Bookmarks for 2013-02-15

NASA study finds that Middle East’s water is disappearing fast | FP Passport

“…the Tigris and Euphrates basins — which are ripe with border disputes, conflict over Kurdish minorities, and now major conflicts in Syria and Iraq — might be more prone to the insidious effects of water instability than other places around the globe.”

(tags:eco war pol )
Neon Gods & Funeral Strippers on Vimeo

Neon Gods & Funeral Strippers Video shot and directed by Alex Zhang Hungtai. from “The Statement” LP 4 way split Slim Twig, Dirty Beaches, Ela Orleans, U.S. Girls, 2012, Clan Destine Records clandestinerecords.bigcartel.com/ Alex Zhang Hungtai

(tags:ifttt vimeo video )
The beginning of BotWorld « Magical Nihilism

“The world of domesticated, tiny AIs that Matt was talking about two years ago is what BERG is starting to explore, manufacture – and sell in every larger numbers.”

(tags:berg tech little+printer future )
The best videos of the Chelyabinsk meteor | FP Passport

“The extraordinary developments were captured on video, in part through the automobile dash-cams that are nearly ubiquitous in Russia.”

(tags:video )
4,000-year-old shaman’s stones discovered near Boquete, Panama

“Archaeologists working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama have discovered a cluster of 12 unusual stones in the back of a small, prehistoric rock-shelter near the town of Boquete. The cache represents the earliest material evidence of shamanistic practice in lower Central America.”

(tags:history shamanism )