Keith “Maggie” Brown
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Cosmic gas cloud fights supermassive black hole | Science | guardian.co.uk
Supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy has a gas cloud in its gravitational clutches – but the gas cloud isn’t giving up without a fight… The gas cloud was discovered in 2011 and shown to be on… Continue reading
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A Raised Hand | the New Yorker
“Dorothy Giunta-Cotter knew that someday her husband, William, would kill her. They met in 1982, when he was twenty and she was fifteen: a girl with brown eyes and cascading dark hair. Over the course of twenty years, he had… Continue reading
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Benedict Cumberbatch IS Julian Assange:
Benedict Cumberbatch IS Julian Assange: Preview of Major WikiLeaks Movie | The Nation http://ow.ly/n5J3O http://ow.ly/i/2DWc1 Continue reading
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Jesus of Siberia | Vice
Deep in Siberia’s Taiga forest is Vissarion, a cult leader who looks like Jesus and claims to be the voice of God. He’s known as “the Teacher” to his 4,000 followers, who initially seem surprisingly normal. Over time, however, their… Continue reading
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3D visual forensic facial reconstruction of a Neanderthal face in front of your eyes
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions One of the coolest visualization techniques to come along in recent years is the careful forensic reconstruction of likely facial features of deceased people from their bony remains, based on subtleties in bone structure… Continue reading
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Photos of New York City Inside the Grand Canyon Contrast Emptiness and Density
At the end of 2012, Swiss photographer Gus Pedro took a trip to the United States, and was met with a paradox. When he visited New York City, he found density in all its glory. But when he followed that… Continue reading
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Genetics: Scientifically Sanctioned Palm Reading | Thought Catalog
Genes are an odd, potent figure. They’re primal yet with an intelligence that exceeds us, as if divine or advanced super alien. The body, we imagine, is stupid, always needing to be told what to do by our “selves” (there… Continue reading
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Britain Legalizes Gay Marriage | Huffington Post
Britain has legalized gay marriage after Queen Elizabeth II gave her royal stamp of approval. House of Commons Speaker John Bercow told lawmakers that the royal assent had been given Wednesday – the day after the bill to legalize same-sex… Continue reading
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Article: The Rise of People Living Alone Has Led to More Sustainable Cities
Whatever you want to call people living alone — some go with solos, others singletons — the fact is there’s a lot more of them than there used to be. In 1950, solos accounted for about 9 percent of all… Continue reading
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Beautiful Steps
Originally posted on sigrun hodne studio: Beautiful steps #4, by the artist duo L/B, belongs to a series featuring different sets of stairs in unusual locations and positions. In Beautiful steps #4 a wide spiral stair case is suspended from… Continue reading
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How to Spot Propaganda
propaganda (n.) 1718, “committee of cardinals in charge of Catholic missionary work,” short for Congregatio de Propaganda Fide “congregation for propagating the faith,” a committee of cardinals established 1622 by Gregory XV to supervise foreign missions. The word is properly… Continue reading
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Irrationality: Factual Fictions
irrational (adj.) late 15c., “not endowed with reason” (of beats, etc.); earlier (of quantities) “inexpressible in ordinary numbers” (late 14c.); from Latin irrationalis “without reason,” from assimilated form of in- “not, opposite of” (see in- (1)) + rationalis “reason” (see rational). Meaning “illogical, absurd” is attested from 1640s. via etymonline.com… Continue reading
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Painters Painting – New York Art Scene (1940-1970)
Probably THE definitive documentary about the history of New York City’s art scene, from the beginning of World War II to the height of the Vietnam War era. Emile de Antonio was a Marxist filmmaker who mostly directed political documentaries… Continue reading
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How does he do it?
Originally posted on Flowers and More: Flowers and More View original post Continue reading
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Super-Sizing Movie Monsters
Originally posted on The Dish: http://youtu.be/x0G6mXiA33Y Wesley Morris was impressed by Pacific Rim‘s scale: Del Toro is a dreamer. He’s a visionary. If you give him a pile of money to make enormous robots fight enormous monsters at the end of civilization,… Continue reading
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Pseudo-Modernism
An interesting entry from Alan Kirby at the British magazine Philosophy Now. Very well worth the read, and I hope it will spawn a few thoughts from me on the Society of Control. Let’s see what happens. …Postmodernism conceived of contemporary… Continue reading
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