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"the people on the Titanic overlooked the possibility that the iceberg could have been their..."

Tue, 22 May 2012 15:53:32 +0100

“the people on the Titanic overlooked the possibility that the iceberg could have been their lifeboat. Newspapers from the time estimated the size of the iceberg to be between 50-100 feet high and 200-400 feet long. Titanic was navigable for awhile and could have pulled aside the iceberg. Many people could have climbed aboard it to find flat places to stay out of the water for the four hours before help arrived.”

- Why We Can’t See What’s Right in Front of Us - Tony McCaffrey - Harvard Business Review

(via What a Physics Student Can Teach Us About How Visitors Walk...

Mon, 21 May 2012 11:07:31 +0100

(via What a Physics Student Can Teach Us About How Visitors Walk Through a Museum | Articulations)

(via Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80...

Wed, 16 May 2012 16:28:17 +0100

(via Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR)

aron: Vim Introduction Best Vim introduction I’ve read so far in that it just gives you a...

Mon, 14 May 2012 11:12:33 +0100

aron:

Vim Introduction
Best Vim introduction I’ve read so far in that it just gives you a list of really useful commands.

(via Living Grass Walls Completely Cover the Interior of...

Wed, 09 May 2012 15:09:10 +0100

(via Living Grass Walls Completely Cover the Interior of London’s Dilston Grove Gallery! | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building)

(via Japanese Tsunami Debris Adds to Pacific Garbage Patch |...

Thu, 03 May 2012 19:41:30 +0100

(via Japanese Tsunami Debris Adds to Pacific Garbage Patch | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building)

Blond hair evolved independently of European genes

Thu, 03 May 2012 19:19:36 +0100

Blond hair evolved independently of European genes

(via Ghost Ship Spotted Off Coast of Canada Signaling Arrival of...

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 22:14:35 +0100

(via Ghost Ship Spotted Off Coast of Canada Signaling Arrival of Tsunami Wreckage | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building)

Christopher Hitchens on The Baader Meinhof Complex | Politics | Vanity Fair

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 11:22:39 +0100

Christopher Hitchens on The Baader Meinhof Complex | Politics | Vanity Fair

"the former missionary discovers that the language these people speak doesn’t follow one of the..."

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:26:58 +0100

“the former missionary discovers that the language these people speak doesn’t follow one of the fundamental tenets of linguistics, a finding that would seem to turn the field on its head, undermine basic assumptions about how children learn to communicate, and dethrone the discipline’s long-reigning king, who also happens to be among the most well-known and influential intellectuals of the 20th century”

- Researcher’s Findings in the Amazon Pit Him Against Noam Chomsky - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

” After two or three seconds of puzzling, I realized that...

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:50:34 +0000

” After two or three seconds of puzzling, I realized that the third symbol is another Chinese character written upside down and backwards” (via Language Log » Queen of the World)

"If you try to roll up the rainbow to make a color wheel, there will be a gap between red and violet...."

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:33:28 +0000

“If you try to roll up the rainbow to make a color wheel, there will be a gap between red and violet. That’s where all of the rest of the light in the universe is supposed to go—radio waves, microwaves, infrared, ultraviolet, x-rays, gamma rays and so on. But since we can’t see any of those wavelengths, we replace all of that hidden grandeur with pink.”

- Stop this Absurd War on the Color Pink | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network

Did the Titanic Sink Because of an Optical Illusion? | Science & Nature | Smithsonian Magazine

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 10:55:54 +0000

Did the Titanic Sink Because of an Optical Illusion? | Science & Nature | Smithsonian Magazine:

An unusual optical phenomenon explains why the Titanic struck an iceberg and received no assistance from a nearby ship, according to new research by British historian Tim Maltin. Atmospheric conditions in the area that night were ripe for super refraction, Maltin found. This extraordinary bending of light causes miraging, which, he discovered, was recorded by several ships in the area.

Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Did-the-Titanic-Sink-Because-of-an-Optical-Illusion.html#ixzz1oKiCwu87

Driftwood Service > Port of London

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:26:26 +0000

Driftwood Service > Port of London:

“More than 500 tonnes of assorted rubbish - from plastic bottles and traffic cones to shopping trolleys and bicycles – “migrates” into the River Thames each year and is cleared by the PLA’s driftwood crews.”

"On many ships thousands of workers below deck work often 7 days a week, sometimes for fourteen hours..."

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 10:44:06 +0000

“

On many ships thousands of workers below deck work often 7 days a week, sometimes for fourteen hours a day. They are paid two to three dollars a day - depending entirely on tips to earn a living wage. The work most of them are asked to do on their shifts is impossible for one person to complete, so they in turn have to pay others to help them.

And a weird underground economy often results.

”

- BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: WE’RE ALL IN THE SAME BOAT - AREN’T WE?

"I particularly love the “midnight buffet”. At midnight the doors to a vast restaurant..."

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 10:42:59 +0000

“I particularly love the “midnight buffet”. At midnight the doors to a vast restaurant open and passengers stream in to gorge themselves on elaborate food sculptures, while one of the staff stands above them with a microphone telling them over the speakers the amazing statistics of how much they are consuming on a voyage.”

- BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: WE’RE ALL IN THE SAME BOAT - AREN’T WE?

A bizarre cruise lined company’s mission statement (via...

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 10:41:07 +0000

A bizarre cruise lined company’s mission statement (via BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: WE’RE ALL IN THE SAME BOAT - AREN’T WE?)

(via BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: WE’RE ALL IN THE SAME BOAT -...

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 10:40:06 +0000

(via BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: WE’RE ALL IN THE SAME BOAT - AREN’T WE?)

History of Ashanti Kente Cloth

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:50:58 +0000

History of Ashanti Kente Cloth

(via Stool [Ghana; Akan] (1986.478.2) | Heilbrunn Timeline of...

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:22:23 +0000

(via Stool [Ghana; Akan] (1986.478.2) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art). Treasured items were posted into the hole in the middle giving the stool a life beyond furniture