An utterly charming gallery of Victorians smiling
Happy Afternoon, Internet!
Bookish, curious, critical. I also curate a manuscript blog.
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2012-05-30 436 notes
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2012-05-29 33 notes
Kate Heart has put together an array of charts breaking down the covers of 2011’s Young Adult fiction.
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I’ve tried everything, including begging the Chinese regime, begging the same group of people who put me in this position, who hold my parents hostage, who continue to persecute dissidents in China. And then these attempts didn’t succeed.
Dissident Wuer Kaixi talks about fellow activist Chen Guangcheng, his own attempt to return to China, and his continued hope for “counter-talk” with the regime that exiled him.
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2012-05-28 146 notes
Amazing! The Atlas of the United States Printed for the Use of the Blind circa 1837 for children at the New England Institute for the Education of the Blind in Boston.
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This is a foundational document for Information Theory by Claude Shannon.
It strongly occurs to me that the artists that I am most interested in might constitute the role of “Noise Source” in this diagram. Furthermore, the artist as noise source might not only disrupt a message but may also amplify or add useful complexity to a given message.
This may be seen as the starting point of why I want artists to get involved in Data Visualization. While Shannon needed to remove “meaning” from the flow of information ( for the sake of sending it over telephone lines), artists might then tactically re-insert meaning in their role as a “noise source”.
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2012-05-27 77 notes
André Kertész
Avenue de l’opéra vue de haut
Paris, 1929”
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2012-05-26 9 notes
Todo tiene su momento, y todo cuanto se hace debajo del sol tiene su tiempo. Hay tiempo de nacer y tiempo de morir; tiempo de plantar y tiempo de arrancar lo plantado; tiempo de matar y tiempo de curar; tiempo de destruir y tiempo de edificar; tiempo de llorar y tiempo e reír; tiempo de lamentarse y tiempo de danzar; tiempo de esparcir las piedras y tiempo de amontonarlas; tiempo de abrazarse y tiempo de separarse; tiempo de buscar y tiempo de perder; tiempo de guardar y tiempo de tirar; tiempo de rasgar y tiempo de coser; tiempo de callar y tiempo de hablar; tiempo de amar y tiempo de aborrecer; tiempo de guerra y tiempo de paz.
Eclesiastés, capítulo 2. Texto tomado para la obra There is a time de José Limón.
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You want a physicist to speak at your funeral.
You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy…
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2012-05-24 85 notes
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2012-05-23 29,459 notes
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2012-05-22 125 notes
You’ve seen my descent. Now watch my rising.
— Rumi (via wewereemergencies)
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2012-05-21 4,233 notes
If you haven’t yet read it, take a look at this fantastic comic: “Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived” but then read this fact-checking article.
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2012-05-20 764 notes
Apparently this is how xkcd creator Randall Munroe pays his Verizon bill.
That’s one way to stick it to the man. It’s also awesome.
(Yes, there’s a typo in the caption. It’s iπ, not 2π. Carry on. Original here.)
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2012-05-18 4,825 notes
Nüshu (literally “women’s writing” in Chinese) is a syllabic script created and used exclusively by women in the Jiangyong County in Hunan province of southern China. Up until the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) women were forbidden access to formal education, and so Nüshu was developed in secrecy as a means to communicate. Since its discovery in 1982, Nüshu remains to be the only gender-specific writing system in the world.
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