A chilly 4-miler through the Olympic Sculpture Park in 36 minutes.
Month: December 2017
A PHOTO: Under the Midnight Sun
In September 2017, a new iceberg calved from Pine Island Glacier—one of the main outlets where the West Antarctic Ice Sheet flows into the ocean. via NASA http://ift.tt/2EcblGs
Meet the man striving to make Seattle’s streets safer, more efficient
Dongho Chang’s Twitter feed is boring. You want caustic political opinions or an endless cavalcade of bad news? Look elsewhere.
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The editorial meeting of the future
Newsrooms are up against a life-or-death mix of maladies: public distrust, dialogue breakdown, platform disruption, disinformation and the fact that everyone is getting completely different information. We’re all looking for a cure.
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Why Saad Hariri Had That Strange Sojourn in Saudi Arabia
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanon’s prime minister, Saad Hariri, was summoned at 8:30 a.m. to the Saudi royal offices — unseemly early, by the kingdom’s standards — on the second day of a visit that was already far from what he had expected. Mr.
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A PHOTO: Naples at Night
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this photograph of the city lights of Naples and the Campania region of southern Italy. via NASA http://ift.tt/2Dsv57t
A PHOTO: Kwanzaa Tholus on Ceres
These images show a subtle feature on dwarf planet Ceres called Kwanzaa Tholus. via NASA http://ift.tt/2Ccnzye
A PHOTO: Hubble’s Holiday Nebula “Ornament”
The Hubble Space Telescope captured what looks like a colorful holiday ornament in space. It's actually an image of NGC 6326, a planetary nebula with glowing wisps of outpouring gas. via NASA http://ift.tt/2CV8qkg
A PHOTO: Launch Day!
On Dec. 21, 1968, the Apollo 8 crew leaves the Kennedy Space Center's then-named Manned Spacecraft Operations Building during the mission's prelaunch countdown on the way to their history-making lunar orbiting flight. via NASA http://ift.tt/2zbwlJX
A PHOTO: Hello From Above
Greetings from @Astro_Sabot, otherwise known as Mark Vande Hei, from aboard the International Space Station. via NASA http://ift.tt/2z6xNx8
A PHOTO: The Bluest of Ice
Acquired on November 29 by Operation IceBridge during a flight to Victoria Land, this image shows an iceberg floating in Antarctica's McMurdo Sound. via NASA http://ift.tt/2kjgNz4
A PHOTO: Seeing an X-Plane’s Sonic Boom
This schlieren image shows an Air Force Test Pilot School T-38 in a transonic state, meaning the aircraft is transitioning from a subsonic speed to supersonic. via NASA http://ift.tt/2kHqUNB
A PHOTO: New Research Launches to Space Station Aboard SpaceX Resupply Mission
The two-stage Falcon 9 launch vehicle lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the Dragon resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station. Dragon will bring supplies, equipment and new science experiments for technology research to the orbiting laboratory. via NASA http://ift.tt/2BfDjA6
A PHOTO: Soyuz Carrying Expedition 53 Crew Lands in Kazakhstan
The Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 53 Commander Randy Bresnik of NASA and Flight Engineers Paolo Nespoli of ESA (European Space Agency) and Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian space agency Roscosmos near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017. via NASA http://ift.tt/2ytt3kN
A PHOTO: The Fault in Our Mars
This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) of northern Meridiani Planum shows faults that have disrupted layered deposits. via NASA http://ift.tt/2iXZy5j