“A father and son work collaboratively to understand each other in drawings and photographs thru the filter of the Autistic spectrum.” View photos online. Check out the book.
Mortal Rent
Jesus Jara’s short film ►Mortal Rent claims, I suspect rightly, to be the first Spanish film made entirely using the (failed 1987 toy turned contemporary cult/hipster tool) Fischer-Price PXL-2000 camera.
from A Short History of Nearly Everything
“As the physicist Paul Davies puts it, ‘If everything needs everything else, how did the communities of molecules ever arise in the first place?’ It is rather as if all the ingredients in your kitchen somehow got together and baked themselves into a cake—but a cake that could moreover divide when necessary to produce more cakes. It is little wonder that we call it the miracle of life. It is also little wonder that we have barely begun to understand it.”
—Bill Bryson
—from A Short History of Nearly Everything
retund
retund. verb. To weaken or diminish. To repress, repel or refute. To drive back. From classical Latin retundere (to dull, blunt, repress, quell), from post-classical Latin (to refute).
Links: October 23, 2016
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“This is one day’s observations from Himawari-8, a Japanese weather satellite, animated in a loop. It shows the western Pacific, Australia, and parts of Asia, Antarctica, and Alaska as they looked on one day in mid-2015. It covers 24 hours in 12 seconds—a time lapse factor of 7,200×.” → Glittering Blue + A New and Stunning Way to See the Whole Earth
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Oh, Merdle! → What the Deuce: The Curse Words of Charles Dickens.
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Squick!, which leads me to the Wisdom of Repugnance, coined in 1977 in an article on cloning by Robert Klass, which is broken down clearly and logically by Don Berkich.
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A powerful, lavishly illustrated story → Photographer Documenting the Homeless Discovers Her Own Father Among Them
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On Not Reading shows that even a Dean at Yale like Amy Hungerford can be, as Shakespeare coined it, a lack-brain. Tom LeClair gives her proudly ignorant manifesto the thrashing it deserves.
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The Fascinating Story Behind Why So Many Nail Technicians Are Vietnamese (hint: it involves Tippi Hedren and it was no accident).
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Literary award offers $100,000 for books which have yet to be written
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The Guide to Digitized Natural History Collections should keep your browser busy for a while.
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A “radical burger joint” in Watts makes for an intriguing story of culture, food and conflict. → The People’s Cheeseburger
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Today from 6:02 a.m. to 6:02 p.m. it is Mole Day, commemorating ► Avogadro’s Number (6.02 x 10^23 — get it?), a basic unit of measurement in chemistry. If your chemistry skills are rusty, it’s basically this: one mole of any substance contains Avogadro’s Number of molecules or atoms of that substance. I can’t tell you how many times this tidbit has come in handy in my life. Also, today is the birthday of myself and, more importantly (literally and figuratively), my Grandma Lori…happy birthday, us!
Stutterer
Stutterer, an Oscar-winning short film by Benjamin Cleary, is well worth 13 minutes of your time. The film is described in the New Yorker:
“…a thirteen-minute movie about a young London typographer named Greenwood. Greenwood stutters, to the extent that verbal conversation is difficult. When he tries to resolve an issue with a service representative over the phone, he can’t get the words out; the operator, gruff and impatient, hangs up. When a woman approaches Greenwood on the street, he uses sign language to avoid talking. But in his thoughts, which we hear, he does not stutter. And when he chats online with a woman named Ellie he can express himself freely, and is casual, charming, and content. When Ellie writes that she’s coming to London, he panics. How he navigates her visit provides the film’s narrative and emotional suspense.”
Danger! Do Not Touch!
This sign is just one of many found browsing the delightful Ask MetaFilter thread: “Looking for emphatic warnings against really bad ideas”.
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