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An Expanding Universe of Space Apps

While becoming an astronaut is out of reach for most of us, there are plenty of apps that can take your mind on a journey to the final frontier.

Space apps ... the final frontier.

Venice is on the to-do list for 2017! 

From an unpublished story on Venice in the wintertime, moored gondolas in the Grand Canal in front of a flooded Piazza San Marco with Santa Maria della Salute Church in the background - 1952. (Dmitri Kessel—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #1950s #Italy #Venice

I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.

Michael Jordan (via beinchargeofyourlife)

The sunset as incredibly beautiful. It glowed through the spindly winter branches. They were reaching for the vivid sky, same as I. There is something captivating about forest sunsets, trapped beneath the trees. You can’t see the full splendor, but you see enough to know it’s there. I ran through the forest to get a clearer view, but it wasn’t until we topped the mountain that the real artistry unfolded. It was certainly a sight to behold.

Physicists have finally figured out why these massive ice discs start spinning on their own

New physics from a 100-year-old mystery.

New physics doesn’t always come from the recesses of space or the bowels of the Large Hadron Collider. Sometimes, you just need some cameras, a nickel bead, a magnet, and Petri dish popsicles.

Every once in a while, someone notices a big disc of ice eerily spinning in a river. These discs can be anywhere from 1 to 200 metres across, and almost everything about them has mystified physicists and environmental scientists for over a century. While it’s thought that this rare natural phenomenon is likely was caused by cold, dense air coming in contact with an eddy in a river, no one’s been able to definitively explain why these giant discs continue to rotate as they melt. Until now.

The most common explanation for the spinning ice discs says that as the discs float along in a river, they’re spun around by eddies - little spinning currents that form when water flows over rocks or into an enclosed space. And while this is this is probably part of what’s happening, it can’t be the whole story.

Bill Fernandez and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs became friends in seventh grade. About 10 years later, 22-year-old Fernandez became Apple’s first employee, and that taught him a few key lessons about making it in the entrepreneurial world. Among the most important? “To succeed early on you have to be a self-starter. You have to be self-empowered,” he says. “You have to have a sense that, ‘I can do whatever needs to be done even if it’s never been done before.’”

Immersive Insights: IBM’s AR Data Visualization Tool at SXSW – Medium

The IBM is making space at SXSW from March 10–14 showcased dozens of projects in AI, robotics, VR, AR, and other emerging technology fields. My team and I had the fortunate opportunity to demo our AR project, Immersive Insights.

Immersive Insights aims to be a tool that provides data scientists with insights to large-scale data through a spatial visualization experience. While the demo is still in an early stage, we have real-time data streaming to the headset and displayed in 3D, fully manipulable and scalable. It is also our way to begin exploring, creating and refining the next generation of enterprise applications for data analysis.

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