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Day: February 29, 2016

Life After the Ashley Madison Affair

Posted on Monday, 29 February, 2016Sunday, 20 August, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

Life After the Ashley Madison Affair Ashley Madison’s database was hacked by a group calling itself Impact Team six months ago, and the man who broke the news has written again about its aftermath in this long read. The sad stories are but the very tip of the iceberg, and

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No Time to Think

Posted on Monday, 29 February, 2016Sunday, 20 August, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

No Time to Think In this age as in all ages, our greatest problems arise from failures of the human spirit, propelled by pride, greed, fear, and hatred. Or people opt for paths of destruction because they believe it is the only alternative to a life of numbing meaninglessness. More

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Photographs February 2016 5

Posted on Monday, 29 February, 2016Sunday, 20 August, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

Photographs February 2016 5 Credits: The Guardian, The Telegraph

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Arp 188 and the Tadpole's Tail.
Image Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA; Processing: Faus Márquez (AAE). Distant galaxies form a dramatic backdrop for this disrupted spiral galaxy Arp 188, the Tadpole Galaxy. It is 420 million light-years distant toward the northern constellation of the Dragon (Draco), with its eye-catching tail of about 280 thousand light-years long, featuring massive, bright blue star clusters. It is theorised that a more compact intruder galaxy crossed in front of Arp 188 - from right to left in this view - and was slung around behind the Tadpole by their gravitational attraction, with tidal forces drawing out the spiral galaxy's stars, gas, and dust forming the spectacular tail. The intruder galaxy, 300,000 light-years behind the Tadpole, is seen through foreground spiral arms at the upper right.

Sunflowers (Tournesols) is the name of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The first series, executed in Paris in 1887, depicts the flowers lying on the ground, while the second set, executed a year later in Arles, shows a bouquet of sunflowers in a vase. In the artist's mind, both sets were linked by the name of his friend Paul Gauguin, who acquired two of the Paris versions. On March 30, 1987, Japanese insurance magnate, Yasuo Goto, paid the equivalent of US $39,921,750 for van Gogh's Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers at auction at Christie's London. The painting currently resides at Seiji Togo Yasuda Memorial Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.

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