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The Equal Justice Initiative is building a memorial for lynching victims — and it’s about time.

The Equal Justice Initiative announced on Tuesday that it will build the first-ever national memorial to lynching victims in Montgomery, Alabama. Titled “Memorial to Peace and Justice,” the EJI project will sit on six acres of land that used to be a public housing project in Montgomery. 

The structure will include the thousands of lynching victims’ names on concrete columns, which will represent hundreds of U.S. counties where the acts took place. The memorial will also coincide with the opening of a museum.

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Chris Tate Architecture. Tent House. Waiheke Island. New Zeland. photos: Simon Devitt Photographer

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DeWitt Godfrey, Pamplona (2006)

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John Hejduk: Cathedral.  Published in K. Michael Hays, Sanctuaries, Whitney Museum, New York. 2002.

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Picture Room - Soane Museum

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Kéré Architecture’s Camper Pop-Up Inside the Vitra Campus Geodesic Dome

Architect Diébédo Francis Kéré, born in Burkina Faso and based in Berlin, has created a temporary retail space for shoe brand Camper inside Buckminster Fuller’s dome at the Vitra Campus in Germany. The double-ring structure was constructed to coincide with the Making Africa exhibition at the nearby Vitra Design Museum, in which the architect’s work is featured, and the Camper: Life on Foot exhibition at London’s Design Museum. Kéré, renowned for his cross-cultural approach to architecture, is also participating in the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial this fall. 

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(via Atelier Yokyok installs vaulted string tunnels in cloister garden)

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COPIC MARKER GIVEAWAY

Alright, so I bought all these Copics when I was in Japan years ago and have never, ever used them, so I thought someone else could treat them better.

All the Cool Greys (C0-C8) are Broad and Fine, and just about all the rest are Copic Sketch. You can see from the picture there’s a good range of color. I picked them all out according to a marker guide to get the most bang for my buck. There’s also two colorless blenders in there which are very slightly used.  Case / box isn’t included. Altogether there are about 90-95 markers (they were hard to count in just like this and I’m not taking the time to count exactly. count the photo if you want.)

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a note on shipping: I’m in the USA, if the cost is manageable (under $20) to outside the US, I’ll do my best to cover it, but if it’s a high cost, I might ask you to kick me a few $ to cover it. we’ll see. 

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Richard Serra

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First Images of Peter Zumhtor’s Zinc Mine Project in Norway.

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Japanese artist Tanaka Tatsuya creates miniature diorama for daily calendar since 2011. His artwork titled “miniature calendar” depicts diorama-style toy people with household items, including food and vegetables. He updates his calendar-website daily with a fresh and playful image, infused with his creative imagination. Enjoy some of the awesome images.

Everyone must have had similar thoughts at least once. Broccoli and parsley might sometimes look like a forest, or the tree leaves floating on the surface of the water might sometimes look like little boats. Everyday occurrences seen from a pygmy’s perspective can bring us lots of fun thoughts.

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Behold the breathtaking art installation “Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red” by artist Paul Cummins and stage designer Tom Piper.

When it’s done, the installation will adorn the Tower of London with 888,246 Ceramic Poppies in honor of those who lost their lives in WWI. http://petapixel.com/2014/08/02/breathtaking-photos-tower-london-adorned-888246-ceramic-poppies-commemorate-wwi/

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Inflatable concrete homes could be affordable housing’s newest hope. Read more.

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The Doorway Effect: Why your brain won’t let you remember what you were doing before you came in here

I work in a lab, and the way our lab is set up, there are two adjacent rooms, connected by both an outer hallway and an inner doorway. I do most of my work on one side, but every time I walk over to the other side to grab a reagent or a box of tips, I completely forget what I was after. This leads to a lot of me standing with one hand on the freezer door and grumbling, “What the hell was I doing?” It got to where all I had to say was “Every damn time” and my labmate would laugh. Finally, when I explained to our new labmate why I was standing next to his bench with a glazed look in my eyes, he was able to shed some light. “Oh, yeah, that’s a well-documented phenomenon,” he said. “Doorways wipe your memory.”

Being the gung-ho new science blogger that I am, I decided to investigate. And it’s true! Well, doorways don’t literally wipe your memory. But they do encourage your brain to dump whatever it was working on before and get ready to do something new. In one study, participants played a video game in which they had to carry an object either across a room or into a new room. Then they were given a quiz. Participants who passed through a doorway had more trouble remembering what they were doing. It didn’t matter if the video game display was made smaller and less immersive, or if the participants performed the same task in an actual room—the results were similar. Returning to the room where they had begun the task didn’t help: even context didn’t serve to jog folks’ memories.

The researchers wrote that their results are consistent with what they call an “event model” of memory. They say the brain keeps some information ready to go at all times, but it can’t hold on to everything. So it takes advantage of what the researchers called an “event boundary,” like a doorway into a new room, to dump the old info and start over. Apparently my brain doesn’t care that my timer has seconds to go—if I have to go into the other room, I’m doing something new, and can’t remember that my previous task was antibody, idiot, you needed antibody.

Read more at Scientific American, or the original study.

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I finally learned why I completely space when I cross to the other side of the lab, and that I’m apparently not alone.

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this is actually kind of great and it’s nice to know there’s something behind that constant spacing out whenever i enter a different place

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FINALLY AN EXPLANATION

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This is brilliant. Thresholds are powerful.