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  • Sunflowers: See a dozen great photos | Earth | EarthSky

    All of these photos came from EarthSky Facebook friends. We asked you to post your sunflowers pics, and wow! Here are a dozen of them – sunflowers from all around the world. via Sunflowers: See a dozen great photos | Earth | EarthSky. Related articles A New Mystery Seed… The…

  • Francis Ford Coppola Interview |Esquire

    Apocalypse Now Redux and Godfather I & II are among my favorite films… could not resist this piece over at Esquire magazine. A pleasure to read as Stephen Garrett allows Mr. Coppola to just ramble from question to answer to question. Almost a stream of consciousness thing. Really nice. I was…

  • Human Nature May Not Be So Warlike After All | Wired Science

    Given the long, awful history of violence between groups of people, it’s easy to think that humans are predisposed to war. But a new study of violence in modern hunter-gatherer societies, which may hold clues to prehistoric human life, suggests that warlike behavior is a relatively recent phenomenon. Sure, humans…

  • America in ruins | Art and design | guardian.co.uk

    Photographers Daniel Barter and Daniel Marbaix toured the United States to capture crumbling buildings that were once schools, prisons and asylums. Their images range from the majestic to the eerie, and show worlds once full of life, now long forgotten. Take a look inside these lost palaces • States of…

  • 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 a nearly suicidal orbit that would carry it to within…

  • 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 kidnapped her, beaten her, and strangled her with a telephone…

  • 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

  • 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 and the knowledge of what each variation means, on average.…

  • Genetics: Scientifically Sanctioned Palm Reading | Thought Catalog

    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 are of course proponents of body knowledge but those are…

  • Britain Legalizes Gay Marriage | Huffington Post

    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 marriage in England and Wales cleared Parliament. The queen’s approval…

  • 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 U.S. households; today that figure is roughly 28 percent. As…

  • 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 the ceiling so that is floats in the air, L/B:…

  • How does he do it?

    Originally posted on Flowers and More: Flowers and More View original post

  • 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, he will work to make Pacific Rim a movie that makes you…

  • Pseudo-Modernism

    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 culture as a spectacle before which the individual sat powerless,…

  • Terriers: A Crime Show That’s Not About Dogs

    Originally posted on ColorTheBooks Blog: No one really watched Terriers, created by Ted Griffin in 2010, and I have no idea why. I recently watched it not knowing what to expect from the TV show, of course the name didn’t help to clarify. It is one of the best crime…

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  • Intricacies of nature

    Originally posted on NikonGraham: After some research I have found that this is called a Granadilla flower. No two flowers are alike; they come in all colors, shapes, sizes, and with a variety of patterns!