The colors in this! Via empire-of-dust.
Your brain on caffeine
“So about a year ago I slowly tapered down, and now I have, if anything, a cup of tea (half black, half peppermint) in the morning. (The amount of caffeine from the black tea isn’t enough to wire a gnat.) Not only does my body feel better now, my brain is clean of caffeine, so I really want (or need) a good neural jump-start, I will freely…nay, ecstatically…indulge. Then I stop and let the brain settle again.”
#fuckyeahamypoehler
Books’n books
You Must Love Me won the Academy Award for best original song in 1997 and was written especially for the theatrical version of Evita starring, as I’m sure you remember, Madonna. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, who wrote the music for the musical, reunited after eleven years to write this song.
They Can’t Take That Away From Me, written in 1937 by George and Ira Gershwin and introduced by Fred Astaire in Shall We Dance. George Gershwin died the same year and was posthumously nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
9/11 MONUMENTS ON MARS
But Gorevean isn’t just clever about engineering, he’s also clever about his health and fitness. In 2001, though he lived just blocks away from Honeybee’s Manhattan offices, he biked to work along a circuitous route that took him through the plaza at the World Trade Center.
On the morning of Sept. 11, he heard jet engines on his ride. Not the sound of a regular approach to LaGuardia or JFK Airports, either, but the out-of place sound of engines accelerating and flying too low to the ground. Then he heard a crash. He stopped and got off his bike. Standing in the street with a dozen or so others, he stared at the flames spewing out of the North tower. After a minute, he hopped back on his bike and pedaled the mile north to Honeybee.
Honeybee employees watched the morning’s events unfold from their building’s rooftop. They saw the towers fall and watched as masses migrated away from the site, ghostlike from a layer of soot. But work at Honeybee couldn’t stop; employees couldn’t put their work on hold to help the city recover. They had to go to Mars.
Steve Kondos, the JPL engineer in charge of the Honeybee RAT contract, came up with the way for the New York company to honor the victims: include material from the wreckage of the World Trade Center on the rovers. A lasting tribute on Spirit and Opportunity from the whole MER team.
Hans Zimmer’s studio. Click to get even more jealous.
BRAINS
(via swampthingy)
