Instead Of Worrying About What You Cannot Control, Shift Your Energy To What You Can Create.

Lunar south pole

by Pascal Paquereau

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The image was taken with good conditions on February 5, 2020. The play of shadows near the south lunar pole gives relief to the craters. Equipment: Skywatcher 254/1200 telescope (0.18 “/ p), ASI178M, Baader Q-Turret X2.25 barlow and Baader green filter. Stack of 300 images with AS!3. The final image is presented with its acquisition size. Best regards.

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Unknown, After Hokusai, Cover of the 1905 first edition of Debussy’s La Mer published by A. Durand & Fils.

Image courtesy of Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music

Claude Debussy - Suite Bergamasque in F Minor, L 32: III. Clair de lune

Kees Scherer - Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Picasso. MOMA New York City 1959

Old books in Michael Moon’s Bookshop, Whitehaven.

I have a dream

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!”

- Martin Luther King Jr., delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

Happy MLK Day America and the whole world!

New York Subway Station

Photo: Dieter Krehbiel

What we call a “shooting star” is actually a meteor burning rapidly in our atmosphere. Here’s a picture taken by astronaut Ron Garan of a “shooting star” … from space. 

Classic Books List

“Why read the classics? A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” These are a few recommendations, books everyone should read. Don’t let yourself be convinced they are good: read and decide for yourself!

(no particular order intended)

Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell

Hard Times - Charles Dickens

The Karamazov Brothers - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

The Waves - Virginia Woolf

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

Hamlet - William Shakespeare

Richard II - William Shakespeare

Little Women - Louisa Alcott

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

Emma - Jane Austen

Anna Karenina - Liev Tolstói

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë

Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare

The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton 

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

Lord of The Flies - William Golding

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez

Persuasion - Jane Austen

War and Peace - Liev Tolstói

Macbeth - William Shakespeare

The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe

Dracula - Bram Stoker

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar - Edgar Allan Poe

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka 

Moby Dick - Herman Melville

Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

King Lear - William Shakespeare

The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell

Jean Barois - Roger Martin du Gard

Wives and Daughters - Elizabeth Gaskell

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Greta Thunberg led a protest at the White House on Friday. But she wasn’t looking to go inside, saying, “I don’t want to meet with people who don’t accept the science.”

The young Swedish activist joined a large crowd of protesters who had gather outside, calling for immediate action to help the environment and reverse an alarming warming trend in average global temperatures.

She says her message for President Trump is the same thing she tells other politicians: Listen to science, and take responsibility.

Thunberg, 16, will spend nearly a week in Washington, D.C. But she says she doesn’t plan to meet with anyone from the Trump administration during that time.

Greta Thunberg To U.S.: ‘You Have A Moral Responsibility’ On Climate Change

Photos: Mhari Shaw/NPR