Rosette Nebula: a “stellar nursery” that resembles a flower Known formally as NGC 2237, the petals of the Rosette Nebula are actually what astronomers refer to as a “stellar nursery,” a massive, energy-rich molecular cloud brimming with nascent celestial bodies. The nebula owes its symmetric shape to the winds and radiation that emanate from its [...]
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Your Minimum Daily Requirement of Beauty
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beauty, rosette nebula on May 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
How Much Beauty Can You Endure?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beauty, earth, space on April 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
10 Years of Gorgeous Images of Earth From Space
Feminist Pronoia
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged feminism, women on April 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
150 Fearless Women: fighting rape in the military . . . blocking sex slavery . . . supporting victims of domestic violence . . . ensuring clean, safe water for communities who didn’t have it . . . journalists exposing social injustice . . . resisting the abuses of religious fundamentalism
Re-Interpret Your Blessings
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bagpipes, darth vader, worms on March 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Vote for the phenomenon you’d like to serve as the ruling symbol for this week: Darth Vader In A Kilt On A Unicycle Playing Bagpipes The bone-eating snot-flower worm
What if 2012 Is About the Opposite of Apocalypse?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged occupy, wall street on February 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This Changes Everything How the 99% woke up: a book about how the Occupy movement is shifting the way people view themselves and the world, the kind of society they believe is possible, and their own involvement in creating a society that works for the 99% rather than just the 1%. The Occupy movement, as [...]
The Art of Feeling Good
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged happiness on August 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A movie about what makes people happy
Unsung Heroism
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged environment, sustainability, women on August 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Remarkable women developing solutions and guiding us towards a sustainable future. Eco Amazons brings together for the first time the women leading the charge to create a sustainable future for all life on Earth. Their efforts demonstrate how individual concern gives rise to passion, how passion leads to action, and how action effects meaningful change—efforts [...]
Turning the Cult of Narcissism Against Itself
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged charity, fame, generosity on July 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Girl who was made fun of uses her fame to help charitable organization She was just an average thirteen-year-old girl, until overnight her awkward dancing in the background of Rebecca Black’s “Friday” video made her a target of near-universal derision on the Internet…When Benni Cinkle finally responded to the attention and began answering questions, the [...]
Now Even Macho Dudes Are Fighting for Justice
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged lgbt, sf giants on June 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The San Francisco Giants posted its "It Gets Better" video on YouTube, becoming the first professional sports team to join the online campaign against gay bullying and homophobia. Five Giants appear in the 58-second video — pitchers Matt Cain, Barry Zito and Sergio Romo, centerfielder Andres Torres, and batting coach Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens.
Human Beings Are Inexorably Enterprising
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged clean water, nepal on May 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A sustainable solution to unsafe drinking water in Nepal The organization, through Mr. Prajapati’s leadership in Nepal, trains potters throughout the country to produce low-cost clay water filters and helps them to build effective businesses through Village Forward’s micro-franchise model.
Let’s Recognize Every Type of Genius
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged harlem, health, heroes on May 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Greatest Person Of The Day: Dr. Alwyn Cohall, Harlem Health Advocate I grew up in Harlem, a community steeped in a rich heritage of cultural and political achievement. However, it is also a community beset disproportionately by health problems. Even as a child, I knew I had to do something to help better conditions for [...]
Apologies from the editor
Posted in Uncategorized on June 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Greetings Pronoiacs, If you follow this site at all, you may have noticed that the posts have been lagging behind Rob’s weekly newsletter. The reason for this is that I took an unannounced paternity leave – my wife and I had our first child a few weeks ago, and my online life has fallen a [...]
