"The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it." - Bill Nye
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Fact:
There is enough iron in the human body to form a one-inch nail.
: Ten years in the making and culled from 5000 hours of footage, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC reveals the effect the web is having on our society, as seen through the eyes of “the greatest Internet pioneer you’ve never heard of”, artist, futurist and visionary Josh Harris. Harris, often called the “Warhol of the Web”, founded Pseudo.com, the first Internet television network during the infamous dot-com boom of the 1990s. He also curated and funded the ground breaking project “Quiet” in an underground bunker in NYC where over 100 people lived together on camera for 30 days at the turn of the millennium. With Quiet, Harris proved how we willingly trade our privacy for the connection and recognition we all deeply desire, but with every technological advancement such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter, becomes more elusive. Through his experiments, including a six-month stint living with his girlfriend under 24-hour electronic surveillance which led to his mental collapse, Harris demonstrated the price we pay for living in public.
To anyone who has given in to the tactics of today’s technological society (meaning you if you’re reading this), watch this. It will blow you away.
‘Through the wormhole, the scientist can see himself as he was one minute ago. But what if our scientist uses the wormhole to shoot his earlier self? He’s now dead. So who fired the shot?’
To learn more about what Stephen Hawking has to say concerning time travel, the fourth dimension and wormholes, click on the diagram.
Just bought this book from a street vender for $5! So excited to read it, I hear it’s amazing. Has anyone read it? What did you think??
For nine long years, the Battle of Cape Wind has raged on—often pitting environmentalists against environmentalists—but today Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that there will be turbines. It will be the nation’s first offshore wind farm but not, according to Salazar, the last. “This will be the first of many projects up and down the Atlantic coast,” he said.
This is so exciting!
The history of April 26th!
In 1865, John Wilkes Booth, President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, was killed by federal troops in Virginia.
In 1937, German planes bombed the city of Guernica in Spain.
In 1986, fires and explosions at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in the Soviet Union spread radioactive material over much of Europe.
In 2000, Vermont governor Howard Dean signed the nation’s first bill allowing gay couples to form civil unions.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, this is “a factitious word alleged to mean ‘a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, causing inflammation in the lungs.’”
The 45-letter word was coined to serve as the longest English word and is the longest word ever to appear in an English language dictionary
The most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth created to date. Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-solor mosaic of every square kilometer of our planet.
(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center)
Via The Big Picture
Shows lava spurting out of the site of a volcanic eruption at the Eyjafjallajökull volcano some 125 km east of Reykjavik. With lava still gushing, a small Icelandic volcano that initially sent hundreds fleeing from their homes is turning into a boon for the island nation’s tourism industry, as visitors flock to catch a glimpse of the eruption. (HALLDOR KOLBEINS/AFP/Getty Images)
