@manishkumarmishra: How Does All This Work Benefit Us Back Here On Earth?

Homeland Security will let computers predict who might be a terrorist on your plane — just don’t ask how it works.

Illustration: Soohee Cho/The Intercept, Getty Images

Two Brazilian firms owned by a top donor to President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are significantly responsible for the ongoing destruction of the Amazon rainforest, carnage that has developed into raging fires that have captivated global attention. Read more here. 

Illustration: Soohee Cho/The Intercept

Today is National Penguin Day! 

An Adelie penguin hangs out with the 452nd Air Mobility Wing’s (AMW) Aerial Ground Squadron (AGS) from March Air Reserve Base, California, at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, during Operation DEEP FREEZE, 2/12/2001

Series: Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files, 1982 - 2007

Record Group 330: Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1921 - 2008

Image description: Several people in cold-weather gear look at a solitary penguin, who is holding one wing up, seemingly pointing at another person walking by. In the background are what look like fuel tanks. 

Image description: Same photo, but this one is zoomed in to just show the penguin pointing at the person walking by.

The Old Moon in the Young Moon s Arms via NASA https://ift.tt/2qEORID

Recently, Flickr was invited to a special two-day photowalk with several other social media influencers through parts of the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans East district in Louisiana, United States. In this blog, Flickr employee Wilson Lam shares his unforgettable experience at the event through a collection of photos from his trip!