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Mr. Rogers talks about drawing

These images are grabbed from episode 1481:

In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday talks to Miss Paulificate about an idea he has for a “Draw the Neighborhood Contest.”… Harriett Elizabeth Cow is not very excited about the contest because she says that everyone’s talents are different and art contests are very difficult to judge.

You can watch it on PBS.org or on Netflix.

(Thanks to my friend Frank Chimero for this.)

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"We’ve got to have more of this neighborhood expression of care…. I feel that if we in public television can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and manageable, we will have done a great service for mental health. I think that it’s much more dramatic that two men could be working out their feelings of anger—much more dramatic than showing something of gunfire. I’m constantly concerned about what our children are seeing, and for 15 years I have tried in this country and Canada, to present what I feel is a meaningful expression of care."

Fred Rogers 
Senate Statement of Public Television (May 1, 1969)

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Disability in the Age of Trump by Amanda Scurti

On growing up with a disabled family member, and having a President that won’t respect that

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Lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history.

Hannah Arendt: From an Interview

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Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data

Our world is saturated with bullshit. Learn to detect and defuse it.

Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release. Higher education rewards bullshit over analytic thought. Startup culture elevates bullshit to high art. Advertisers wink conspiratorially and invite us to join them in seeing through all the bullshit — and take advantage of our lowered guard to bombard us with bullshit of the second order. The majority of administrative activity, whether in private business or the public sphere, seems to be little more than a sophisticated exercise in the combinatorial reassembly of bullshit.

http://callingbullshit.org

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Work —Charlotte Day Wilson

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Animation by @Steve_Cutts for Moby

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Ludovico Einaudi performs an original piece "Elegy for the Arctic", on the Arctic Ocean to call for its protection, on June 17th, 2016

Through his music, acclaimed Italian composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi has added his voice to those of eight million people from across the world demanding protection for the Arctic. Einaudi performed one of his own compositions on a floating platform in the middle of the Ocean, against the backdrop of the Wahlenbergbreen glacier (in Svalbard, Norway). Travelling on board Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise on the eve of a significant event for the future of the Arctic: this week's meeting of the OSPAR Commission, which could secure the first protected area in Arctic international waters.

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Cars dance on highways, crowds of people wash across sidewalk shores. —from Conner Griffith, RISD Senior film - 2016

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Joe Riis has the job that every child in the world dreams of: He is a celebrated National Geographic wildlife photographer. He spends his life embarking on adventures to the wildest places on Earth, often for months on end, to observe and photograph animals for National Geographic Magazine. He seemingly has the picture perfect life. Or does he?

This film tells a more personal story of an oft idolized character to remind that even those who have achieved it all still face many of the struggles that everyone else does. It also celebrates how a man’s love for the wilderness has helped to further curiosity, respect and protection for the natural world around us.

from Andy Maser

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Annie Dillard’s Impossible Pages Three early and unpublished works by the author of “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/magazine/annie-dillards-impossible-pages.html?_r=1

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From the NY Times:

Unpublished Black History

Hundreds of stunning images from black history, drawn from old negatives, have long been buried in the musty envelopes and crowded bins of the New York Times archives.

None of them was published by The Times until now.

Were the photos — or the people in them — not deemed newsworthy enough? Did the images not arrive in time for publication? Were they pushed aside by words here at an institution long known as the Gray Lady?

As you scroll through the images, each will take you back: To the charred wreckage of Malcolm X’s house in Queens, just hours after it was bombed. To the Lincoln Memorial, where thousands of African-American protesters gathered, six years before the March on Washington. To Lena Horne’s elegant penthouse on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. To a city sidewalk where schoolgirls jumped rope, while the writer Zora Neale Hurston cheered them on, behind the scenes.

Photographers for The Times captured all of these scenes, but then the pictures and negatives were filed in our archives, where they sat for decades.

This month, we present a robust selection for the very first time.

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Through scientific study and understanding, we deepen our connection to the natural world.

An audiovisual collaboration by Kevin Dart // Stéphane Coëdel // David Kamp // Nelson Boles

PRESENTED IN 4K // ©MMXVI CHROMOSPHERE INC.

Watch a making of in “Painting Herons”

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“Sometimes they get angry and forget to use their words.”

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Russian and U.S. Airstrikes Show Differing Goals

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Rabbi Sacks on The Refugee Crisis: Time for Compassion to Triumph

“Europe is being tested as it has not been tested since the Second World War,” says Jonathan Sacks, the chief rabbi of the United Kingdom from 1991 to 2013.

Rabbi Sacks says Europe needs to make a bold gesture to help address Europe’s unfolding refugee crisis—something similar to Kindertransport, a series of rescue efforts that saved thousands of Jewish refugee children from the Nazis between 1938 and 1940.

Click through to listen here

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Where is the population of Europe actually growing and where is it declining? This map provides a picture of unprecedented detail, showing population growth in 119,406 municipalities from 43 European countries (including Turkey). The application uses data from the German Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) which published its analysis in June 2015 together with a map.

http://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/europakarte