to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope.

“From orbit: Launch was awesome!! I am feeling great, working hard, & enjoying the magnificent views, the adventure of a lifetime has begun!” wrote Massimino, who has been Twittering about his mission training for the past month.

NASA’s Atlantis craft blasted off Monday afternoon and reached orbit within 9 minutes. With the fiery liftoff, the seven-astronaut crew began its 11-day mission to repair and upgrade the Hubble telescope, which is orbiting about 350 miles above Earth. The shuttle mission — the last one going to the Hubble — is expected to give the orbiter at least another five years of life, according to the space agency.

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There’s just no end to where the next tweet will come from!

What a unique & beautiful planet! [video]

If you need to see the positives in life, if you need to escape from constant reminders of poverty and violence, you need to watch this relaxing video!  When the camera flies over waterfalls and frolicking dolphins, I am so thankful for these reminders of how rich our world really is.

“The magnificent music was composed and graciously gifted for this clip by composer Jo Blankenburg.”