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Amazing map of the world with each country depicted in its national currency. More striking currency art here.
Posted on October 16, 2012 via Explore with 1,340 notes
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Happy Holidays!
Love,
Jenn
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Sounds and silence: The silence comes between the attempts to peel the apple whole. There is a slight scuffing of the chair on the floor, crispness of the apple to a metallic touch, muffled sounds of starched apron folds. The chair creaks from having been stored next to the boiler in the basement, suffering effects of 15 years of dry heat.
On the Visual History of Silence – a beautiful meditation on how a set of vintage photos of housework postures actually offer “a map of the silences encountered in the daily cleaning of the house.”
Posted on September 13, 2012 via Explore with 122 notes
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I don’t know why we long so for permanence, why the fleeting nature of things so disturbs. With futility, we cling to the old wallet long after it has fallen apart. We visit and revisit the old neighborhood where we grew up, searching for the remembered grove of trees and the little fence. We clutch our old photographs. In our churches and synagogues and mosques, we pray to the everlasting and eternal. Yet, in every nook and cranny, nature screams at the top of her lungs that nothing lasts, that it is all passing away. All that we see around us, including our own bodies, is shifting and evaporating and one day will be gone. Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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In the end, you cannot defeat the odds. You might beat the house for a while, but the universe has an infinite supply of time and can outlast any player.
Change Is the Only Constant – a beautiful meditation on impermanence from Alan Lightman.
Complement with Hitchens on mortality.
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Posted on September 11, 2012 via Explore with 287 notes
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A cry is a sustained, voiced utterance, usually of around one second or more (reports vary), the duration of an outward breath. Think of a baby’s ‘waaa.’ … Cries repeat at intervals of about one second, roughly the duration of one respiratory cycle … A laugh, in contrast, is a chopped (not sustained), usually voiced exhalation, as in ‘ha-ha-ha,’ in which each syllable (‘ha’) lasts about 1/15 second and repeats every 1/5 second.
Why We Cry – the science of sobbing and emotional tearing(via explore-blog)
Posted on September 9, 2012 via Explore with 94 notes
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Gay veteran talks to Mitt Romney about marriage equality – priceless.
Posted on September 9, 2012 via Explore with 253 notes
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If you need a moment of awe for the magical world we call home, look no further than Paul Bourke’s “found” Google Earth fractals.
Then read on about Benoît Mandelbrot, father of fractals.
Posted on September 9, 2012 via Explore with 208 notes
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Nature took tens of millions of years to make petroleum, but we’ve used up the best of it in less than 200.
Fantastic motion graphics animation on the truth about peak oil and fracking.
Posted on September 2, 2012 via Explore with 56 notes
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Arthur C. Clarke, quoted in The Universe in a Nutshell, in which Michio Kaku explains the physics of everything.
Posted on September 2, 2012 via Explore with 69 notes
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Kids don’t stop asking questions because they lose interest. It’s the other way around — they lose interest because they stop asking questions.
For Maria Montessori’s birthday today, Superwoman Was Already Here – an animated homage to the iconic educator’s philosophy.Yikes, what if it’s true!
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Posted on September 2, 2012 via Explore with 630 notes
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