Watch Marvel Director Taika Waititi’s clever new anti-racism PSA.
Human Rights Commission (New Zealand) “You may not be in a position to give much to racism, but whatever you feel comfortable giving will make a huge difference,” the director of the upcoming reassures his countrymen and –women. “You don’t have to be a full-on racist—just being a tiny bit racist is enough!” Framing the PSA as a plea to keep racism alive through small contributions is smart, and it’s a good, concise explanation of the way microaggressions can add up to a completely toxic culture.
self drive & electric vehicles will change whole world
Let’s get right to the punch line: a very strong case can be made, and will be below, that within 15 years virtually all vehicular traffic in the US will be by autonomous electric vehicles (A-EVs). And that in turn will fundamentally change how our society works, largely for the better — if we don’t blow the transition, that is. Because that statement has such profound implications, let’s unpack it bit by bit. EV’s are cheaper. Period.
Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)
* denotes top ten title Alexander Hamilton: The Graphic History of an American Founding Father. By Jonathan Hennessey. Illus.
Every day, man plants trees in same spot. 37 years later, his masterpiece takes our breath away
The young teenager Jadav “Molai” Payeng decided to help nature out a little bit and started planting trees over thirty years ago. He planted the seeds next to a very and deserted sandbar closely to his birthplace in the Assam region, India. Jadav wanted to create a habitat for wildlife and oppose people who were cutting trees down. Jadav later decided that he would dedicate his life to building his own forest and planting trees. For almost every day for 37 years, the man planted seeds and has successfully built a whole new ecosystem.
The Revolutionary Giant Ocean Cleanup Machine Is About To Set Sail
On a Wednesday afternoon in a sprawling lot on a former naval air station in Alameda, California, across the bay from San Francisco, workers are welding a massive black tube together. The tube–roughly the length of a football field–is one piece of a larger system that will set sail for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch this summer, where it will begin collecting some of the 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic trash brought there by ocean currents. Six years ago, the technology was only an idea presented at a TEDx talk.
The Hobbit: How a 10-Year-Old Boy Helped Unleash Tolkien Upon the World
Let’s start at the beginning, the place where Tolkien would want us to start if he were writing this article. Where did the idea for The Hobbit come from? According to Tolkien, in a letter written to W. H. Auden in 1955, he started crafting The Hobbit in the early-1930s when, on a whim, he wrote “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit” on the back of an exam he was grading.
The Secret Life of Trees: The Astonishing Science of What Trees Feel and How They Communicate
Trees dominate the world’s the oldest living organisms. Since the dawn of our species, they have been our silent companions, permeating our most enduring tales and never ceasing to inspire fantastical cosmogonies. Hermann Hesse called them “the most penetrating of preachers.” A forgotten seventeenth-century English gardener wrote of how they “speak to the mind, and tell us many things, and teach us many good lessons.” But trees might be among our lushest metaphors and sensemaking frameworks for knowledge precisely because the richness of what they say is more than metaphorical — they speak a sophisticated silent language, communicating complex information via smell, taste, and electrical impulses. This fascinating secret world of signals is what German forester Peter Wohlleben explores in The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate (public library).
Meet the People Planting Trees After Canada's Lumber Harvest
Luc Forsyth can’t decide which memories best illustrate the glorious hardship of his six seasons as a tree planter in Canada. Maybe it was his first day, when his crew leader told him to “deal with it” after hours of work in new boots had shredded his feet. Maybe it was years later, when his hands were so stiff after seemingly endless days of cold rain that he urinated on them in a desperate attempt to defrost himself. Or perhaps it was the many raucous nights in the nearest logging town, shooting pool and doing laundry with the rest of the planting crew, a group of strangers bonded by adversity.
Makerspace Starter Kit
The hot new Makerspace Movement is NOT new to Murray Hill Middle School. Eighteen years ago we designed and opened the school with the idea that we would have creation labs in the Media Center, GT room, and the TV studio. We started with video production, iMovie, Specular LogoMotion, Hyperstudio, and animation with Hollyood High kids. Here's an example of an EARLY (2003) video production called Bookfellas, featuring some Guy Ritchie-esque film direction techniques.
I am sorry
I am sorry You died last night. You were hit by a car at Howard & 7th in San Francisco when you were riding your bike through the intersection.
A Moment of Possibility and Peril – Bono
I know it’s unusual having a rock star hanging out at the UN Plaza but I’ll tell you what’s really unusual: having a load of ambassadors jumping up and down shouting their heads off at a rock and roll show. That is unusual, very unusual, and that’s what we had last night. At least you were not shouting at each other; I thought that was good. It is an honor for this troubadour to be in such esteemed company. I couldn’t be prouder to share the stage with this Taoiseach and this Tánaiste, who are, infuriatingly, younger than me — younger than the rock singer, and smarter!
7 Fiction Books That Will Light You On Fire – Personal Growth – Medium
Besides reading to feel, most of us read to learn. We want to know what we need to know when we need it, and so we keep pushing the number of books. Higher. One more.
There's a Word for That: 25 Expressions You Should Have in Your Vocabulary
Recently I came across this amazing little Tumblr named ‘OtherWordly‘ – itself a play on words. It consists of a collection of strange and lovely words from different languages through different times. What I like most about this selection of consonants and vowels – little meaning-carrying packages of vibration – is that they all try to point to the unspeakable, the transient or the neglected.
