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Lemurs, Madagascar
Photo: Stephen AlvarezDecken’s sifakas appear right at home in their karst home in western Madagascar. These lemurs live...
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As long as it flows freely from our taps, many of us fail to fully appreciate the wonders of clean, abundant water. While Cynthia Barnett is not the...
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Andvinyly, a UK-based outfit, has this offer: after you die, you can have some of your cremated ashes pressed into a vinyl record.
You can choose your own music for the record, or none at all.
From the Andvinyly website:
Basic Package - Up to 30 discs
Includes Standard R.I.V. artwork with your name, d.o.b & d.o.d on cover & labels. The audio must be supplied by you. This can be music, a vocal recording or complete silence to let loved ones hear your pops & crackles and should be no more than 4 minutes. (12 minutes on each side with additional charge if you exceed this amount) Price: £3,000.
If you were to go this route, what music or message would you choose?
And in case you were wondering, pets ashes are also accepted. Price: same as humans.
A new visual vocabulary that reflects the multi-dimensional role of great teachers from Hyperakt and Studio 360, with plenty of free downloadable posters. Related reading: A New Culture of Learning.
In 23 minutes.
This is that moment in social media where the president does something before you’ve done it. Used to be he’d join Tumblr, or Twitter, well after we had used the toolsets. Now? 10 bucks says you haven’t done a “Hangout.”
Happening right now. Pretty awesome!
Xuyen Pham’s Garden; East New Orleans, LA
After Xuyen Pham lost her New Orleans home to Hurricane Katrina, she turned the property into a farm to feed her community. She fled Vietnam with her husband and children at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. After months in Southeast Asian refugee camps they were moved to Fort Chaffee in Arkansas. The family was eventually sponsored by a hotel owner in Oklahoma, but the cold proved too much so they moved yet again, settling in the “Mary Queen of Vietnam” community in East New Orleans.
This farm is surrounded by houses (we are right in the middle of a suburban housing tract in East New Orleans).
Xuyen stands amidst taro plants in her home garden. The plant stems are a base ingredient in traditional soups and congees found on most Vietnamese dinner tables. By growing taro and other vegetables, she keeps Vietnamese traditions alive in her community.
Xuyen’s definition of “food sovereignty”: The ability of community members to control food access (both effluent and influent) independent of outside food sources (such as supermarkets). Members of the community grow traditional fruits and vegetables and fisherfolk go shrimping, fishing, and crabbing to sell at local stores, the local Saturday farmers market, and most importantly, to feed their families and community members.
Xuyen is also a participant in a local New Orleans East aquaponics project. The project is being implemented by MQVN Community Development Corporation and was established originally by fisherfolk displaced by the BP oil drilling disaster as a way to create jobs and to ensure adequate food access in New Orleans East (a USDA-identified food desert). In the near future, she and her husband, with the help of MQVN Community Development Corporation, will construct greenhouses and an aquaponics growing system on their farm plot.
Getty photographer Daniel Berehulak documented the lives of miners in Jaintia Hills, India - see more images from him and other stark photographs of coal here.
Missouri has never looked so good … Dave Imus’ map of the United States recently won the “Best of Show” at the annual competition of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society.
Slate magazine calls Imus’ cartographic work of art, “The Greatest Paper Map Of The United States You’ll Ever See.”
“What I did different than anybody else who ever made a map of the United States was that I brought into focus… the basic geography,” Imus told Here & Now’s Robin Young. “People that read this map or look at it on the wall can understand and appreciate more deeply the character of the United States… the lay of the land.”
(Image: A map of Missouri. Courtesy Dave Imus, Imus Geographics.)
On Saturday, an estimated 2,000 people participated in the Oakland Rise-Up! Festival, an Occupy Oakland demonstration. However, the situation turned violent halfway through the afternoon as protesters began tearing down construction barricades to a building they planned to re-purpose as a community action center. Riot police used tear gas and flash bombs to disperse the crowd, who reportedly retaliated by pelting officers with broken bottles, pipes, and improvised explosive devices. The protesters went on to enter and vandalize City Hall, burning two American flags.
Over 400 protesters were arrested.
The Sun Shows A Flare for the Dramatic
Great piece on Monday’s solar flare which caused “a ‘cantaloupe’ of plasma that makes Earth look like a grape.”
An infographic history of Tokyo from the dawn of time until 2,000 A.D. by Japanese illustrator and graphic designer Bunpei Yorifuji.
Click through to see illustrations in detail.
The Daily Show’s Wyatt Cenac on his role in skewering news media and his current project, hosting the fourth season of “AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange” on public television.
“I like documentaries, I have to do community service for some gambling debts, um … and so why not do this,” Cenac said about his public television stint.
