today’s birthday: Johannes Kepler (1571)

Johannes Kepler (1571)

Described by famed astronomer Carl Sagan as “the first astrophysicist and the last scientific astrologer,” Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer. A key figure in the scientific revolution, Kepler derived three famous laws of planetary motion, which, among other things, established that the planets travel around the Sun in elliptical rather than circular orbits. When Kepler was six, his mother, who was later tried for witchcraft, took him to see what phenomenon? More… Discuss

WHAT’S UP: VIRAL ON YOUTUBE FIRST KISS POSTED MARCH 10, 2014 – 23,142,752

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Published on Mar 10, 2014

We asked twenty strangers to kiss for the first time….

Film presented by WREN
http://wrenstudio.com/
Music by Soko “We Might be Dead Tomorrow”
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James Harrington, Director of the Ugandan Water Project

James Harrington, Director of the Ugandan Water Project, challenges us to look at the statistics surrounding the world water crisis from a new perspective. Benjamin, a young boy from Kayunga District, shares his personal toil fetching water and the relief of the new Rainwater Collection Tank that the Ugandan Water Project installed at his school.

Join this effort to transform communities in Uganda, go to:
http://ugandanwaterproject.com

This clip is an excerpt from the short film, Uganda23
http://Uganda23.com