Category: Whatever
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Most Exquisitely Weird Spiders | Wired Science
Spiders are among the craftiest and most beautiful of arthropods, entirely undeserving of their maligned reputation. Some signal their presence with massive horns or brilliant colors, others attempt to blend into the scenery. Many spin intricate traps of sticky silk, but some chase their prey — or ambush it, bursting…
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Amazing 19th-Century Illustrations of ‘The Divine Comedy’ – Flavorwire
Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy holds an important place in the pantheon of world literature. Countless artists have been inspired by Dante’s allegorical, visionary work, which describes the Italian poet’s journey through hell, purgatory, and heaven. Perhaps the best-known artist to adapt Dante’s unearthly tale was Gustave Doré, whose gorgeous…
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Autobiografia: Recluse of History | Saffronart Blog
New York: The exhibition, Autobiografia: Recluse of History, is an intriguing group show of artists from different eras. Simplistic and powerful, it stimulates one’s historical chord through classic drawings of soldiers during World War I, with titles such as ‘le commencement de la peur’ / ‘the beginning of fear’ made by…
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▶ Cal Smith | Lord Knows I’m Drinkin’
Cal Smith on the Porter Wagner Show in 1973. I love how the audience claps when he sings, “The Lord Knows I’m Drinkin’”… Amen. Related articles Three Days of Drinkin’ (sj-powers.com) Part 1: Songs You Should Hear (peacelovegreatcountrymusic.com)
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Daodejing 10
#10* Body and soul integrated as one. Inseparable? Concentrate Qì [1] for suppleness. Baby-like? Wash and cleanse the profound mirror. [2] Never blemish? Love the people and govern a country. Do doing-without-doing (wěi-wú-wěi)? The door of heaven Opens and closes. Yielding? [3] Brilliantly perceive The four directions. Without ignorance? [Give birth to it and breed…
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Restore Honor and Pardon Edward Snowden | The Nation
…Julian Assange, no stranger to unrequited integrity, nailed it. “Today, the president of the United States validated Edward Snowden’s role as a whistleblower by announcing plans to reform America’s global surveillance program,” the WikiLeaks founder said in a statement posted Saturday, the day after Obama’s remarks. While boasting, “I called…
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Generation X gets really old: How do slackers have a midlife crisis? | Salon.com
…There is a reason, says historian and generational expert Neil Howe, why members of Generation X have been cast as perpetual adolescents. Their parents – “the Silent Generation” – originated the stereotypical midlife breakdown, and they came of age, and fell apart, in a very different world. Generally stable and…
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Five hundred new fairytales discovered in Germany | Books | theguardian.com
A whole new world of magic animals, brave young princes and evil witches has come to light with the discovery of 500 new fairytales, which were locked away in an archive in Regensburg, Germany for over 150 years. The tales are part of a collection of myths, legends and fairytales,…
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And When You Lose Control: Drawing by Davit Yukhanyan
Faith is Torment | the Art and Design Blog puts up a gallery of great interest: A drawing of a goat made of hundreds of smaller drawings. Click the jump to examine sections of the drawing and see what parts make up the whole. via Faith is Torment | Art and…
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Capricious God Violently Shakes Ant Farm Day After Bestowing Orange Slices Upon Colony | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
APPLETON, WI—Less than 24 hours after their god bestowed two delicious orange slices upon them, local ants reported the capricious deity had picked up the entire ant farm in which they live and shaken it violently, leaving many to wonder what they had done to incur the all-powerful being’s deadly…
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Things I’ll never be again | Zaphnath-Paaneah
Some most excellent poetry from my beloved brother on the Way, Joseph Paul Carr. This is an exert; read the whole poem on his blog, just follow the link. Then spend some time looking around at his other works. …I bet you’ve got an answer for everything, me too, it’s…
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Io, a Changing Moon
Like the downtown area of your favorite city and any self-respecting web site … Io‘s surface is constantly under construction. This moon of Jupiter holds the distinction of being the Solar System’s most volcanically active body — its bizarre looking surface continuously formed and reformed by lava flows. Generated using…
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Contre temps | Vimeo
My good sister, Angela, posted this on her FB wall today. Appears that it is a student animation from France. Beautiful! Here is our graduation movie Contre temps, directed at Supinfocom Arles in 2012. We hope you will enjoy it! If you do, feel free to vote for us here:…
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![Watch These Robotic Plant Roots Grow Like The Real Thing [Video] | Popular Science](https://callmemaggie.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/robotroots.jpg?w=525)
Watch These Robotic Plant Roots Grow Like The Real Thing [Video] | Popular Science
This robot is putting down roots. Recently at the Living Machines conference in London, researchers from the Italian Institute of Technology debuted a system of robotic roots that can grow and turn in response to stimuli in their environment, just like their live counterparts. Called the Plantoid project, the prototype…
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Listening to the rain
Originally posted on Zen Flash: Because the mind is free – Listening to the rain Dripping from the leaves, The drops become One with me. ~ Dogen ~ Poetry Gardens
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These are words that go together well – confused of calcutta
Wonderful book review that becomes a thoughtful piece on translation. Translators do a very hard job, and are often underappreciated. We take them for granted. Yet they perform a very important function, expressing something from one language into another, switching contexts skilfully. If I stay with the original theme of…
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