March 10th - Quasi The Great

We all have those days where we are bored out of our minds and turn to social media to entertain us. Mainly Facebook for people like myself. I follow various pages in hopes of finding something entertaining to share with me friends. But what I love to see on my Facebook feed are cute animals big and small. Cats and dogs. Seals and polar bears. You name it, I think it's adorable. I am that one friend who will tag a friend to a video of a puppy sleeping.

But what I really love are the Facebook pages of specific pets or animals. Like Lil Bub, Grumpy Cat, and especially Quasi The Great.

Quasi the Great is a German Shepherd Dog called Quasimodo who is living with Short Spine Syndrome. "He is one of only 14 known dogs in the world with this condition."

I love how social media plays a big part in sharing the life of an animal that is suffering from some sort of condition or is recovering from a difficult life. It shows people their progress in recovery allowing us to dote them more. In many cases having them on social media allows for countless views to donate money for special treatment or surgery. It is beautiful cause. Look at Quasi's adorable face!

  

March 8th - Google Cardboard

Just simply made of cardboard, glass and velcro, Google Cardboard is a new way to experience Virtual Reality in an affordable way. You just download the free Google Cardboard app (or many others out there) place your phone in the device and get ready to experience a whole new world.

With the official Google Cardboard app one can view historic artifacts, play with a kaleidoscope, and more importantly experience 360-degree tours of various locations around the world (which is done in all the Google Cardboard compatible apps). It is perfect for individuals that cannot travel and for the classrooms.

On the topic of school, this would be a great opportunities for schools to promote themselves. Like with virtual tours of the campus and residential halls. This would be ideal, for students who do not have the chance to travel to their potential schools. Like for myself, before I attended my current university I was too far to travel to visit the school, so having something like Google Cardboard would have been ideal. 

March 3rd - #YearInSpace

This week my Twitter has been filled with everything related to Space. Why? Because Astronaut Scott Kelly has arrived back to Earth after spending 340 days in Space doing countless missions, including gathering vital information for the Journey to Mars, which including "research into how the human body adjusts to weightlessness, isolation, radiation and the stress of long-duration spaceflight."In addition to a Twin Study with his identical twin brother and former NASA astronaut, Mark Kelly.

 

Along with those studies, the first plants were grown in Space (Which was a part of the Journey to Mars study). 

But with the various (very important) studies, Astronaut Kelly took amazing, breathtaking photographs of the life in the International Space Station. Check them many more of them on his Twitter and Facebook profiles. They are epic. #YearInSpace

Welcome home, Astronaut Scott Kelly.