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Visual artist Adrián Villar Rojas - Wood, rocks and clay. Bienal del fin del mundo. Second Edition. Ushuaia.
My country!
For years, you’ve wasted your time on Facebook. Now here’s your chance to waste your money on it, too (via A Letter from Mark Zuckerberg « Borowitz Report)
"The Flickr team scheduled a meeting and headed down to corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale for an hour long presentation to make its case. Halfway through the meeting, the vice president who oversaw customer care for Yahoo looked at his watch, announced he had another meeting, and left. It was an open fuck you."
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The Land of the Giants - inspiration from Iceland
This won the 2010 Boston Society of Architects award for un-built architecture. It also wins them our gratitude for renewing our faith in the creativity and humour that is clearly alive and kicking in both the Icelandic National Power commission who ran a competition to find something new to do with 220kv high-voltage towers and lines and in Choi + Shine who have created something rather wonderful. We salute them both.
(via inspiredbyiceland)
(Source: vimeo.com, via mysterymix)
Girls in STEM
It’s not a secret that women (and pretty much any minority group) have uphill battle after uphill battle facing them when it comes to succeeding in math, science and engineering fields. Some of these are explicit (like the tilted playing field of the tenure system, which could take 100 years to level out), and some are more obscured (like the quiet social pressures that push them away from science). But what is clear is that it does not have to be the case.
I was really struck by this infographic’s ability to capture how quickly and precipitously women drop out of many fields of science once social pressures begin to take over.
I hope that projects like ScienceCheerleader, IAmScience, DoubleXScience and This Is What A Scientist Looks Like (<- bonus points if you can find me on that one) can continue to make this image a relic of the past and not a picture of the future.
(ᔥ EngineeringDegree.net, click here for enlargification)
(via fuckyeahcomputerscience)
Like the thought. I often look at the Icelandic landscape and imagine what it was like before anybody came here. Of course, it looks mostly the same (except for some new volcanoes), but nobody had seen it. And imagine all of the spectacular eruptions, not disturbing any flights, the flowing waterfalls with nobody to see them and the boiling hot springs with nobody bathing. Actually imagine right now, a boiling hot spring all alone up in the Icelandic highlands, patiently steaming, summer and winter, night and day while it waits for you to come have a bath.
Photograph by Orsolya and Erlend Haarberg
When Hverfjall erupted 2,500 years ago, no one saw it—no one lived in Iceland. On a March evening photographer Orsolya Haarberg watched alone as a north wind scoured Mývatn lake’s thin ice, sweeping snow into a drift that looked like a path to the crater.
