The Big Picture: NASA's 3.2-gigapixel global selfie

"Where are you on Earth Right Now?" That's the question NASA posed the public on Earth Day recently. The twist? NASA wanted you to answer, not with words, but with a selfie. 36,422 of you replied with images that were then stitched together to form the mosaic you see above. To fully enjoy the image, there's an interactive 3.2-gigapixel version that lets you get up close and personal with all the submissions (or, if you participated, try to find yourself). 0 Comments Share

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The words hashtag, steampunk and selfie are now tired enough to go in the dictionary

There's something in the water over on lexicography boulevard. Just a day after Collins asked Twitter users to vote on a new word, Merriam-Webster has revealed which internet-born terms it now considers official. The 150 strong list includes crowdfunding, selfie and hashtag, all the way through to more cultural ones like catfish, tweep and steampunk. Just think, you can use all six of those words in a term paper and your teacher can't be mad at you, because, duh, they're all in the dictionary.

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Source: Merriam-Webster

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