I Want No One Else to Succeed. This is why we can't have nice things.
Poo-Poo Project Saves Wyoming Owls, Other Birds From Horrible Public Toilet Deaths. (via Metafilter)
A third-person account of a dramatic wedding told in real time. You have to laugh at how awful it is.
The Noble Rhubarb: Himalayan Marvel of Nature’s Ingenuity. It looks odd, but can thrive where other plants can't.
Living Color: Strange Square Snapshots. High weirdness from the 1960s. (via Boing Boing)
As the story goes, Old Tom Parr was relatively healthy for being 152 until a visit to noxious, polluted London in 1635 cut his long life short. (via Nag on the Lake)
"Our findings suggest that lack of health insurance explains about five to twenty percent of the mortality disparity between high- and low-income Americans." (via Metafilter)
Bees: not only do they learn, they cooperate. (via Everlasting Blort)
I enjoyed those weird old photos from the 1960s!
ReplyDeleteNo one else to succeed is what helps explain why rock is dead. Once rock fans began turning on groups for succeeding it was the beginning of the end.
ReplyDeleteNo-one else succeeding. Did something similar(ish) back in grade 12. We had been given assignments in social studies to be about world events. Came up with an imaginary planet. Two main landmasses with unequal critical resources, each had an excess of what the other lacked and each populated by people that were uneasy about the other. Also had global weather patterns and ocean currents. Then at the end a shopping list of weapons and budgets. Each also had substantive defences so invasions were pretty much ruled out. The class was split in two and given time to independently come up with a solution to their resource shortfalls. No-one came up with working together, or if someone did they were over-ruled buy the mob. They went full nuke/chemical/bio attack mode. They then presented their solutions . Each was looked at and shown that given the nature of the resources, weather, ocean patterns etc that the resources would be destroyed and/or rendered inaccessible and that their attack would also most likely result in their own destruction. This was followed by a discussion about mutual assistance, why they went with the worst option and that sometimes you had to stand back and look at the whole picture. I like to think that it opened a few eyes but like the class in the article there were a few who were “well, yeah, but #@$% the other guys”. Just no understanding that we all do better when we all do better.
ReplyDeleteIt's really weird that the USA doesn't have free health care.
ReplyDeleteNothing is free, obviously, but a tax on everyone should be paying for everyone's health needs.
This is what every country does, apart from America and China.
China might, I just can't find the info on them.
China throws people out when they have no means of support. There are no homes for orphans. Children have to roam the streets to survive. Marx thought concerns for women and children were petite bourgeoise. Only the workers revolution mattered.
DeleteThe reason the pictures are all square is because the standard format for personal point-and-shoot cameras used 126-size film – the plastic cartridges that would allow the user to take either 12 or 20 photos per roll. The film itself was actually 35-mm film, but the way it was formatted yielded negatives that were 26.5 millimeters by 26.5 millimeters square.
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, you could still take pictures of tall objects or portraits of people by rotating the camera 45 degrees (so the square was now a diamond-shape, standing on one corner) and then shooting the picture.
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