theverge By Keith Phipps | Illustrations by David Aguado It’s midnight in Hobart, Indiana, and the auditorium of the cozy, single-screen Art Theatre is echoing with the sounds of cartoon characters in the throes of passion. One orgasm follows another — first Marge Simpson then Bugs Bunny — as first-time attendees to the Art’s weekly screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show go through a variation on a ritual that’s taken place for nearly 40 years: the hazing of the "virgins." (Virgins under 18 get off the hook this particular night, due to the risqué nature of the initiation.) It’s not a packed house, but it’s lively as about 35 attendees, many of them regulars, file in and wait for the show to start, both on the screen and off. The Art, built in 1941, is a lovely art deco venue with a mural-covered auditorium, but like many small-town theaters it has struggled in recent years. First released in September of 1975, Rocky Horror has never left theaters, and the film is more famous now than ever.
Why Time Flies Have you ever noticed how older people keep mentioning that time keeps moving faster and faster? It's because we perceive time relative to the 'absolute' time we can compare it to... When you are 4 weeks old, a week is a quarter of your life. By the end of your first year, a week is just a fiftieth of your life. By the time you turn 50, a whole year will be a fiftieth of your life. This theory was first put forward by Paul Janet in 1897. Like many things, this will require some patience to get through. But in the end it'll be over faster than you thought or hoped it would be. Albert Einstein said about the perception of time, that 'an hour spent in the company of pretty girls passes more quickly than an hour spent in a dentist chair'. Waiting 24 days for Christmas at age 5 feels like waiting a year at age 54. According to this theory, assuming you'll become 100 years old, half of your perceived life is over at age 7. Did you notice how much faster the 10th year scrolled by than the first?
L'incroyable impact de la pollution numérique : constats et solutions * Entièrement dématérialisé, le numérique pourrait être une formidable solution aux problèmes écologiques mondiaux. Si seulement. Les communications, transmissions et récoltes d’informations ont beau se passer en ligne, les impacts sont, eux, bien réels. Nb : Dans la vidéo, une erreur d’interprétation s’est glissée sur le 4ième chiffre. Ce constat est d’ailleurs assez simple à poser : pour que l’usager puisse communiquer, travailler ou payer en ligne, il a besoin de machines bien physiques. Comment changer la donne ? Découvrez dans notre dossier les chiffres de la pollution digitale et les recours que vous avez pour consommer autrement. Le numérique pollue-t-il vraiment ? En 2018, tous les experts sont formels : internet pollue. Des structures très gourmandes Quelle industrie est la plus polluante ? La construction d’outils informatiques impacte la quantité de ressources naturelles disponibles. Des usagers peu informés Connaissez-vous l’impact d’un email ? – 5 740 kWh d’énergie primaire
In the Morning I'll Rise Above by Joe Bonomo | The Normal School: A Literary Magazine In 1928, the Victor Talking Machine label in Memphis, Tennessee, released a ten-inch shellac recording by Ishmon Bracey, a twenty-seven-year-old blues singer-guitarist from the Mississippi Delta. He’d been worried about the goings-on of his women, and his story arrives as many great narratives do, in expressionistic shards: Bracey’s got his “regular” woman, and his “sometime” woman, too, who has a kid but who comes running to Bracey at night. Both women steal from him. He warns his “sometime” woman that his “regular” gal will cut her, or maybe shoot her, if she finds her, that she’s the meanest woman he’s ever seen. Bracey wrote songs and performed for several more years, working alongside some of the great Delta musicians, and then drifted away from the blues. Somewhere else in the Volunteer State, later that night, Red Foley and his Cumberland Valley Boys are carousing in the deep, dark, and wild woods. What a blast! Overheard: . . . Center panel, later that day. Poor Bob Venable.
Timelapse: Landsat Satellite Images of Climate Change, via Google Earth Engine TIME and Space | By Jeffrey Kluger Editors note:On Nov. 29, 2016, Google released a major update expanding the data from 2012 to 2016. Read about the update here. Spacecraft and telescopes are not built by people interested in what’s going on at home. Rockets fly in one direction: up. Telescopes point in one direction: out. That changed when NASA created the Landsat program, a series of satellites that would perpetually orbit our planet, looking not out but down. Over here is Dubai, growing from sparse desert metropolis to modern, sprawling megalopolis. It took the folks at Google to upgrade these choppy visual sequences from crude flip-book quality to true video footage. These Timelapse pictures tell the pretty and not-so-pretty story of a finite planet and how its residents are treating it — razing even as we build, destroying even as we preserve. Chapter 1: Satellite Story | By Jeffrey Kluger But in 1966, Udall and his staff had an idea. 1 of 20 Aaron Vincent Elkaim / Boreal Collective
NICOLAS LAICK DESIGN © OFFICIEL The Fragile Ears of Men The mainstream press has remained leery of the multitalented harpist Joanna Newsom since her much-touted 2004 debut, despite consistent favorable reviews. It’s endlessly interesting to watch the press try to interpret Newsom, who is known for her acrobatic singing voice, operatic albums, and magisterial lyricism. She’s not what a woman musician is supposed to be—Taylor Swift? The untrained but deliberate squeaks and warbles in her voice and her pure disregard for established idioms—more like distance than active rejection—initially deceived some listeners into thinking she was a naïf, when in fact she’s a meticulous musical architect. Who knew there was a brain under all that hair? On a cold November night a few years ago, I saw Newsom in concert at Carnegie Hall. I would argue that it’s very simple: Because she’s a woman. Advertisement Whenever certain male critics write about Newsom, you can be sure her voice will be mentioned in a condescending fashion. From the Chicago Tribune:
Rubik’s Cube Explorer Ecology is a science that matters Ecology is the study of interactions among living things and their environment. It provides new understanding of these vital systems as they are now, and how they may change in the future. Why is ecology important? Ecology enriches our world and is crucial for human wellbeing and prosperity. It provides new knowledge of the interdependence between people and nature that is vital for food production, maintaining clean air and water, and sustaining biodiversity in a changing climate. Can we conserve a habitat and its biodiversity? Yes. Can we predict the ecological effects of pollution and climate change? Governments and citizens around the world are increasingly aware of the consequences of atmospheric pollution and climate change. Can we fish the ocean without depleting its riches? It is possible, but does depend on where we are in the world. How does forest destruction affect bird populations? About one third of forest bird species cannot live in small remnants of forests. Donate