Networking: 1905
via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive - Vintage Fine Art Prints by Dave
Gloucester, Massachusetts, circa 1905
“Fisherman getting ready for a trip”
8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company
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10 Unsolved Mysteries of the ‘Harry Potter’ Universe
via Flavorwire by Heba Hasan
Today [this was published on 31 July] marks the birthday of two very important characters in 21st-century popular culture: Harry Potter and his creator, J.K. Rowling. Whether you consider the Harry Potter series a classic for the ages, a guilty, mind-candy read, or an over-hyped amateur attempt at children’s literature, you can’t argue that the books fail to create a well-realized alternate reality. Rowling crafts a whole universe that is stunningly complex, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t some quirks about the magical wizarding world that still don’t entirely make sense to us.
What do wizards read for fun?
Do people read literature in Harry Potter?
Fiction books are rarely mentioned in the series, and none of the characters seem to read novels. We understand that a majority of teenage students aren’t prone to pick up Chaucer just for the fun of it, but you would think a bookworm like Hermione would occasionally peruse Dickens, especially since other forms of entertainment, such as television and computers, aren’t common in the magical world. The other questions, which you can read here together with their picture and bit of blurb, are listed below.
How can wizards co-exist with Christianity?
Why is Harry Potter so Eurocentric?
Why does Harry still wear glasses?
What do magical kids do before they’re 11?
How did Hagrid’s conception work?
What’s the deal with the Hufflepuff mascot?
Do Muggle parents worry about their magical children?
Is Voldemort asexual?
Why is the magical realm so technologically backwards?
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The Most Bizarre Water Parks in the World
via Flavorwire by Claire Cottrell
Having spotted this once-glorious Olympic venue re-imagined as a Wonka-fied water park dubbed the Happy Magic Water Cube, giving a second life to an international showpiece that had quietly fallen into disuse by bringing a fantastical variation of a day at the beach to the landlocked residents of Beijing, we couldn’t help but wonder what other wet, wacky parks exist in the world.
The original Imagineer and creator of the happiest place on Earth, Walt Disney, once said that “it’s kind of fun to do the impossible”. Surely the bizarre water parks of the world are testament to that statement. From a giant King Cobra water slide meant to mimic sliding down a snake’s slippery back to the most crowded wave pools in the world to lazy rivers in a land before time, click through to check out the strangest feats of aquatic, pleasure-seeking imaginations around the globe.
See the pictures here bizarre is not a sufficiently strong word to describe some of these places!
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Olympic Moments: 1956 – Hungary vs. USSR
from Britannica by Gregory McNamee
Held in Melbourne, Australia, the 1956 Olympic Games coincided with one of the signal events of Cold War history: the Soviet invasion of Hungary and its repression of a popular anticommunist revolution. During the month-long uprising, thousands of Hungarian freedom fighters were killed; in the following months, nearly 200,000 Hungarians fled their country, most to the United States and Western Europe.
Hungary’s Olympic team was swept up by these events, with part of the squad bound for Australia on a Soviet ship and another part awaiting air transit in Prague, Czechoslovakia. The Hungarian water polo team, which had won the gold medal in the 1952 Games, arrived with the first contingent and, anxious to prove itself, immediately set about defeating every squad that came before it.
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Why We Don't Like Seeing Photographs of Ourselves
from Big Think by Orion Jones
You know the feeling. You’ve been tagged in a Facebook photo, but that person with a contorted face only bares a passing a resemblance to the person you know from the bathroom mirror each morning.
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How Neuroscience Could Spoil Our Sense of Justice
from Big Think by Orion Jones
Greater scientific literacy is urgently needed given the increasing influence neuroscientific studies have over our legal system, sometimes determining the extent of a suspect's culpability.
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Gorgeous Photographs of Forgotten Palaces
from Flavorwire by Emily Temple
Paris-based photographer Thomas Jorion is a treasure hunter, photographing urban ruins and giving new life to dying buildings. In his wonderful series Forgotten Palaces, which we first spotted over at Faith is Torment, Jorion captures abandoned and decaying villas and castles in Switzerland, Italy and Germany, their splendor shining dimly through the rubble, reminding us that no beauty is meant to last, but rather transforms as time goes on. Click through to see a few of our favorites from the series, and then be sure to head over to Jorion’s website to check out even more of his work.
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