via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive – Vintage Fine Art Prints by Dave
Chicago November 1942.
“Locomotives loading up with coal, water and sand at an Illinois Central Railroad yard before going out on the road.”
Medium-format negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information
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Name Any Color Imaginable With This Color Thesaurus
via Small Business Trends by DashBurst In Marketing Tips
Have you ever had trouble correctly labeling certain colors? Well, you won’t have that problem again, thanks to writer and children’s book illustrator Ingrid Sundberg, who cleverly created a color thesaurus to help you name any color imaginable.
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Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Smiles are fleeting, says Mary Beard, and hard to pin down. The perfect smile is a modern obsession. Blame the dental-industrial complex… more
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Top 25 weirdest and most inappropriate children’s books of all time
via Boing Boing by Mitch O’Connell
I have stacks of children’s book, either because I loved them as a kid, bought them for my first two kids, or, as an illustrator, purchased them for the inspiring art.
And now, I’m restocking for our newborn son Aiden.
But once in awhile I’ll stumble across something that'll just make me just scratch my head. As in, “What the f**k were they thinking?!” And since I also love to share, here are some highlights ...for you!
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Report: Unique Human Faces Evolved To Signal Individual Identity
via Big Think by Robert Montenegro
The reason you’ve got a different nose from the person who lives next door isn’t just because you have different parents. A new report in Nature Communications suggests that our diverse facial features can be linked to an evolutionary development from eons ago that corresponded with the increased importance of interpersonal interaction.
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Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Grand critiques of the humanities rely on caricature. When we look closely, we see the value it bring. Consider historians… more
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Why people believe things you don’t believe
via Boing Boing by David McRaney
Why do Holocaust deniers, young Earth creationists, people who think they’ve lived past lives as famous figures, people who claim they’ve been abducted by aliens, and people who stake their lives on the power of homeopathy believe things that most of us do not? David McRaney investigates.
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Our Education System Conflicts With the Science of Learning
via Big Think by Robert Montenegro
Science writer Benedict Carey lays out everything we know about learning and memory in his new book How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens. What he found was that our brains aren't designed to learn in a ritual manner such as with the typical educational setting. Instead, the brain is a forager designed to pick up information on the go. This has major implications for how students study, he says. There is no one-size-fits-all tactic for effective learning.
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Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Graffiti varies from place to place. In New York, it’s gallery-approved. In the Arab world, it’s political. In Pompeii, it was erotic and funny… more
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Spheres o’ gears
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow
Deviantart’s Taffgoch creates beautiful models of spheres made from kinetic elements, primarily gears.
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and please go to the link as well.
You will find some fascinating images.
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