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Dana Nuccitelli: A report from America’s 3rd-largest bank asks why we’re not transitioning to a low-carbon economy
Always thought a market led solution would be the big step change. Lots of great driving forces making this come true now
Obama: Climate Change Urgent and Growing Threat
President Barack Obama warned Monday that climate change is no longer a problem of the future, but rather a challenge for now and one that will define the next century.
Describing the “urgent and growing” threat that was not being addressed quick enough, Obama sketched the problems already facing people living in one of America’s last wilderness frontiers.
The challenge “will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other,” he told a conference in Anchorage, before a scheduled visit to a glacier.
Read more of his speech here
10 facts you should know about Vincent van Gogh
1. Vincent van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in Holland. He was named after his grandfather and his stillborn brother who died one year before Van Gogh was born.
2. Van Gogh was 27 years old when he painted his first piece.
3. When Van Gogh first began painting, he used peasants as models. He would later paint flowers, landscapes and himself, mostly because he was too poor to pay the models.
4. Van Gogh suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy, a chronic neurological condition characterized by recurrent, unprovoked seizures.
5. In a short period of ten years, Van Gogh made approximately 900 paintings.
6. During one of his seizures, Van Gogh attempted to attack his friend Paul Gauguin with an open razor. This ultimately resulted in Vincent cutting off a piece of his own ear – but not the whole ear as is often rumored.
7. Van Gogh created his most famous work The Starry Night while staying in an asylum in Saint-Remy-de-Provence, France.
8. Vincent Van Gogh visually depicted turbulence, an incredibly complex (and still unsolved) mathematical principle in several paintings during a particularly chaotic time in his life.
9. Vincent shot himself in a wheatfield in Auvers, France, but did not die until 2 days later at the age of 37. His brother Theo, at his side when he died, said that Vincent’s last words were “La tristesse durera toujours” which means “the sadness will last forever.”
10. Vincent only sold one painting during his lifetime and only became famous after his death.
Happy Birthday, Vincent van Gogh.
From the TED-Ed Lesson The unexpected math behind Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” - Natalya St. Clair
Animation by Avi Ofer
This is one of those posts where I find myself at a strange intersection among several seemingly unrelated articles. Jonathan Rees warns us that "The 'flipped classroom' is professional suicide." A...
Big math news! It’s been thirty years since mathematicians last found a convex pentagon that could “tile the plane.” The latest discovery (by Jennifer McLoud-Mann, Casey Mann, and David Von Derau) was published earlier this month. Full story.
What can we learn from MoMA’s collection data? FiveThirtyEight takes a look.
During the heyday of Second Life, numerous universities set up their own online campuses in the virtual world, which have slowly become ghost towns—and artifacts of an earlier digital era.
If you couldn’t tell already, NASA is having a great year. From Pluto to food grown in space, even in the face of budget cuts, the nation’s space agency had some stellar highlights. Most mysteriously of all, a spacecraft found two eerily bright lights on a distant dwarf planet.
Free PDF Books on race, gender, sexuality, class, and culture
Found from various places online:
The Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
Angela Y. Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Y. Davis - Race, Women, and Class
The Communist Manifesto - Marx and Engels
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde (link updated 1/14)
Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
Critical Race Theory: An Introduction by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic (link updated 1/14)
The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America- Robert M. Entman and Andrew Rojecki (link updated 1/14)
Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism - bell hooks (link updated 1/14)
Feminism is for Everybody - bell hooks (link updated 1/14)
Faces at the Bottom of the Well - Derrick Bell
I am Your Sister - Audre Lorde (link updated 1/14)
Black Feminist Thought-Patricia Hill Collins (updated 1/14)
Gender Trouble - Judith Butler
Four books by Frantz Fanon
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Medical Apartheid - Harriet Washington
Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory - edited by Michael Warner
Colonialism/Postcolonialism - Ania Loomba (updated 1/14)
Discipline and Punish - Michel Foucault
The Gloria Anzaldua Reader
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher
This Bridge Called by Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa
What is Cultural Studies? - John Storey (updated 1/14)
Cultural Theory and Popular Culture - John Storey (updated 1/14)
The Disability Studies Reader (updated 1/14)
Michel Foucault - Interviews and Other Writings
Michel Foucault - The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3
Michel Foucault - The Archeology of Knowledge
This blog also has a lot more.
(Sorry they aren’t organized very well.)
to all of you who reblog that NASA being stupid thing
here ya go
the gentle indifference of the world; a playlist for Mersault, from Albert Camus’s “The Stranger
“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
1. The Passenger - Iggy Pop. 2. I’m Only You - Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians. 3. Summersong - the Decemberists. 4. Insight - Joy Division. 5. Nowhere Man - the Beatles. 6. My Marie - Vernon Geyer. 7. Vienna - Ultravox. 8. Someone Keeps Moving My Chair - They Might Be Giants. 9. Love - Robyn Hitchcock. 10. The Mercy Seat - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. 11. Asleep - the Smiths. 12. Ready to Die - the Unicorns.
“Nothing, nothing mattered, and I knew why….Throughout the whole absurd life I’d lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across years that were still to come, and as it passed, this wind leveled whatever was offered to me at the time, in years no more real than the ones I was living.”
If you were alone on a desert island and there were no more world and no more people, would you go on writing? Supposing I had the pen and paper, I probably would.
Lydia Davis (via theparisreview)
Gertrude O'Brady (American-Italian, 1903 - 1978)
Portrait of Jean Cocteau, 1947
This reminds me of that one Cartier-Bresson photograph of Camus
Still Life with Kant and Descartes, 1998. Jacob Collins.Oil on canvas
Composer: Erik Satie (1866 - 1925)
Work: Air à faire fuir I from Pièces froides (1897)
Perfomer: Reinbert De Leeuw
Future thinking
Had to fill out a form. I don’t believe that I may get my PhD in a few years. Like, it doesn’t seem real. I’m just going to eat my toast and avoid future thinking for a few more moments.
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
Work: Andante con moto from Piano Trio Nr. 2 (1827)
Performer: Trio Fontenay
As requested by nadaatef
