— Happy Mother’s Day! Timeless letters of motherly advice from Anne Sexton and other famous moms. (via explore-blog)
Cute animation of a drunken pun (what more can you want?)
— Jag Bhalla considers the evolutionary basis of storytelling. Also see The Storytelling Animal and complement with Kurt Vonnegut on the shapes of stories. (via explore-blog)
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(Always in the shadow of a stronger argument against.)
A Softer World just says what I’m thinking … but darker.
— Paul Schmidtberger, Design Flaws of the Human Condition (via emmauri)
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— Writer Paul Theroux on note-taking while traveling, a beautifully analog record of experience in the digital age. Complement with Joan Didion on keeping a notebook, Virginia Woolf on the creative benefits of journaling, and Mary Gordon on the joy of writing by hand. (via explore-blog)
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This is a camera that captures a wide field of view with no distortion. DARPA says it is inspired by insect eyes.
No female reporter before her had ever seemed quite so audacious, so willing to risk personal safety in pursuit of a story.How to pack like Nellie Bly, pioneering Victorian journalist who raced around the world in 80 days.
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(via Lady Mechanic Initiative Trains Women For ‘The Best Job’ : NPR)
In Nigeria, the Lady Mechanic Initiative trains women to fix cars. Founder Sandra Aguebor-Ekperuoh started the initiative after having a vision from God.
She has trainee mechanics all around the country. Some of the young women are from disadvantaged backgrounds, some former sex workers and others just hugely enthusiastic.
Faith Macwen, who graduated from the Lady Mechanic Initiative in 2009, now works for a top automobile company in Nigeria.
Macwen says men at work were initially dismissive. “Actually, at first, the male were feeling, ‘You can’t do it, that it’s our world.’ But we made them realize — I made them realize — we can do it. I want other ladies to take up the opportunities. Go out. When you have a flair for something, go in for it,” she says. “Don’t let anybody tell you you can’t do it. You can do it.”
Photo: Ofeibea Quist-Arcton/NPR
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hello everyone i appear to have just purchased a globe from 1951
I have no excuse for this but do you really think I would find a globe in the...
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Just some elderly Germans playing Cards Against Humanity.
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Essential reading/viewing: Arianna Huffington on redefining success.
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