Throughout history, poets have used sunflowers as a beautiful depiction of the sun. You can keep one in your pocket, or wear it in your hair, it always enhances a person’s beauty. But whenever I look at sunflowers, no matter how pretty they seem, I always remember the Helen Keller quote, “Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see the shadow. It’s what sunflowers do.” So no matter how beautiful a person seems, one should always look past the beauty and see if they are beautiful on the inside. Sadly, not many are. They seem nice, but all they’re trying to do is divert attention from their dark shadows.

However, I love spending my summer afternoons surrounded by nature (plants, flowers and landscapes). This sunflower stands as tall as the summer sun

This is what Stephen William Hawking looked like, before he developed amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)

Stephen Hawking is a renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist, whose scientific books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity.

Instead of taking picture of the fireworks (very difficult to do if you don’t have a tripod), this independence day, I decided to shoot a video so you can feel the spirit and liveliness of the Fireworks. These Firewroks were in Evanston, IL. The best part was how civil the crowd was.

Try watching it in High quality by changing 360p to 720p in the player controls

First image of the Earth from the surface of another planet beyond the moon. The picture was taken by the Spirit rover in 2004

Click the image to see a high-res version of this photo.

If you own a DSLR camera and are fairly new to vast number of options available in different camera modes, this cheat sheet will come in handy when working in manual mode of your camera. The infographic was developed by Miguel Yatco, a self-taught photographer based in Manila, Philippines.

The history of alphabets goes back 4000 years. All moderns alphabets are descendents of alphabets and characters invented in ancient times, roughly 4000 years ago.

Evolution of Greek and Latin alphabets. Animated sequence

 

Evolution of Middle Eastern alphabets such as Arabic and Hebrew, among others

Had a wonderful time at the Father’s day BBQ. The theme of course was Pakistani food, but we cooked it in an authentic style (well as close as possible)

Seekh kababs (beef and tikka chicken)

 

Bhutta also known as Corn

 

Putting tarrkaa on naan

 

All the nice aunties making naan

 

Shami Kababs

 

naan in tandoor

Spacewalking astronauts face a lot of danger, including radioactivity, extreme temperatures and pressure to name a few. And that’s where the spacesuits come in to help the astronauts in a variety of ways. A modern spacesuit costs between 13 to 16 million US dollars. Below is a XRAY version of the spacesuit dissecting and showing in details various parts and components.

Ants are one of the most smartest and fascinating creatures on this planet and for the first time, scientists from the California Academy of Sciences are embarking on a project to take highly detailed digital images of every one of approximately 12,000 ant species known to science.