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Timelapse of the Imperceptible Effects of Aging Created from Family Portraits by Anthony Cerniello. Editor’s note: Watch the whole thing.

Timelapse of the Imperceptible Effects of Aging Created from Family Portraits by Anthony Cerniello

With sound. Don’t skip around. Just let it play, or else you’re missing out. Aging is fascinating thing to document in film and photography, from Noah Kalina’s 12+ year portrait a day project to Diego Goldberg’s family portrait series that began in 1976, it’s interesting to see how many different approaches there are. This new clip titled Danielle from filmmaker Anthony Cerniello tries something I’ve never seen before and packs an amazing punch.

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Christopher Hitchens. Why We Believe in Gods - Andy Thomson - American Atheists 09. Free courses. RSA Animate - Choice. Dad Films His Daughter Every Single Week For 14 Years. The Result Is Breathtaking. Nytimes.com/2013/12/22/opinion/sunday/santa-on-the-brain.html?pagewanted=1&ref=opinion. Livermore's mysterious lightbulb burns 110 years. Some mysteries never dim with time.

Livermore's mysterious lightbulb burns 110 years

One of them is hanging from an electrical wire in Livermore. At Livermore Fire Station No. 6 is a lightbulb that has not burned out in 110 years. Nobody, even in this golden age of technology, knows why. And no one wants to unscrew the bulb to find out. "It still gives that warm, comfy glow," said retired Livermore fire Division Chief Lynn Owens. The lightbulb is about 3 inches long and slightly rounder than a modern lightbulb. Its workings may be a mystery, but it's probably the most well-documented lightbulb in history. At the time, lightbulbs - at least practical ones that lasted more than 12 hours - had been around for only about 20 years.

Between 1901 and 1903, the then-60-watt bulb was moved to a firehouse on Second Street, and then to a new station on First and McLeod streets. Interviews. Mark Twain Tonight Clip 1 of 10. 700 Free Online Courses from Top Universities. Advertisment Take online courses from the world’s top universities for free.

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Education Courses Food Courses Geography Courses. Turek vs. Hitchens Debate: Does God Exist? The Ironic Success Of Experimental Philosophy : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture. iStockphoto.com Later this week, hundreds of philosophers will converge near San Francisco's Union Square for the 87th annual meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association.

The Ironic Success Of Experimental Philosophy : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture

Reporters from The San Francisco Chronicle will not be onsite to cover the invited symposia on the epistemology of modality or on the semantics and pragmatics of pejoratives. Local news stations will not record the sessions on Plato or on consciousness. The New York Times will not run a feature on the latest arguments concerning moral realism, reproduction and bioethics, war and global justice or the problem of animal pain.

Let's face it: philosophy rarely makes the news. 9 year old discusses the meaning of life and the universe. Isaac Chotiner: The Curse Of Knowledge: A Review Of Jonah Lehrer's "Imagine: How Creativity Works" Imagine: How Creativity Works By Jonah Lehrer (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 279 pp., $26) THE YEAR IS 1965.

Isaac Chotiner: The Curse Of Knowledge: A Review Of Jonah Lehrer's "Imagine: How Creativity Works"

Bob Dylan has just completed two weeks of touring in England. Sadhu. Two sadhus near Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Sadhu

A sadhu in Kathmandu, Nepal. Naga sadhu in Pashupatinath temple, Nepal Sadhu in Pashupatinath Etymology[edit] The Sanskrit terms sādhu ("good man") and sādhvī ("good woman") refer to renouncers who have chosen to live a life apart from or on the edges of society to focus on their own spiritual practice.[3] The words come from the Sanskrit root sādh, which means "reach one's goal", "make straight", or "gain power over".[4] The same root is used in the word sādhana, which means "spiritual practice".

Sadhu rituals[edit] PBS Off Book. 2nd 1st Farewell Their Fallen Comrades With A Huge Haka. What If Money Was No Object? on Devour. How Oil Prices Affect the Economy: Calling for a Third Industrial Revolution. Do Animals Grieve for the Dead? - Bernie Krause. Welcome to Philosophy News. PhilPapers: Online Research in Philosophy. Alternativeworship.org. When this site began, blogging was new and little-known.

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Now blogs are the bush telegraph of the movement, where the thinking and arguing and reporting goes on. As is the way with blogs, most link through to most of the others, so jump in anywhere and move around. Philippians 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable.