Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder Talk With Writer Lynell George About The Making Of Their New Album, GET ON BOARD:

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.

LAUNCH DAY!! 🚀

LIVE ON NASA TV FROM 17:15 BST

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!

Tigran Hamasyan performed an NPR Tiny Desk (Home) Concert that includes solo piano takes on “Our Film,” from his new album, The Call Within, which NPR Music’s Suraya Mohamed calls his “most enterprising release,” and two earlier tunes. Hamasyan performs for the virtual EFG London Jazz Festival this Saturday.

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9-hAJ8IrmU)

The making of the Mainframe Kid.

Connor Krukosky, aka The Mainframe Kid, got his first IBM computer when he was just 18 months old. At age 18, he bought, disassembled and rebuilt a 13-year-old, 1,500-pound IBM z890 mainframe computer. Now, he works at IBM.

Hear his story->

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