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This amazing video was created using the audio of our 10 Questions interview with astrophysicist Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson as he talks about what he considers the universe’s most incredible fact. (That’s our Gilbert Cruz interviewing him.)
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Link reblogged from Vanity Fair
According to the California Tomato Growers Association, the winter of 2011–2012 was “unusually dry”. It’s interesting—and provocative, no?—that Nick’s interest in agriculture would coincide with unfriendly atmospheric conditions. A subtle portrait of the Sisyphean attempt to escape one’s own fate,…
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Photo reblogged from Texts from Hillary
A submission from Secretary Hillary Clinton.
Original image by Diana Walker for Time.
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Link reblogged from UN Pulse from U.N. Dag Hammarskjöld Library
The United Nations Environment Programme(UNEP) has published a report titled Women at the frontline of climate change - Gender risks and hopes. This report states that women are often in the frontline in respect to the impacts of a changing climate. Globally the world is seeing…
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Video reblogged from The Vimeo Blog
A Walk in the Park - Tom Wallisch by Jiberish
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Video reblogged from The Vimeo Blog
Dreaming It{aly} by Matthew Brown (Matty Brown)
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Photoset reblogged from Red Scharlach Points At Interesting Things
Otters Who Look Like Benedict Cumberbatch: A Visual Examination.
All otters are from The Daily Otter, for all your ottery Tumblr needs! -
Quote reblogged from CNNMoney Tech Tumblr
Created by Ben Howdle, Movies as Code is exactly what you think it is: Popular movies rewritten in a programming / markup language. Somehow, the plot of a multi-million dollar motion picture can actually be more enticing when written sarcastically as a CSS pun (Read: Titanic). Check out Die Hard:
$characters[‘good’] = ’John McClane’;
$characters[‘bad’] = ’Hans Gruber’;$situation = ’Hostage situation’;
if($situation == ”Hostage situation”){
echo ”Winner = “ . $characters[‘good’];
echo ”Loser = “ . $characters[‘bad’];
}
else {
$didNotFallOfARoof = $characters[‘bad’];
}?>
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Photo reblogged from Home No. 5
I wrote down a bunch of things Jonathan Franzen said at his reading at Tulane last night. Here is part of his response to a question about social networking:
“It’s a free country. People can do whatever they want within the law, and even some things not within the law…I personally was on Facebook for two weeks as part of a piece of journalism I was writing — it seemed sort of dumb to me. Twitter is unspeakably irritating. Twitter stands for everything I oppose…it’s hard to cite facts or create an argument in 140 characters…it’s like if Kafka had decided to make a video semaphoring The Metamorphosis. Or it’s like writing a novel without the letter ‘P’…It’s the ultimate irresponsible medium.
People I care about are readers…particularly serious readers and writers, these are my people. And we do not like to yak about ourselves.”
This sort of infuriated me. Not that he’s incorrect about how much social networking can suck your time, because it can, but because he doesn’t understand that a lot of writers have to use the medium as a promotional device as well as a way to build networks. He doesn’t have to do anything! He has a publicist who probably has dreams about him every night, whether he has a book coming or not. He is free to write and just be himself, while the rest of us are struggling to be heard and recognized. He will never understand how hard it is to get ahead as a writer, never again in his life. I’m not suggesting he’s old-fashioned. I’m suggesting he has lost perspective.Read the complete post here.
