She Stretches And Glides Her Body Over A Blank Canvas. When I Realized What She Was Creating, I Was Blown Away. Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud (1996. 20 Photos That Will Leave You Speechless. Simpians. Danielle. Do We Live In A Computer Simulation Created By An Advanced Alien Civilization? 40 Must-See Photos From The Past. The phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words” was coined by American newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane in 1911.
It’s a simple notion that applies to many aspects of our lives, but especially to historical photography. Sometimes, one simple picture can tell you more about history than any story you might read or any document you might analyze. [Read more...] These photographs all tell stories about the historical figures or events that they represent. Once taken simply to document their present, they now help us witness the past. Perhaps the wars, poverty, fights for freedom and little miracles of the past have lessons for us that we can use today? (via sobadsogood) Woman With A Gas-Resistant Pram, England, 1938 Unpacking the head of the Statue of Liberty, 1885 Elvis in the Army, 1958 Animals being used as part of medical therapy, 1956 Testing of new bulletproof vests, 1923 Charlie Chaplin at age 27, 1916 Hindenburg Disaster, May 6, 1937 Circus hippo pulling a cart, 1924. 4 College Kids Decided To Try Living Like 1.1 Billion People Do Every Day. Listen To The Orchestra Of Users Updating Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is a silent depository of information, an endless library where no one even dares to cough even though books are being added, subtracted, and edited with fervor at every moment.
But it’s silent no more. Listen to Wikipedia, inspired by Listen to Bitcoin and created by Mahmoud Hashemi and Stephen LaPorte, transforms the worldwide editing process into a relaxed global orchestra. A celesta plays whenever an addition is made. A clavichord sounds whenever something is deleted. The higher the pitch, the smaller the edit. “Listen to Wikipedia was designed to be simple,” explains Mahmoud Hashemi, “a visualization which doesn’t overshadow the sonification aspect and a sonification which scales well between different levels of traffic. And just like a wind chime, the tones play on a pentatonic scale, which allows any random order of notes (or edits) to sound equally pleasant.
Of course, you can learn something from Listen to Wikipedia if you look and listen closely enough. Try it here. Tackling the Roots of Rape. Newly Discovered Eighth Grade Exam From 1912 Shows How Dumbed Down America Has Become. Have you ever seen the movie “Idiocracy”?
It is a movie about an “average American” that wakes up 500 years in the future only to discover that he is the most intelligent person by far in the “dumbed down” society that is surrounding him. Unfortunately, that film is a very accurate metaphor for what has happened to American society today. We have become so “dumbed down” that we don’t even realize what has happened to us.
But once in a while something comes along that reminds us of how far we have fallen. In Kentucky, an eighth grade exam from 1912 was recently donated to the Bullitt County History Museum. Just check out some of the questions from the eighth grade exam that was discovered. -Through which waters would a vessel pass in going from England through the Suez Canal to Manila?
-How does the liver compare in size with other glands in the human body?
Tak miała wyglądać Polska w 2000 roku - futurystyczny film z 1971 roku. Dokument zrealizowany przez Jerzego Kadena w roku 1972 jest niezłą lekcją historii.
Uczy nas nie tylko o wyzwaniach urbanistycznych, przed jakimi stała Polska po drugiej wojnie światowej. Pokazuje też wizję świata, w której miasto ciągną się przez dziesiątki kilometrów tworząc gigantyczne aglomeracje a "zwykłym ludziom" żyje się lżej dzięki nowoczesnej technologii i architekturze. Jakie wizje roztaczali ówcześni urbaniści? Zamówienia indywidualne - koszulkowo.com. Odzież męska online sklep internetowy Denley - Koszule męskie, kurtki skórzane, płaszcze, swetry - sklepy internetowe z odzieżą.
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