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NotesCassini successfully flies over Enceladus
This flyby was designed primarily to analyze the composition of the saturnian moon’s south polar plume as the spacecraft flew through it. — Published: April 18, 2012- This image was taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft April 14, 2012. The camera was pointing toward Enceladus at approximately 75,067 miles (120,808 kilometers) away. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
- This image was taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft April 15, 2012. The camera was pointing toward Tethys at approximately 115,714 miles (186,224 kilometers) away. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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"Imagine your / moon-clinging Atlantic iris / slipping over the angular fields and / factories of your face. / Feel safest now. / The envelope seals out the brittle coast"
Brent Armendinger, “Dear M______”
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Notes"I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon."Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
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Notes"But how it burned and how we wanted further trees and how the moon grew ludicrous pink and how dramatic the rays and how they eluded you and how a sentence messed with us and how the currency seduced me and how we stole down to the lagoon and swam and swam until we were gone."Mark Bibbins
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Love love love this movie
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Jim Goldberg TURKEY. 1990.
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“People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.”
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“You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You...”
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How self-aggrandizing.
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For women who are tied to the moon, love alone is not enough. We insist each day wrap it’s knuckles through our heart strings and pull. The lows....
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Yes yes yes to all of this.
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Today In History
‘Dr.Mae Carol Jemison became the first black woman astronaut on this date June 5, 1987.’
OK, so now it’s...
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Isn’t being stuck on the tarmac a drag? Not when you have the Philadelphia Orchestra on board with you. Read more at NPR’s The Two-Way.
