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By shining laser light through soap bubbles, researchers have demonstrated branching flow in light for the first time. (Video credit: Nature; research credit: A. Patsyk et al.; submitted by Kam-Yung Soh) Read the full article

Albert Einstein teaching at Lincoln, the United State’s first Historical Black University in 1946. The Nobel prize winning scientist said: “The separation of the races is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.”

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Of course, the terrible things I heard from the Nuremberg Trials, about the six million Jews and the people from other races who were killed, were facts that shocked me deeply. But I wasn’t able to see the connection with my own past. I was satisfied that I wasn’t personally to blame and that I hadn’t known about those things. I wasn’t aware of the extent. But one day I went past the memorial plaque which had been put up for Sophie Scholl in Franz Josef Strasse, and I saw that she was born the same year as me, and she was executed the same year I started working for Hitler. And at that moment I actually sensed that it was no excuse to be young, and that it would have been possible to find things out. 

Hour of the Wolf (1968)  

“Forms of mountains in profile.” Atlas Of Physical Geography. 1852. David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Frontispiece, detail.

There’s a brain condition that gives you an uncontrollable urge to make puns. If you’ve damaged the right frontal lobe of your brain, you can develop Witzelsucht, which is German for “joke addiction”. The condition causes a compulsive need to constantly make up or tell jokes- even in the middle of the night or during an important interview. Source Source 2 Source 3

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