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The Highest Resolution Image of Earth Ever

This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth’s surface taken on January 4, 2012.

Photo courtesy of NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring

Ed note: Perfect for your desktop background. Click the photo for the 8000x8000 image

h/t Gizmodo

When Reptile Scales Resemble Beautiful Mosaics

The psychology of color

Is Sweden’s Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?

Incredible Photographs Look Like Traditional Chinese Paintings

The Benefits of Plants

“Fotoshop by Adobé”

This commercial isn’t real, neither are society’s standards of beauty.

(Source: vimeo.com)

I finally found a comprehensive set of vector social media icons. I’m definitely bookmarking this (and you should too)

Maldivian Leaders Might Move the Entire Nation to Australia If Sea Keeps Rising

(Source: ilovecharts)