This new ultra-simple deck of cards from designer Joe Doucet has simple geometric motifs for minimalists. But the back of each card is marked with a single diagonal line to ensure you don’t inadvertently show your hand.
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Bloomberg Businessweek’s post-Hurricane Sandy cover story “may generate controversy, but only among the stupid,” editor Josh Tyrangiel tweeted Thursday morning.
Coincidentally, the Climate Desk is hosting its second Climate Desk Live event, featuring Kevin Knobloch—the president of the Union of Concerned Scientists and an expert on climate—and Mike Castle, the former governor of Delaware and a nine-term Republican congressman from the state. You can watch them talk about the question of the day—In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, to what extent can science, and climate science in particular, shape US policy?—right here.
Reframe by Adam Scales, Berthelimeau Peter and Paul Van Den Berg.
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By moving around the cube, a series of constant visual changes and surprising experiences of the court reveal. At one point, Reframe is a cube and a series of plates and then disappear. At another time he focuses on details of the environment wall. A dynamic poetic and sensitive develops between contemporary architecture and heritage. discovery of this object animates and activates the existing architecture. ‘Reframe’ proves to be not only an amazing interior / exterior, but also a vector of receptivity visitor revealing details of facades and architectural elements.’s other attraction of this approach concern the visitor himself experimented constantly changes. ‘Reframe’ becomes a through playful interaction between visitors. Approaching, recoiling or turning around the object the visitor moves from position to see that to be seen. From the position of the control to be destabilized and intentionally or not, he engages in an endless game to surprise and be surprised.
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MSF provides treatment for HIV/AIDS to 220,000 people in 23 countries.
This week at the International AIDS Conference (IAC), we’ll be presenting field research and pushing key messages on scale-up and pricing.
See why this year’s IAC is unique.
(Source: tqsmagazine.co.uk)
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Image description: The recently issued Owney Forever stamp, now available at the Post Office, depicts the stray dog who was the unofficial mascot to the U.S. Railway Mail Service in the late 19th century. For nine years, Owney road the rails on mail trains from state to state, logging over 140,000 miles during his lifelong journey.
To learn more about Owney and enter your dog in an Owney-lookalike contest, visit the U.S. Postal Museum.
GOT ALIEN-MOTOR-BYKE?
This remarkable motorbike looks like it’s straight out of a film set - but remarkably an artist has made it out of spare parts.
The Bangkok worker used recycled materials from old cars and bicycles to create a monster machine which is sculpted to look like a beast.
Despite being cobbled together from scrap parts, the spectacular motorcycle works - unlike many sci-fi film props.
Roongrojna Sangwongprisarn, 54, created it out of spare parts in his workshop in Thailand. He has four shops across the country - named the Ko Art Shop - and exports his creations to clients all over the world.
Okay, I know different people I follow/follow me have reblogged pics of libraries and bookshelves and stuff before. So I thought I would share some of the old books that I own. I’ve been collecting them here and there since I was a kid. None are valuable or expensive (most were under $10); a lot of them are bibles or religious texts because that type of book was very common so a lot of them are still around today. I have about fifteen total, dating from the mid-1800s to early 1900s.
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Top row, left to right:
1. Assorted books in their usual home on the shelf
2. Mini Dante’s Inferno, split in two parts
3. Interior and so you can see how small they are
Middle row, left to right:
1. Virgil’s Aeneid. Nearly got in a fistfight with a coworker over this one, back when I worked in a grocery store. People donated books and we sold them for fifty cents. He wanted this one. I glared at him and ran over there and snatched it as quickly as I could. It’s just so beautiful.
2. Inside cover of the Aeneid.
3. Collected poems by Wordsworth
Bottom row, left to right:
1. Interior of the Wordsworth book
2. A small bible from the Civil War era
3. Left: a Danish bible; right: a New Testament
