@iAnonPatriot Given that it costs $36k/child, which would be about $70k in earnings before taxes, this essentially amounts to a $140k bonus for every city employee with two kids.
Ori graduated from Therapy Dog school last night!
We can't wait to volunteer together.
Visiting the sick is a big mitzvah in Judaism.
He's ready to get to work spreading joy. 🐶💞🏥
An astronaut on the International Space Station took this photograph during a rare clear day over Ireland and Great Britain. The wide view captures the contrasting colors of various land cover types present across the two islands
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Look at those mountains. This is what landing on a comet looks like. The photo comes from the first part of @ESA_Rosetta descent on comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko, taken from a distance of 16 km with OSIRIS NAC, at 01:20 UT, exactly 4 years ago #Todayow.ly/IKVY304HXcE
The oldest known hominid footprints discovered outside of Africa are on a beach at Happisburgh in Norfolk, England. They are estimated to be 800,000 years old buff.ly/2G2XR5l
Roundhay Garden Scene is an 1888 short silent actuality film recorded by French inventor Louis Le Prince. It is believed to be the oldest surviving film in existence bit.ly/2hee9J1
Oldest house in France. It's found in Aveyron, built in 13th century and belonged to a Jeanne.
Ground floor is a little smaller than upstairs because in those times you only paid taxes on occupied land, so everyone built like this.
#archaeohistories
I took this shot flying over Manhattan the other night. The Hudson and East Rivers fight and left, Cental Park bottom right, and the bright blob middle right is Times Square. It’s rare to get this clear a view …
Many of you are familiar with the famous photo of the astronaut (Bruce McCandless II) floating alone above the Earth, which just happened to be taken 38 years ago today. Bruce took pictures too, and this was his view of the space shuttle Challenger while he was 98m (or so) away.
An explosion of zinc fireworks occurs when a human egg is activated by a sperm enzyme, and the size of these “sparks” is a direct measure of the quality of the egg and its ability to develop into an embryo. In other words, life begins with a flash of light ow.ly/qO4130nsBqc
For some reason, I’m struck by the feeling of immediacy in this 1906 autochrome colour image of a village woman, maybe almost hearing the soft crunch of her boots on the damp pebbled path
Have you ever considered how fast you are really moving when you relax in your favorite armchair and it seems you are not moving at all? This animated chart by @physicsJ shows the relative cosmic velocities. Follow his profile for more. YoutTube channel: buff.ly/2Og8c03