Category Archives: General

Sound Of Threads

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Can you hear the waves? – Nope, I see them.

Originally posted on lucidduplicity:
If you like the oscilloscope art attack linked earlier this week, you’ll probably feast on this. If you didn’t see it? That’s sick, look at this, its sound waves, visible sound waves (but but but they’re…

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Bean there, done that: 10 places you need to drink coffee in Manchester

Originally posted on Keith Andrew:
Something’s happening in Manchester. Up here, at the core of what the London glitterati somewhat sneeringly refer to as the ‘Northern Powerhouse’, the people of this city are staying up late, dealing with constant headaches…

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Goats

Originally posted on What's left of my life:
Brazil Goat Carts In the praça in Petrópolis north of Rio de Janeiro kids can have rides in a goat cart. Taken in 1997 with my Nikon FM and zoom.

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An Open Letter of Love to Black Students: #BlackLivesMatter

Originally posted on Black Space:
Black students and professors, Beaumont Tower, Michigan State University, December 6, 2014. photo by Darryl Quinton Evans ? We are Black professors. We are daughters, sons, brothers, sisters, cousins, nieces, nephews, godchildren, grandfathers, grandmothers, fathers,…

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The Offering (A History of Jacke in 100 Objects #26)

Originally posted on Jacke Wilson:
And then something happened that changed everything. I wish I could start the story that way, because that’s how it felt when it happened: startling, vivid, breathtakingly transformative. Even now it makes my heart race,…

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Last Wish: Noel Rosa’s Samba

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Brazil’s torture report moved its president—a torture survivor—to tears

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Oil Prices: Who win and who loses? What about Brazil?

Originally posted on EconoToon:
The plummeting oil costs are affecting the world in two different ways, for exporters this is serious loss of profitability (Saudi Arabia, Russia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Nigeria…), and for importers (USA, China, Japan, India, South…

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CIA torture report and corporate media

Originally posted on Dear Kitty. Some blog:
This video from the USA says about itself: Torture Report Causes Awesome Eruption From Fox News Anchor 10 December 2014 “That the CIA used interrogation methods on detainees that bordered on torture isn’t…

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