I think it’s a great step forward toward understanding and non-traditional thinking to have magazines that convey that it’s all right to wear a veil. Many Eastern women are criticized by the West for covering up, but this magazine shows that Eastern fashion is something to celebrate.
The Pyrenees, Aquitaine, France
photo via artsandletters
It’s so vibrant. I would love to hike through these mountains.
The Collective Snapshot by Spanish Photographer: Pep Ventosa
The Collective Snapshot is actually a series of photographs where images “blend together dozens of snapshots to create an abstraction of the places we’ve been and the things we’ve seen.
This is pretty cool. We can see the overall beauty of a structure, but then inside each image we can make out the individual photos people snapped, and understand what they found photo-worthy: the top of a tower, the arch of a bridge, or the people down below.
If you were to bother to read my books, to behave as educated persons would, you would learn that they are not sexy, and do not argue in favor of wildness of any kind. They beg that people be kinder and more responsible than they often are. It is true that some of the characters speak coarsely. That is because people speak coarsely in real life. Especially soldiers and hardworking men speak coarsely, and even our most sheltered children know that. And we all know, too, that those words really don’t damage children much. They didn’t damage us when we were young. It was evil deeds and lying that hurt us.
— Kurt Vonnegut to the head of the school board at Drake High School in North Dakota, after the school burned all of its copies of Slaughterhouse-Five in 1973. (via minusmanhattan)
(Source: kottke.org)
Darwin’s first sketch of the tree of life from one origin.
Note the cross-bars for extinction — and that change is not conceived with some direction-as-progress. And notice Darwin’s simple words introducing the sketch, “I think…”(image source: Into the diagram; text source: Kasama)Fangirling.
How fantastic, that we have the very first sketch put forth to paper from a genius mind.
Extreme Geology: The Giant’s Causeway, Ireland and Staffa, Scotland
→ Credit for photos: one, two, and three.These amazing basalt columns can be found on Staffa, Scotland, and Giant’s Causeway in Nothern Ireland. These geological structures formed from volcanic activity over 50 mya where the slow cooling of basalt creates the hexagonal columns you see today; a process known as “columnar jointing”. It occurs where the basalt rapidly cools from the outside towards the centre, causing it to contract and form these structures.
This is fantastic! I want to see this.
