The Earliest Days of NASA
Maria Popova, at Brain Pickings, happened upon a treasure trove of early NASA (and its airplane-only predecessor NACA) archive photos. They are really something. From biplanes to the Mercury capsule, pre-1950 aeronautics seemed to live by the motto of “If we build it, then we can go there.” That’s a sentiment we could use a bit more of.
Yes please!
Mother Joyous and Sister Adorable were seen walking down 14th Street yesterday.
Aug. 30, 1931: “A new turn in the history of diving” at a pool in Los Angeles, where Georgia Coleman — in preparation for the 1932 Summer Olympics there, where she won two medals — practiced “a complicated fancy dive.” Photo: The New York Times
100 years ago, Los Angeles began diverting the river and streams that feed Owens Lake to a thirsty city.
Over the [past] century, the water source in the Eastern Sierras has all but dried up. Massive dust storms now buffet a floodplain the size of San Francisco, making it the largest single source of dust pollution in the United States.
According to the LAWDP, Los Angeles still sucks 36 percent its water from the creeks that would flow in to the Owens Valley.
Photographer David Maisel flew over Owens Lake in 2001 and 2002 to capture the bone-dry salt flats and blood-red lake expanses that occur when pink, salt-loving microorganisms and algae spread across the arid surface.
See more photos from the series at KPCC’s AudioVision.
when i think of “the future,” there is not anything that makes me feel more worried than water, in every regard. anxiety inducing or not, these are incredible photos.
Kasia Jackowska
Kasia Jackowska’s Drawing Mathematics series whimsically illustrates various mathematical concepts as part of a project done for a brochure published by the University of Warsaw. Simple and sweet, these drawings add creativity to convention, using principles and formulas as her inspiration, and stylized animals as her muses. Can you recognize all the concepts?
See many more drawings and paintings by Jackowska at her website here.
- Erin Saunders
The artist has a Tumblr, too.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
Our relationships with music sometimes resemble our relationships with people: Familiarity can breed contempt, we can grow apart and our connections can be rooted in specific circumstances that couldn’t (or shouldn’t) be repeated. Music has a way of tethering our memories in place — of making them vivid and specific — but a side effect of that is that our favorite songs and albums often get reduced to little more than fodder for nostalgia.
You have come to the end of the world. Keep walking.
definitely worth clicking through to see more.
Identity is not a bunch of little cubbyholes stuffed respectively with intellect, race, sex, class, vocation, gender. Identity flows between, over, aspects of a person. Identity is a river – a process.
Mantis shrimp, drawn from the specimen at AMNH. Not sure which species it is, I should check next time I go to the museum.
These guys have really amazing eyes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantis_shrimp#EyesThanks for the submission Kora!
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