via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive – Vintage Fine Art Prints by Dave
1898. Winona, Minnesota
“Bridges over the Mississippi. Sternwheeler Lafayette Lamb”
8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company
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25 Collectable Classic Car Books
via abebooks.co.uk by Beth Carswell
Few subjects garner more passionate aficionados than classic cars. Both book collectors and automotive enthusiasts recognise the cultural and historical significance of vintage maintenance manuals, promotional pamphlets, serious analyses of the automotive industry in its infancy, and riveting biographies of early race car drivers and the cars they drove.
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Whale vaginas are amazing
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow
Mammal penises, including those of cetaceans, are pretty easy to find, while vaginas are more difficult to examine; historically, accounts of animal reproduction have emphasised the features of penises and theories of sperm competition, but a burgeoning scientific emphasis on whale vaginas is revealing structures and strategies that are amazing and wonderful.
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Is Mindfulness Dangerous?
via Big Think by Derek Beres
In his 1961 book, Psychotherapy East & West, the philosopher Alan Watts wrote,
If there is to be a battle, there must be a field of battle; when the contestants really notice this they will have a war dance instead of a war.Continue reading
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Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
How humanity learned to speak. A language organ? No. A language instinct? No. Our need to cooperate was what paved the way… more
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Life-sized nude sculpture made from typewriter parts
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow
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Imagination Is The Doorway To Mental Breakthroughs
via Big Think by Derek Beres
Most of us recognise soma as the ‘ideal pleasure drug’ in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.
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Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Alcohol, death, and the devil. In the 17th century, booze was rumored to turn men into swine, to expose their bodies to Satan’s touch… more
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Video: Charles Schulz draws Charlie Brown
"We all need reassurance that some people really do like us." (via Devour)
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