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July 6, 2012

wired:

Without the work of intellectual giants like Einstein,...



wired:



Without the work of intellectual giants like Einstein, Newton and Darwin, we might still be in the dark ages. But how many scientists still read the dust-ridden texts where these luminaries first expounded their theories? Thanks to the internet, you no longer have to hunt down these yellowing tomes in a moldy library vault. Here’s the story of 9 famous publications that spun the scientific world off its orbit.



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Published on July 06, 2012 10:32

"How other people react is a part of storytelling."

“How other people react is a part of storytelling.”

- Thank you for killing my novel - Salon.com (via rachelfershleiser)
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Published on July 06, 2012 10:31

July 5, 2012

This was a 4x5 negative that I manipulated.



This was a 4x5 negative that I manipulated.

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Published on July 05, 2012 12:42

mpdrolet:

Still from  Michelangelo Antonioni’s  The Passenger,...



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Still from  Michelangelo Antonioni’s  The Passenger, 1975


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Published on July 05, 2012 12:19

futurescope:

Maple Seed Drones Will Swarm The Future

Imagine a...



futurescope:



Maple Seed Drones Will Swarm The Future



Imagine a cheap, tiny, hovering aerial drone capable of being launched with the flick of a person’s wrist and able to provide manipulable 360-degree surveillance views. It’s real, it’s inspired by maple seeds, and the company behind it, Lockheed Martin, envisions a future in which swarms of the new drones can be deployed at a fraction of the cost and with greater capabilities than drones being used today by the military and other agencies.



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Published on July 05, 2012 08:22

July 4, 2012

Arafat Poisoned?

Arafat Poisoned?:

Arafat poisoned Litvinenko style?  My new book incorporates this type of assassination and why someone might choose to employ a technique that can be traced.

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Published on July 04, 2012 10:43

July 3, 2012

"The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most..."

““The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.””

- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (via sunrec)
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Published on July 03, 2012 18:33