February 2010
12 posts
My work already called tomorrow a snow day!...
WatchMost recent YES MEN stunt included a fake video of agribusiness giant ADM’s CEO making over-honest pronouncements which a legal complaint from ADM has resulted in the removal of from Youtube. (watch the video above, read the press release here!)
“Last week, the filmmaking team behind The End of Poverty? partnered with the Yes Men to create a parallel, imaginary World Economic Forum in...
Does Being Happy Make You Healthy? →
Interesting article from GOOD about how happiness and health are closely related.
“emerging research has begun to validate what many wisdom traditions have intuitively known—that having a sense of peace, fulfillment, and purpose leads to a healthier, more balanced, and longer life.”
Social Scientist Martin Seligman has proposed a “happiness formula”—
Happiness = Set Point +...
Obama’s 2011 Budget Proposal, Department by... →
Interesting infographic by the New York Times to show where 2011’s money will go.
The Century Camera →
In a time of such immediate gratification, something about this simple project really feels radical. Artist Jonathan Keats asks others to create a kind of slow motion documentary of your own life. I find this project quite intriguing; Keats artwork challenges us to think about ones own personal physical history over the next hundred years and engages us to make something which you yourself will...
January 2010
13 posts
Dispersion of Sound Waves in Ice Sheets
This is FANTASTIC!
The most striking thing about these recordings is the synthetic-sounding descending tones caused by the phenomenon of the dispersion of sound waves. The high frequencies of the popping and cracking noises are transmitted faster by the ice than the deeper frequencies, which reach the listener with a time lag as glissandi sinking to almost bottomless depths. (via the amazing...
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
– Virginia Woolf (via bitchville; totes)
