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Matt Daniels is a designer, coder, and data scientist living in New York City. His past works include the Etymology of "Shorty" and Outkast, in graphs and charts. He decided to examine the vocabulary of hip hop artists, and this is what he found. – May 2014

The resulting coronal mass ejection (CME) shot through space at 900 miles per second. Although it wasn't aimed directly at Earth, it did interact with our magnetosphere, causing some spectacular auroras to appear on Monday night.

Dr. Seuss

(via Street Use: Jazz on Bones: X-Ray Sound Recordings)

(via Street Use: Jazz on Bones: X-Ray Sound Recordings)

(via Street Use: Jazz on Bones: X-Ray Sound Recordings)

The Caldwell Southwest Idaho Juvenile Detention Center detains children between the ages of 11 and 17 years old. When Ross visited, six girls were in detention for offenses that included runaway/curfew violations, lewd and lascivious conduct, molestation abuse, controlled substance, trafficking methamphetamine, burglary and possession of marijuana. (via Uncompromising Photos Expose Juvenile Detention in America | Raw File | Wired.com)

Primo Levi - The Story of a Carbon Atom

Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We are each so atomically numerous and so vigorously recycled at death that a significant number of our atoms – up to a billion for each us, it has been suggested – probably once belonged to Shakespeare.

Chapter 31 : Another Breed