Mardi Gras: 1907
via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive – Vintage Fine Art Prints by Dave
New Orleans circa 1907
“The Rex pageant, Mardi Gras”
Laissez les bons temps rouler!
Panorama of two 8x10 glass plates, Detroit Publishing
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Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Fear and loathing, plus self-protection. In Brooklyn in the 1980s, a $65 revolver seemed like a good idea. But life with a gun was more stressful than without... more
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Boxing Day 1937 : Fire at HMV, Oxford Street, London
via Retronaut by Chris Wild
More images here
and no, I do NOT remember this!
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1950s : HMV, Oxford Street, London
via Retronaut by Chris Wild
More images here
Brings back memories of how things used to be!
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Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Soviet geologists came upon a family of six in remote Siberia. They had lived off the land, undetected, for 42 years. Then civilization had its way with them... more
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The Algorithms That Automatically Date Medieval Manuscripts
via New on MIT Technology Review
Around a million medieval documents have no date making their historical significance difficult to quantify. But automated computer techniques look set to revolutionise the work for historians.
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How Folding Paper can get You to the Moon
via How-To Geek by Asian Angel
Adrian Paenza presents a fun TEDEducation talk about exponential growth using the “folding of paper to reach the moon” as his example.
How many folds do you think it would take to reach the moon? You just might be surprised!
From YouTube: Can folding a piece of paper 45 times get you to the moon? By seeing what happens when folding just one piece of paper, we see the unbelievable potential of exponential growth. This lesson will leave you wanting to grab a piece of paper to see how many times you can fold it!
[via Geeks are Sexy]
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Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Physicists are drawn to elegant theories – “symmetrical”, they're called – some of which turn out to be true. But their beauty can be blinding... more
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Dr. Who perpetual calendar and star chart
via Boing Boing by David Pescovitz
BB pal Russell Walks created this wonderful Gallifreyan Perpetual Calendar and Galactic Star Chart for Timelords and their fans.
It enables you to “find the day of the week for any date between 1600 and 9999 AD”.
Large prints are $30.
It’s a BBC product so should be available in the UK with a UK price tag but ...!
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Idiosyncratic Illustrations of Memorable Musical Collaborations
via Flavorwire by Tom Hawking
We’ve written a bit about unexpectedly awesome musical collaborations here on Flavorwire over the years, and as such, we were rather taken by these illustrations of some such collaborations. They’re by artistic duo Pol and Sakiroo Choi, and we spotted them via Thaeger, whose write-up of the pieces may or may not be interesting reading, depending on how good your German is.
Anyway, click through and check out some of our favourites – there’s Run-DMC and Aerosmith, Kanye West and Daft Punk, and various others (but not, sadly, David Bowie and Mick Jagger, although maybe some things are better left un-illustrated.
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