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Mugshots of John Coltrane (18 years old) and Jack Kerouac (20 years old), enlisting for the US Naval Reserve.
Credits go to Open Culture, read the story on Coltrane here and Kerouac’s here.
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Color photos of Paris around 1914.
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The world’s best footballers in the form of a periodic table.
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Patent drawing for the Fisher Anti-Gravity Pen, a.k.a. the NASA “space pen” that popular legend says the Russians outsmarted with a mere pencil.
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British coins can be assembled into Royal coat of arms. Nicely designed.
Screw Philosophy. How does it all really work?
Lazy Philosophy is a blog which attempts to make philosophy entertaining as well as intellectually satisfying. Until now it has worked very well and I read it every single day. Today, the writer makes a worthwhile detour and talks about String Theory.
String Theory supposedly tell us that the most basic particles of the universe aren’t quarks but tiny strings of vibrating energy. Check out the video, it’s worth your precious time.
Here at Lazy Philosophy we do enjoy the occasional philosophical epiphany that a great text can produce. But scientific vulgarization also has a great ability to blow philosophical minds by taking them into the secrets of our Universe.
Don’t be put off by the childish form of the video, because that bearded guy will blow your mind for certain by taking you into the microscopic world.
However, if you want the full experience, watch Brian Green’s Elegant Universe documentary about the evolution of our understanding of the Universe from Einstein to String theory. You will come out a changed human being. http://youtu.be/UV_X2B5OK1I
Here’s a taster from the first part; and it only gets better.
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How to tell directions using your shadow, from a lovely vintage illustrated guide to maps and globes
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The 100 greatest sports photos of all time (no football – made by Sports Illustrated).
This is Muhammad Ali kocking out Cleveland Williams to defend his heavyweight title in November 1966.
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Where to be born in 2013, as calculated by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Its quality-of-life index links the results of subjective life-satisfaction surveys—how happy people say they are—to objective determinants of the quality of life across countries. Being rich helps more than anything else, but it is not all that counts; things like crime, trust in public institutions and the health of family life matter too. In all, the index takes 11 statistically significant indicators into account. They are a mixed bunch: some are fixed factors, such as geography; others change only very slowly over time (demography, many social and cultural characteristics); and some factors depend on policies and the state of the world economy.
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This is a microscopic landscape constructed using incredibly small chemicals:
A multiple (5) exposure of liquid crystalline DNA (the foreground), liquid crystalline xanthan gum (the mountains), liquid crystalline polybenzyl-L-glutamate spherulites (the stars), the microscope field diaphragm defocused with a yellow filter (the moon), and the same diaphragm moved to the lower section of the micrograph through a diffraction grating (the reflected moon).
Check out more of these landscapes over here.
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A magnificent design for the package containing Led Zeppelin’s 2007 concert, Celebration Day. By Shepard Fairley.
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The average age at which people reach the lowest point of happiness in their lives in various countries.
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The world’s most and least corrupt countries, mapped.
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Color photography of Paris in 1914.
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Last fire-related post, promised.
This is called Matches a photo series that mixes matchsticks and fire, by Russian artist and photographer Stanislav Aristov.
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Stunning illustrations for the family houses in Game of Thrones.
