Mark Twain in Nikola Tesla's lab in the spring of 1894.

Twain is holding Tesla's experimental vacuum lamp, which is powered by a loop of wire which is receiving electromagnetic energy from a Tesla coil (not visible). Tesla's face is visible in the background.
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Spring is here!

Which means that the flowers are blooming! What all have you all seen in YOUR backyards growing?
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Can you find the egg amongst the bunnies?

Hungarian cartoonist Gergely Dudás has done it again. Here's his latest challenge!
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Happy Easter to those who celebrate

We don't really celebrate but the Easter Bunny brought me this today. So I am looking forward to a fun night.
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Living

A boy plays with his toy truck at a makeshift camp for refugees and migrants at the port of Piraeus, near Athens, Greece March 24, 2016.
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Warmth

A meerkat enjoys the warmth of a heat lamp while standing in the meerkat enclosure at wildlife park "Opel Zoo" in Kronberg, Germany, March 20, 2016.
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Sycamore leaves edging the roots of a sycamore tree

Andy Goldsworthy is an extraordinary, innovative British artist whose collaborations with nature produce uniquely personal and intense artworks. Using a seemingly endless range of natural materials—snow, ice, leaves, bark, rock, clay, stones, feathers petals, twigs—he creates outdoor sculpture that manifests, however fleeting, a sympathetic contact with the natural world. Before they disappear, or as they disappear, Goldsworthy, records his work in superb colour photographs.
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M30 (NGC 7099)

Globular cluster in Capricorn
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Patagonian Sunrise

Torres del Paine National Park, Chile: "Taken just before sunrise in front of Hotel Rio Serrano. This unforgettable moment lasted for only 5 minutes," writes photographer Chaluntorn Preeyasombat.
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Happy Spring!

Two daffodils blooming in my yard this afternoon.
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Village in rural Japan

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At one of my local parks

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A Warm and Sunny Day

Kyu-Shiba-Rikyu Garden,Tokyo,Japan
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Walking on the street (digital art)

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Hug

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"Stellar Riches" Troy Casswell: Central West Astronomical Society's astrophotography competition winner 2015

"This is a stunning rendition of the brightest part of the Milky Way. It reveals vast star clouds of Sagittarius, and the wispy dust and elusive nebulae and bright stars in Scorpius and Ophiuchus. It is a four-panel, 20-degree wide, true-colour mosaic made from 64 separate exposures with an off-the-shelf (but modified) digital camera, and much care and patience. Riches indeed!"
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Life

Syrian refugee girl Amna Zughayar, 9, from Deir el-Zour, Syria, poses for a picture at an informal tented settlement near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan. About half of the 4.8 million Syrians who fled their homeland are children, and some of the most vulnerable live in dozens of makeshift tent camps. Jordan has taken in close to 640,000 refugees. Children in these camps near the northern city of Mafraq say they miss their old lives in Syria, especially going to school.
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Sunrise in the snowy woods

Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona, Campigna National Park - Italy. Photo by Roberto Melotti.
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Miss NY State points out the signs of NYC to three other Miss Universe hopefuls [692x928][1960]

Atop the Hotel Commodore, enjoying the view are (L-R) Brigitta Gårdman (Miss Sweden), Ingrun Moeckel (Miss Germany), and Marilyn Escobar (Miss Morocco).
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Proper IT training is important

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Mount Rainier under the Moonlight

By Bryan Buchanan
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