Lil Swingers: 1905
via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive – Vintage Fine Art Prints by Dave
Detroit circa 1905
“Children’s Day, Belle Isle Park”
8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company
View original post Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate The American character was forged by barbarism, torture, murder, and massacre. Bernard Bailyn is ankle-deep in the bloody details ... more
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Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Two cheers for paternalism. We are too fat, too in debt, and too terrible at planning for the future to avoid rethinking Mill’s harm principle... more
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The Saturday Books
via Pages & Proofs by Richard Davies
The Saturday Book was an annual miscellany that featured art, literature and comment on British life during World War II and the decades that followed until 1975. The series was initially edited by Leonard Russell with John Hadfield taking over the reins in 1952.
Continue reading – and get a fascinating glimpse into life before many of you were born!
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Classic books you should actually read
via Pages & Proofs by Richard Davies
Our latest video is a good one. My colleague Beth (check out her swan-themed dress) talks about the classic books you should actually read. I’ve ploughed my way through Moby-Dick and it was indeed a very tough book to read, the language was particularly challenging. I finished it though.
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Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
The American character was forged by barbarism, torture, murder, and massacre. Bernard Bailyn is ankle-deep in the bloody details ... more
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Dolphins call to one another by name
via Boing Boing by Jason Weisberger
Discovery shares the findings. “The researchers said dolphins copy the signature whistles of loved ones, such as a mother or close male buddy, when the two are apart. These ‘names’ were never emitted in aggressive or antagonistic situations and were only directed toward loved ones.”
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Crows have fun on snow-covered car
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder
I watched this full-screen and loved it – the shades of grey, the falling snow, the playful crows. Thank you to the person who captured this on video!
(Via Arbroath)
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Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Progress and poverty. The ideal of having enough – being comfortable – used to hold sway, along with a belief that wealth increased poverty. No more... more... more...
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A gravity map of the Moon
via Boing Boing by Maggie Koerth-Baker
Gravity isn’t uniform. Denser planets and objects in space – that is, things with more mass to them – experience a stronger pull of gravity. But even if you zoom in to the level of a single planet (or, in this case, our Moon), gravity isn’t uniform all the way around. That’s because the mass of the Moon isn’t uniform, either. It varies, along with the topography. In some places, the Moon’s crust is thicker. Those places have more mass, and thus, more gravitational pull.
This map, showing changes in density and gravity across the surface of the Moon, was made from data collected by Ebb and Flow – a matched set of NASA probes that mapped the Moon’s gravitational field before being intentionally crashed on its surface last December. By measuring the gravitational field, these probes told us a lot about how the density of the Moon varies which, in turn, tells us a lot about topography. You can read more about the probes (and see some videos they took of the lunar surface) at the NASA Visualization Explorer.
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Abbott & Costello’s classic “who's on first?” routine wonderfully retold in a children’s book
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder
Read all about it here
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