20 5 / 2012
"If it was easy it would already exist"
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15 5 / 2012
Watch a brand new episode of The Cute Show! featuring these leaping, long-eared olympians this month on VICE.com.
Bunny rabbits are adorable enough when they’re just sitting there twitching their pink noses or lapping water up from their little bottles, but when they’re hopping over brightly colored fences like tiny, long-eared horses while their super-enthusiastic trainers cheer from the sidelines, it makes you wonder why rabbit show jumping isn’t on TV all the time. We recently spent the day at the Rabbit Grand National in Harrogate in Yorkshire, England, to witness this space-time-bending level of cuteness for ourselves. Show jumping tests bunnies’ speed and agility as they race down the course, dreaming of winning the big trophy or at least of getting treats when they finish. Pictured here is two-and-a-half-year-old bunny Cherie and her trainer, Magdelena, who says Cherie’s favorite things in the world are jumping, hay, and carrots (and probably fucking a whole bunch, if we know anything about rabbits). Cherie annihilated the competition, finishing the race in just 12.5 seconds! Way to go, Cherie!
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10 5 / 2012
"History is that certainly produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation."
25 4 / 2012
"亀岡で起きた交通事故の過剰報道が問題になっている。被害者を収容した但馬救命救急センターのブログでは、次のように各社の報道を強く批判している。
マスコミ各社の記者たちは霊安室の前にカメラをかまえ，お帰りになるご家族の映像を勝手に撮影していました．再三にわたって取材はお断りの旨を伝えていたにもかかわらず，一番大切にしたい瞬間に，ズカズカと土足で割り込んできました．ご家族，医療者，関係者の心情を考えられないくらいマスコミの人間の心は腐っているのでしょうか．"
20 4 / 2012
Tumblr Tuesday: Earth Week Edition
Join me in celebrating Earth’s natural environment with these fully compostable and biodegradable Tumblr blogs! Photo of Beaver Brook by Noah Kalina.
Climate Adaptation
Michael Cote is an environmental expert who wants to punch climate change in the face.The Green Urbanist
Green urbanism and environmental public policy.Local Food Lab
An incubator for sustainable food and agriculture startups.Fuck Yeah Permaculture
Working with nature, rather than against it, for sustainable systems.Cabin Porn
Inspiration for your quiet place somewhere.Weather Boner of the Day
Photos of weather. Awesome weather.Check out the Sustainability Spotlight for more!
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11 4 / 2012
The Clemson Clay Nest was a public land art installation by Bavarian artist Nils-Udo that was constructed in the botanical gardens at Clemson University in South Carolina in 2005.
ed: Totally impressive. Found via Poler’s blog. They’re new friends of Things Organized Neatly. Check ‘em out!
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11 4 / 2012
WAVES UNDERWATER
An amazing underwater shot by Vince Cavataio - Printscapes.
(出典: pinterest.com)
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08 4 / 2012
"機能集団（例えば財務省）の機能的要請（例えば財政再建）は絶対視され、それを遂行するための技術（すなわち消費税増税）は、社会分業における役割遂行の手段とはみなされず、日本国存立のための条件として、物心的に崇拝されるにいたる。
したがって、この技術発揚という神聖なる任務遂行を妨害するものは、許すべからざる国賊か、少なくともあわれむべき無知の徒であるということになる"
08 4 / 2012
"このような人々（官僚）は、分業の部品としてみる限り最高の部品である。しかし、ひとたび全体のリーダーとなるや、最悪のリーダーとなる。けだし彼らは、限定された分業の遂行者としての視座しか持ち合わせないため、全体的コンテクストにおいて、すべてのフィードバックを総合することはできないから、リーダーとしては最悪のリーダーとなる。"
03 4 / 2012
LIQUID DIAMONDS
The angular cuts in the glass of these bottles really is a cool effect…it makes the liquid look priceless. What a great design.
(出典: adayinthelandofnobody)
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02 4 / 2012
Brontosaurus
Mounted skeleton was on display at the American Museum of Natural History
Reconstruction by Charles Knight
When: Holocene (1879 to 1903)
Where: Scientific literature and museums on the east coast of the USA. Found even today in public consciousness and outdated dinosaur books.
What: Brontosaurus is perhaps the most well known of the sauropod dinosaurs. Too bad it never really existed! The history of this name and why it became so popularized starts in 1877 when the paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh applied the name Apatosaurus to a sauropod specimen. This specimen was not very complete and mostly represented by vertebrae and a pelvis. Two years later he erected the name Brontosaurus based on an almost complete skeleton that was missing its head. Headless sauropod skeletons are fairly common, but in this case this missing head only served to make the story even more complicated.
This missing head was obviously a problem when the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale wanted to mount its specimen of Brontosaurus for display. There was great debate over which head to use, which some camps wanting to use one that resembled Diplodocus but others rallied behind a Brachiosaurus type skull. This latter skull was what Marsh had envisioned in his publications on Brontosaurus, so after much heated debate a Brachiosaurus type skull was attached to the previously headless skeleton. This skeleton was unveiled to the public in 1905 to great fanfare and soon after the American Museum of Natural History in New York City had its own Brontosaurus on display, with an identical head to the Yale specimen.
So the general public had a firm concept of the dinosaur Brontosaurus! It was an easy to remember and pronounce name, this is what it looked like, and hey look we even have all of these lovely reconstruction showing these great lumbering beasts in prehistoric swamps. Too bad everything was wrong. And even worse, it was KNOWN to be wrong by some workers who were shouted down by others. In 1903, two years before the specimen was mounted at Yale, a paper was published Elmer Riggs at the Field Museum of Chicago that declared that the bones known for Apatosaurus that overlapped with those of Brontosaurus showed that these two animals were the same. He concluded that Brontosaurus was not a valid name as it was two years younger than Apatosaurus. Even worse, remember the great head debate? Totally wrong. Later fossil finds have confirmed that a Diplodocus style head should have been used. These skulls are much more elongated and flatter than the high domed skull that was used for the Brontosaurus mount.
So not only is the name not valid, but the anatomy of the animal isn’t even anything that ever existed in nature! It is a chimera of different species. Also sauropods were not aquatic swamp dwellers, they were 100% terrestrial creatures.
Poor Brontosaurus.
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