Category Archives: General

Originally posted on Brasil! Pra mim . . .:
Across the road and down the hill from where we live is a comunidade or favela. On weekends the sounds can be heard thumping and echoing throughout the night. For me it’s like the…

Originally posted on theproverbial.org:
On the south-west edge of the Sao Paulo connurbation, Embu maintains an identity distinct from the urban sprawl of its enormous neighbour. The centro histórico is a series of cobbled streets with brightly painted stuccoed houses,…

Originally posted on BING BANG POUF:
Here is a short video of the graduation project of Daniel Disselkoen, at the Royal Academy of Arts (UK). A very simple and fun way to upgrade a boring bus/tramway ride. For four years, each day…

Originally posted on physics4me:
Spin is angular momentum, quantized into discrete units such as +1 and -1 In the original Karate Kid movie, the kid who wants to learn karate is frustrated by his teacher’s insistence that he spend…

Originally posted on my blogging London life:
Today I planned to see the new James Bond film Skyfall after work, with some friends. Apparently Bond is very popular (who knew? 🙂 ) and  sold out, everywhere (almost). Anywho, I took…

Originally posted on Joe Blogs / JVB:
Its good to be busy at work, but it does mean that long involved posts are proving rather challenging to research & write up… So in lieu of a proper post full of opinion…

Originally posted on TwistedSifter:
  David Zinn has been creating original artwork in and around Ann Arbor, Michigan since 1987. He’s a self-taught artist with a B.A. in Creative Writing and English Language from the Residential College of the University…