Stephany Kim

28 ♡ Knowledge, reading, art and the universe. 🖤 May we all learn from each other and become our own being. Find yourself. Think for yourself.

[archaeologicalnews]

Hand and footprint art dates to mid-Ice Age

An international collaboration has identified what may be the oldest work of art, a sequence of hand and footprints discovered on the Tibetan Plateau. The prints date back to the middle of the Pleistocene era, between 169,000 and 226,000 years ago – three to four times older than the famed cave paintings in Indonesia, France and Spain.

To answer the question, “is it art?” the team turned to Thomas Urban, research scientist in the College of Arts and Sciences and with the Cornell Tree Ring Laboratory.

“The question is: What does this mean? How do we interpret these prints? They’re clearly not accidentally placed,” said Urban, a co-author of the paper, “Earliest Parietal Art: Hominin Hand and Foot Traces from the Middle Pleistocene of Tibet,” published Sept. 10 in Science Bulletin. Read more.

[cluboftigerghost]

[70sscifiart]

Ed Emshwiller

[meineluft]

“Live your own truth and it won’t matter how many lies they tell about you. The truth will prove itself.”

— Tony Gaskins

[desertfiredance]

[noping-out-deactivated20241117]

Do people not actually know what’s happening here? Or do conservatives just throw out their brain when they join the party?

This is an N95 mask with a hospital mask over the top. The N95 mask filters out particles. It protects the person wearing it. It has an exhale valve, so people who aren’t assholes (and know what they’re doing) wear another mask over the top to protect other people, in case they unknowingly have COVID-19. Anyone who’s been to see a medical professional in person this year would have seen them wearing exactly this combination of masks.

This is the mask combination worn by someone who knows their science and cares about the health of the people they come into contact with.

[punkrorschach]

It also allows for the top (less hard to get and more disposable) mask to be switched out regularly while keeping the N95 on consistantly, which helps prevent germs from being spread even more! 

[khaleeseas]

^ exactly what they said. as someone who’s been a bedside nurse through the entire pandemic.....this is what we wear almost daily. an N95 that we are to use multiple times with a new surgical mask every shift worn over it.

[70sscifiart]

Paul Lehr

[70sscifiart]

Paul Lehr

[taudalpoi]

Bridge To Fantasy Land.

Digital collage by me.

[hogtown-gdc]

[medusakim]

Why brain? Why?

[ramirezbundydahmer]

When the Nazi concentration camps were liberated by the Allies, it was a time of great jubilation for the tens of thousands of people incarcerated in them. But an often forgotten fact of this time is that prisoners who happened to be wearing the pink triangle (the Nazis’ way of marking and identifying homosexuals) were forced to serve out the rest of their sentence. This was due to a part of German law simply known as “Paragraph 175” which criminalized homosexuality. The law wasn’t repealed until 1969.

[crypto-keynesian]

This should be required learning, internationally. 

[stripedsilverfeline]

You need to know this. You need to remember this. This is not something to swept under the carpet nor be forgotten. 

Never. Too many have died for the way they have loved. That needs stop now. 

Make it stop? 

[hollowoutmybody]

I did a report on this in my World History class my sophomore year of high school. It was incredibly unsettling.

[pearlclam]

My teacher shown the class this. Mostly everyone in the class felt uncomfortable. 

[sashadechagny]

I have reblogged this in the past, but it is so ironic that it comes across my dash right now. I a currently working as a docent at my city’s Holocaust Education Center (( I say currently because I’ve also done research and translation for them )) and out current exhibit is one on loan from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ((USHMM)). This is a little known historical fact that Paragraph 175 was not repealed after the war and those convicted under Nazi laws as a danger to society because they were gay were not released because they had be convicted in a court of law. There was no liberation or justice for them as they weren’t considered criminals, or even victims for that matter. They were criminals who remained persecuted and ostracized and kept on the fringes of society for decades after the war had been won. Paragraph175 wasn’t actually repealed until 1994. And it was only in May 2002, that the German parliament completed legislation to pardon all homosexuals convicted under Paragraph175 during the Nazi era. History has forgotten about these men and women — please educate yourselves so this does not happen again. Remember this history. Remember them.

[jehovahhthickness]

@mindlesshumor ok how the fuck did I miss this when I’ve studied The Holocaust like nobody’s business??? wtf

[thereadersmuse]

Because the history we have left regarding it is literally the contents of this first hand account.

It is a thin little book.

When I first opened it, I wondered why it was so thin.

Why there wasn’t other books like it.

Other first hand accounts.

By the time I finished it, I didn’t wonder anymore.

[jeaniefranklins]

Further reading:

I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual: A Memoir of Nazi Terror by Pierre Seel

An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin by Gad Beck

The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals by Richard Plant

Branded By The Pink Triangle by Ken Setterington

Bent by Martin Sherman (fiction; however, it’s often credited with bringing attention to gay Holocaust victims for the first time since the war ended)

[gemfyre]

This is one of the memorial sculptures in Dachau.  It was erected in the early 60s and is missing the pink triangles.  Because in the early 60s, homosexuality was still a crime in most of the world. Our tour guide explained why the pink triangles have not been added later - if they were, then folks would assume that they had always been there.  This way people ask “why aren’t there pink triangles?” and somebody can explain why - because in some ways, the rest of the world was as bass-ackwards as Nazi Germany.

[freefalasteen]

Apparently, this wasnt taught in schools in the 70s-80s, cuz when I mentioned it to my mom, she had no idea that gays were held in concentration camps. She thought it was just jewish people.

[gotraveling]

Montreal // Quebec // Canada

- by Ryan Jackman

Expo 67’s American Pavilion Designed by Buckminster Fuller now serves as Montreal’s Biosphere

[danismm]

“The Geodesic Dome” by Buckminster Fuller, 1954

[motivational]

The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow. -R. Buckminster Fuller

#quotes — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2D8c7qP

[noosphe-re]

Up to the Twentieth Century, reality was everything humans could touch, smell, see, and hear. Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality. Ninety-nine percent of all that is going to affect our tomorrows is being developed by humans using instruments and working in ranges of reality that are nonhumanly sensible.

R. Buckminster Fuller on Education, R. Buckminster Fuller (via inthenoosphere)

[robertogreco]

Buckminster Fuller’s Grave, Jason Church

[robertogreco]

Buckminster Fuller’s Grave, Jason Church

[capitolcouture]

Future Architecture: Made in the Shade

Smart structures artfully deflect sunlight and extreme heat.

by Steffie Nelson

  The Capitol isn’t the only city obsessed with design that flatters the natural elements. At any time during the given day, you might see more than 1,000 star-shaped devices opening and closing like parasols on the “smart skinned” Al Bahar Towers in Abu Dhabi. Imagine a skyscraper winking at the sun. Completed this year, the awe-inducing buildings were designed to monitor sunlight and temperature and adjust accordingly—so much easier than raising and lowering the blinds! The 25-story structures, headquarters of the Abu Dhabi Investment Council and designed by firm Aedas, feature computer-controlled sunshades that allow the buildings to both utilize natural light and stay cool during the peak hours of afternoon sun.

Although the system may be state-of-the-art, it actually takes its inspiration from an ancient Arabic design feature, the mashrabiya, a latticework window screen that offers shade and encourages airflow in desert dwellings. And the Al Bahar Towers aren’t the first modern urban buildings to employ the principles of the exotic and beautiful mashrabiya: Jean Nouvel’s Institut du Monde Arabe, built in 1987 in Paris, incorporates light-sensitive geometric apertures that provide shade and create stunning floor-to-ceiling kaleidoscopic patterns inside. Today, many contemporary architects in the Middle East are returning to such time-tested methods of “passive cooling.”

Looking ahead, already in the prototype stage are self-ventilating metal alloys and buildings powered by photovoltaic cells embedded in their architecture—as opposed to solar panels stuck on the roof. Studio Gang’s Solar Carve Tower, a skyscraper planned for 2015 along New York City’s High Line park, will harness the sun’s rays in a different way, reflecting them back on the park and the streets below.

With a faceted glass façade that narrows toward the base, the Solar Carve’s design is intended to allow for unobstructed Hudson River views and uninterrupted sunbathing. It’s unclear whether any rays will catch that other High Line institution, the Standard Hotel, but surely its notoriously exhibitionistic guests would welcome another chance to shine.