I run because

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Make it count

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Underwater Ink Photographs by Alberto Seveso

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Awesome. :)

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Homeless mom prepares her daughter for school

CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year 2011 award winners. Several dozen additional entrants are posted in a gallery at the Telegraph.

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"Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and, once gone, can never be retrieved. Do not be like the deceived fools who are joyous because each day their wealth increases while their life shortens. What good is an increase in wealth when life grows ever shorter? Therefore be joyous only for an increase in knowledge or in good works, for they are your two companions who will accompany you in your grave when your family, weatlh, children and friends stay behind."

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excellent

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 The Unimpressed Astronaut Meme (more of them here)

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"When Allah granted Prophet Yusuf physical beauty it caused him to be locked up in prison. But when Allah granted him knowledge (interpreting the dream of the King), it not only took him out of prison but elevated his rank in society; clearly showing us the virtue of knowledge and that physical beauty does not mean anything."

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Teens Put Lego Man in ‘Space’ (Actually Stratosphere)

That’s one giant leap for Lego. Two Canadian highschoolers have wowed the Web with their video of a Lego toy taking a balloon ride to near-space.

The video, made by Toronto 17-year-olds Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, shows a tiny Lego man holding a Canadian flag with the blue curve of the Earth far below and the black of space above. It is the latest example of do-it-yourself near-space photography by an amateur balloon launching team.

The teens used a weather balloon to carry the Lego minifigure and set of cameras, one with a fish-eye lens, into to the stratosphere, ultimately reaching a height of nearly 80,000 feet (24,384 meters) before the balloon burst, according to the Toronto Star . Once the balloon popped, the Lego man and its attached cameras fell back to Earth under a homemade parachute.

Pictures that they have taken:

Photo Credit: Lego Man In Space, Mission Success Album

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January Aurora Over Norway

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