We emerge from laws that, as far as we can tell, are timeless, and yet we exist for the briefest moment of time. We are guided by laws that operate without concern for destination, and yet we constantly ask ourselves where we are headed. We are shaped by laws that seem not to require an underlying rationale, and yet we persistently seek meaning and purpose.
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Art by Margaret C. Cook from a rare 1913 edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.
Социалистическа Народна Република България от 1944 г. до 1989 г само цифри и факти. Живота от 1944 до 1989 който загубихме и това което "спечелихме" от 1989 до днес. Четете и разказвайте за да знаят хората истинската си история.... За периода 1979-1988 г. САЩ увеличава БВП на глава от населението със 182%, Япония с 275%, Германия със 158%, Франция със 157%, а България увеличава БВП на глава от населението с 234%. Това ще рече, че България по време на комунизма, дори и в годините на Перестройка, никога не е била в рецесия, камо ли фалирала, както поучава западната пропаганда.by (http://www.bgspomen.com/2016/05/1944-1989.html)
Created by Antti Lipponen, a researcher at the Finnish Meteorological Institute, the video uses temperature anomaly data from NASA to show that despite year-to-year variations, communities across the globe are experiencing significantly warmer temperatures since the early 20th century, reported Vox.by (http://e360.yale.edu/digest/new-video-visualizes-a-century-of-global-warming-in-just-35-seconds)
Тези две племена обитават териториите на южна Етиопия и северната част на Кения. И имат много общо помежду си – сходни условия на живот, еднакви бичаи и любов към творчеството. Дълго време тяхната култура била недокосната заради отдалечеността си от шумната цивилизация. Племената Surma и Mursi населяват пустинни планини, които дълго време останали неизследвани. Тези редки кадри са дело на немския фотограф Ханс Силвестър /Hans Silvester/. Публикувани са в две изключително любопитни издания – „Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa" и „Ethiopia: Peoples of the Omo Valley". Силвестър дълго време бил свидетел на живота на хората от двете племена и се опитал да съхрани в детайли колкото може повече от тяхното живо изкуство. Фотографът се страхува, че в близко бъдеще, всичката екзотичност от бита на племената ще бъде забравена и изгубена за света. Ето част от фотографиите, които представят особеностите на естетиката и красотата на племенните хора. Те с благодарност използват всички средства на природата, за да творят върху себе си – с треви, цветя, клонки, плодове, рогове, минерални пигменти, вулканична пепел. Живот в ярки и наситени цветове.(http://webstage.bg/pateshestviya/2010-estestvena-moda-plemenata-surma-i-mursi.html)
There is a calm and laid-back energy in Bulgaria, one that makes it easy to visit and easy to like. The people are humble and polite, the streets are calm and it is easy to simply wander and enjoy the country for what it is. I had only planned on staying a few days before moving on, but ended up staying for almost three weeks and still wasn’t quite ready to leave.by (http://www.brenontheroad.com/travel-bulgaria-plovdiv-sofia/)
Магията на свещената планина Родопи очарова, омайва и пристрастява. Веднъж тръгнеш ли на пътешествие в Родопите, ти се иска да обиколиш цялата планина. Планински маршрути, древни гробници, светилища, лековита бистра вода, загадки, мистични легенди, защитени редки животни, разнообразни билки – истинска природна лечебница… Виждали ли сте цялото това богатство?by (http://erodopi.eu/20-%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8-%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BA%D0%B8-%D0%BD%D0%B0-%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5-%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B6%D1%82%D0%B5/)
This ongoing series began in schools in North East England in 2004 and was extended to schools throughout the UK the following year. Since 2005 the archive has grown to include schools from North and South America, Europe and the Middle East.by (http://fishki.net/1233080-kak-vygljadjat-ucheniki-i-ih-klassy-v-raznyh-stranah.html, http://www.juliangermain.com/projects/classrooms.php)
Burkina Faso is by no means an area frequented by tourists, but at the base of a hill overlooking the surrounding sun-drenched West African savannah lies an extraordinary village, a circular 1.2 hectare complex of intricately embellished earthen architecture. It is the residence of the chief, the royal court and the nobility of the Kassena people, who first settled the region in the 15th century, making them one of the oldest ethnic groups in Burkina Faso.by (http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/01/10/the-african-village-where-every-house-is-a-work-of-art/, https://www.flickr.com/photos/rietje/sets/72157615598783227/with/3375700723/, http://www.travelwitholga.com/)
How did toast become the latest artisanal food craze? Ask a trivial question, get a profound, heartbreaking answer.
The menu also features a go-for-broke option called “Build Your Own Damn House,” which consists of a coffee, a coconut, and a piece of cinnamon toast. Hanging in the door is a manifesto that covers a green chalkboard. “We are local people with useful skills in tangible situations,” it says, among other things. “Drink a cup of Trouble. Eat a coconut. And learn to build your own damn house. We will help. We are building a network.”
At first, Carrelli explained Trouble as a kind of sociological experiment in engineering spontaneous communication between strangers. She even conducted field research, she says, before opening the shop. “I did a study in New York and San Francisco, standing on the street holding a sandwich, saying hello to people. No one would talk to me. But if I stayed at that same street corner and I was holding a coconut? People would engage,” she said. “I wrote down exactly how many people talked to me.”
If the spread of toast is a social contagion, then Carrelli was its perfect vector. Most of us dedicate the bulk of our attention to a handful of relationships: with a significant other, children, parents, a few close friends. Social scientists call these “strong ties.” But Carrelli can’t rely on such a small set of intimates. Strong ties have a history of failing her, of buckling under the weight of her illness. So she has adapted by forming as many relationships—as many weak ties—as she possibly can. And webs of weak ties are what allow ideas to spread.by (http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/toast-story-latest-artisanal-food-craze-72676/; http://www.psmag.com/magazines/magazine-feature-story-magazines/joe-henrich-weird-ultimatum-game-shaking-up-psychology-economics-53135/)
Forget Your Pastby (http://imgur.com/gallery/MamwZ)
Owned by the Cincinnati Public Library, it is one of the most astounding examples of daguerreotype (the first known photographic method) in existence today. The clarity of each of its eight copper panels is equivalent to a 140,000-megapixel digital image, thousands of times better than high-end commercially available digital cameras today.by (http://www.rochester.edu/news/photos/daguerreotype.html)
Hopefully some of these maps will surprise you and you’ll learn something new. A few are important to know, some interpret and display data in a beautiful or creative way, and a few may even make you chuckle or shake your head.by (http://twistedsifter.com/2013/08/maps-that-will-help-you-make-sense-of-the-world/)
When this animation project started to take their first steps I intended to bring life to a large and extensive still life, flying over it in a manner similar to that fantastic intro created for the opening credits of a French film called Delicatessen. But then I still had not found the motif, the main characters of the action. So I looked into that enormous and inexhaustible source of inspiration that is Escher and tried to imagine how it could be his workplace, what things would surround an artist like him, so deeply interested in science in general and mathematics in particular. This, though, from a completely imaginary, free and invented point of view. And here is the result of that process, accompanied by the beautiful song “Lost Song” composed by Ólafur Arnalds, an Icelandic musician. Hope you like. Cristobal Vila, February 2012, Saragossa, Spain.by (http://www.etereaestudios.com/docs_html/inspirations_htm/intro.htm)
It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.by Vladimir Putin (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/opinion/putin-plea-for-caution-from-russia-on-syria.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&)
Landfill Harmonic film teaser from Landfill Harmonic on Vimeo.
Landfill Harmonic is an upcoming feature-length documentary about a remarkable musical orchestra in Paraguay, where young musicians play instruments made from trash. For more information about the film, please visit facebook.com/landfillharmonicmovie.by (http://vimeo.com/52711779)
There's a jungle inside Vietnam's mammoth cavern. A skyscraper could fit too. And the end is out of sight.by (http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/01/largest-cave/peter-photography#/01-vietnam-cave-714.jpg)
Although photography was still in its infancy, war correspondents produced thousands of images, bringing the harsh realities of the frontlines to those on the home front in a new and visceral way. As brother fought brother and the nation's future grew uncertain, the public appetite for information was fed by these images from the trenches, rivers, farms, and cities that became fields of battle.by The Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/02/the-civil-war-part-1-the-places/100241/)
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