January 2012
83 posts
Watchtheatlanticvideo:
Fauna: The Hidden, Beautiful World of Manatees
Sirenia Shadows captures the slow-moving grace of Florida’s most unlikely aquatic stars, West Indian manatees. The animals, of the order sirenia, evolved from four-legged mammals and weigh between 440 and 1,300 pounds, swimming at an average speed of three to five miles per hour. This beautifully shot film was created by Paul...
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“She did the Secretary of State job, she was a G, she held it down, she didn’t...”
– Ice-T, on why Hillary Clinton will be the first female president (via jessbennett)
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“It seems the department still considers the potato a second-class vegetable.”
– A spokesman for the National Potato Council, irked that — despite a failed USDA attempt to limit potato use in new school lunch guidelines — potatoes are still passed over in favor of greener, leafier vegetables. (via bencrair)
This is a Potato Appreciation Post.
(via buzzfeed)
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“In almost every recession and economic downturn that we have had in this...”
– ProPublica investigative reporter Michael Grabell on the 2009 stimulus, the biggest economic recovery plan in history. (via nprfreshair)
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Watchthedailywhat:
In Case You Missed It of the Day: The second part of Stephen Colbert’s must-see sit-down with accidental-children’s-writer Maurice Sendak.
[colbertnation.]
See Also: Part 1.
Watchtheatlanticvideo:
Transit: A Photojournalist’s Quest to Tell the Stories of People on the Run
Espen Rasmussen, an Oslo-based photographer, has spent seven years documenting displaced people around the world for his Transit project, a multimedia work that includes photography, video, a website, and an exhibition at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo. The videos blend Rasmussen’s photographs and...
Watchtheatlanticvideo:
A Gorgeous Time-Lapse of Lighting Storms Over Africa From Space
This time-lapse shot from the International Space Station reveals the Milky Way as storms illuminate Africa below. The video is courtesy of the Crew Earth Observations group at NASA Johnson Space Center.
The Atlantic: The Zynga Abyss →
90wpm:
The Atlantic published an excerpt from my essay for Distance today. It’s a little over 1500 words, and covers some of the main points in the essay.
It also includes a fantastic photoshopped stock photo of a lab rat playing FarmVille in a Skinner box.
Here’s a small snip:
In the 1890s, while studying natural sciences at the University of Saint Petersburg, a Russian mathematician named...
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Watchwashingtonpoststyle:
Stephen Colbert interviews Maurice Sendak.
This is the greatest interview in the history of “The Colbert Report.” (Go to our actual tumblog if you have trouble watching on the dashboard.)
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“If his four-year-old daughter gets sick again, Chris Gorski will take a drastic...”
– The Poop Outlaws: At-Home Fecal Transplants to Cure Disease