via Picture This, Library of Congress by Julie Stoner
I am the first to admit that my knowledge of cars is rather limited. And perhaps like me, you thought electric cars were a relatively new phenomenon. Imagine my surprise when I stumbled across the 1919 photograph below of a car being charged!
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via OUP Blog by Storm Dunlop
Supercell Chaparral New Mexico by tpsdave. Public Domain via Pixabay.
From the devastating effects of tornadoes and typhoons to deciding the best day for a picnic, the weather impacts our lives on a daily basis. Despite new techniques and technologies that allow us to forecast the weather with increasing accuracy, most of us do not realise the vast global movements and forces which result in their day-to-day weather. Storm Dunlop tells us ten things we should know about weather in its most dramatic and ordinary forms.
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via The New Statesman by Antonia Quirk
“I literally couldn’t believe I had to work in this thing. That I’d signed a contract...” The actress Pui Fan Lee remembered what it was like to play the red-suited Po for an episode of Witness marking the 20th anniversary of the first episode of Teletubbies. Lee had just graduated from drama school and took the job as one might take a job delivering pizzas. Little did she know she was now a part of the Beatles of kids’ television, a show that mesmerised not only the target audience, but everybody else, too, who couldn’t stop talking about it.
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via Boing Boing by Jason Weisberger
Submarine emergency ascents are really cool. The soundtrack kind of sucks. I turned it off after a few iterations.
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via OUP Blog by the Oxford University Press Bible editorial team
Vitrail de la cathédrale américaine de la Sainte-Trinité de Paris, by GO69. CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
In the history of evangelical Protestant thought in America, few publications have been more influential, or more seminal, than The Scofield Reference Bible (first published in 1909, and thoroughly revised by the original author for publication in 1917). The Rev. Dr. C. I . Scofield labored for years to produce this annotated and cross-referenced edition of the King James Version Bible, in order to explicate for interested Christian believers an approach to understanding the deeper meaning of the Scriptures.
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Rebellious Russian poet and author of Babi Yar, who became a celebrity in the west
via the Guardian by Robin Milner-Gulland
Yevtushenko at the Yad Vashem museum of the Holocaust in Jerusalem, 2007. His poem Babi Yar, which brought him fame in 1961, sprang from the second world war Nazi massacre at a ravine near Kiev. Photograph: Jim Hollander/EPA/Rex/Shutterstock
In the middle of a novel published in the Soviet Union in 1981, two young people are exchanging opinions about Russian poetry. After several names have come up, one asks the other, “And how about Yevtushenko?”, to which he gets the reply: “That’s another stage that’s already past.” An unremarkable exchange, of course, save that the novel (Wild Berries) was by the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko himself.
It indicates several things about Yevtushenko, who has died aged 84: his unquenchable self-regard, his ability to laugh at himself, his appreciation of the vagaries of fame. It also reminds us that there was a brief stage when the development of Russian literature seemed almost synonymous with his name.
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via OUP Blog by Berit Henrickson
Alizbar by Medunizza. CC BY – SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
The harp is an ancient instrument found in a wide variety of sizes, shapes, and tunings in musical cultures throughout the world. In the West, the harp has been used to accompany singing in religious rituals and court music. It even appears as a solo instrument in jazz and popular music and with symphony orchestras.
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via Boing Boing by David Pescovitz
The great Ray Manzarek makes magic on the Fender Rhodes as he reveals the musical evolution of the classic Doors song. (Don't blink or you'll miss guitarist Robby Krieger.)
(via Laughing Squid)
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via 3 Quarks Daily: from Phys.Org
A member of the Ngogo community of chimpanzees in Uganda's Kibale National Park.
Credit: Brian Wood/Yale University
A 20-year demographic study of a large chimpanzee community in Uganda's Kibale National Park has revealed that, under the right ecological conditions, our close primate relatives can lead surprisingly long lives in the wild. The study, published March 19 in the Journal of Human Evolution, establishes an average life expectancy of about 33 years in its sample of 306 chimpanzees, nearly twice as high as that of other chimpanzee communities and within the 27- to 37-year range of life expectancy at birth of human hunter-gatherers. These findings are important for understanding the evolution of chimpanzee and hominin life histories, the researchers argue.
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via Boing Boing by Jason Weisberger
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