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Photograph by Sue Ogrocki—AP
“I couldn’t hear the children,” Sue Ogrocki explains, “and every now and then, police or fire would ask people to stay quiet so they could listen for the kids still trapped.”
In the midst of the chaos and devastation that descended on Moore, Okla., one of the first photographers to the scene recounts the heroic moments of a community banding together.
Woman whose son was in elementary school says “his teacher saved his life…she lifted a wall off these kids.” - KFOR twitter.com/BuzzFeedAndrew…
— Andrew Kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) May 21, 2013
A young Isaac Asimov recites the Three Laws of Robotics
Stephen Colbert salutes UVA’s Class of 2013 Followed by this.
FUCKING THANK YOU.
(via rhetoricallyyours)
The Doors - Light My Fire
It may be Jim Morrison’s face on all of their work, but there was nothing like Ray Manzarek on keys. Playing piano bass parts with his left hand and the snake-like noodling of his right, he made every Doors song what it was.
Sleep well, Ray.
"The anti-drone argument that ‘Star Trek’ goes for most is not one having to do with due process or civilian or collateral casualties…but an essentially emotional one: they feel strange. It doesn’t seem right, or like a fair, forthright fight."
— Amy Davidson on “Star Trek” as a drone allegory: http://nyr.kr/13G1xxg (via newyorker)
I was thinking this at the time I was watching the film. Another thread arcing through was the idea that we create our own demons, becoming just like the “monsters” we wage war on in the process.
In this way, the latest Star Trek reflects a mirror on the social and political climate of today, much as the original did.
Sigur Rós - Ísjaki
Still a month until the album is released and with only two songs out so far, I’m totally okay with the change in sonic direction.
"The quicker we all realize that we’ve been taught how to live life by people that were operating on the momentum of an ignorant past the quicker we can move to a global ethic of community that doesn’t value invented borders or the monopolization of natural resources, but rather the goal of a happier more loving humanity."
— Joe Rogan (via sirmitchell)
(Source: cavemancircus.com, via sirmitchell)
All I give are little clues
Maybe one day I’ll get through
But there is nothing I can do
I’ll just keep on lying to you
I only need to say it’s true
Falling apart, I already knew
But there is nothing you can do
I’ll just keep on lying to you
Should my cover ever blow
Would you ever let it go?
There is something you should know
But hell if I’d ever let it show
So here I am, trying to be strong
It was noon, but now my shadow’s long
I guess I’ll go and tell you
Just as soon as I get to the end of this song
The curse has won again
Soon I’ll be alone
Take all you can
Please understand
It never really was love
Suitable for walking and judging.
(Source: Spotify)
Eruption of the Tvashtar volcano on Jupiter’s moon Io, photographed by New Horizons, 1 March 2007, during its gravity-assist Jupiter flyby on its way to Pluto. I’ve brightened the pictures so that some detail on the darker part of Io is clearer.
The gif covers about 8 minutes of real time. If you count pixels and look up Io’s diameter, it looks like the plume’s “only” being thrown up to an altitude of 200km or so. But in fact the volcano is in the opposite hemisphere to the one we see here (albeit at a high latitude of about 67 degrees), and the plumes are reaching a height of over 300km.
There is much more detail about this volcano at the Gish Bar Times blog.
Oh, you know, just a 300km high volcanic plume on another world. NBD.
The 7-year-old, second-grade student at Downtown Montessori Academy wrote a letter to Vice President Joe Biden and other officials a few months ago with a simple idea for making the world safer. His teacher Jenny Aicher says his letter suggested that if guns shot chocolate bullets, no one would get hurt.
Wisconsin boy gets handwritten response from Biden - Yahoo! News
I’m on board with chocolate guns.
Vampire Weekend Hannah Hunt
I can’t get enough of this song. Quickly getting into the ‘all time’ category.
