because perfection isn’t easy
Happy birthday, Joe Biden!
I usually don’t bring attention to politicians’ birthdays, but this story was just too cute. Yesterday after lunch, Obama presented twelve candlelit cupcakes to Biden for his 66th birthday. Then Obama and his staff sang “Happy Birthday”.
Squee.
Look at this, geeks. You can now burn the image of Darth Vader onto your morning breakfast with this really nifty toaster. But be careful: Hunger leads to the crispy side.
From from 52 to 48 with love, a photo project where Obama, McCain, and third party supporters reach out to each other in reconciliation.
Yosuke, an African grey parrot, flew out of his cage and got lost. (It was the second right after the intersection.) But he found his way back home by reciting his name and address.
Now if I could get my parakeets to recite names and addresses, I’ll have my own little live phonebooks. Think of the possibilities.
(via Disgrasian)
Byrnes at the Boston Museum of Science. He has one foot in Boston and the other in Cambridge. Picture taken summer 2007.
Not only is Natalie Portman successful, socially conscious, and beautiful, she is whip-crackin’ smart and encourages other girls to do the same. She once said that she’d “rather be smart than a movie star,” and she is certainly living up to her words. Recently, she has been a guest editor for Scholastic MATH, a magazine that shows the fun of mathematics.
Here’s what she has to say about the subject:
Sure, you need to use math daily for knowing how much tip to leave at a restaurant or how much flour you need to make double the amount of cookies in a recipe, but it is the less obviously practical parts of math that are most fun for me—like considering the principles of infinity. It made me excited about life to consider the limitlessness of the mind and what we can do with it.
Absolutely fabulous. Way to get young people to understand math not just as number-crunching, but as a set of interesting ideas.
(via Shameless Magazine)
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