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thewomentakeover: “The best way to encourage women not to judge...

Fri, 17 May 2013 02:03:44 -0500

“The best way to encourage women not to judge other women is to encourage and create connections between them. When someone is human and vulnerable, it’s a whole lot harder to make blanket statements and judgments about her. On a larger scale, we need to stop portraying women as catty b*tches out to get each other. If girls grow up seeing complicated, deep relationships between women who are working together instead of against each other in real life and in pop culture, they’re less likely to expect those judgments from other women or to level them themselves.” - Emma Gray

Read the rest of the interview here.

Photo by Andres Bohorquez.

neil-gaiman: -Neil Gaiman (Make Good Art) The Chip Kidd...

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:22:30 -0500

neil-gaiman:

-Neil Gaiman (Make Good Art)

The Chip Kidd designs for the book are remarkable…

And it’s published tomorrow.

We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but...

Fri, 03 May 2013 17:04:18 -0500

We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. - Gloria Steinem

Incredibly unique and dope. “For this ongoing project,...

Wed, 01 May 2013 15:34:00 -0500

Incredibly unique and dope. “For this ongoing project, Shells created official-looking street signs quoting famous rap lyrics that shout out specific street corners and locations. He then installed them at those specific street corners and locations.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54yahfgbqQE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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[April 4, 1968] King was booked in room 306 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, owned by businessman...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:20:00 -0500

[April 4, 1968] King was booked in room 306 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, owned by businessman...

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"China realizes the value of space exploration and educating the young and is increasing its..."

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:02:28 -0600

“China realizes the value of space exploration and educating the young and is increasing its...

Signed silk screen print by @obeygiant. What a surprise, thanks...

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:40:54 -0600

Signed silk screen print by @obeygiant. What a surprise, thanks @arkitip!

Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov (Russian: Станисла́в Евгра́фович...

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:53:24 -0600

Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov (Russian: Станисла́в Евгра́фович Петро́в; born c. 1939) is a retired lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces. On September 26, 1983, he was the duty officer at the command center for the Oko nuclear early-warning system when the system reported a missile being launched from the United States. Petrov judged that the report was a false alarm. This decision is credited with having prevented an erroneous retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States and its NATO allies, which would have likely resulted in large-scale nuclear war. Investigation later confirmed that the satellite warning system had malfunctioned.…

He received no reward. According to Petrov, this was because the incident and other bugs that were found in the missile detection system embarrassed his superiors and the influential scientists who were responsible for the system, so that if he had been officially rewarded, they would have had to have been punished. He was reassigned to a less sensitive post, took early retirement (although he emphasizes that he was not “forced out” of the army, as the case is presented by some Western sources), and suffered a nervous breakdown. Petrov is now a pensioner, spending his retirement in the town of Fryazino, Russia.

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http://www.palanimohan.com/ teh fp

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:11:12 -0600

http://www.palanimohan.com/ teh fp

Mario Caldato, Jr., or as he is known in some circles, “Mario...

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:23:00 -0600

Mario Caldato, Jr., or as he is known in some circles, “Mario C,” is a Brazilian record producer. Mario was immortalized in 1998 by Mike D of the Beastie Boys in one breath, “Mario C likes to keep it clean…”

http://leftfieldproject.com/interview-mario-caldato-jr-producer/

Melba Roy, NASA Mathmetician, at the Goddard Space Flight Center...

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:34:11 -0600

Melba Roy, NASA Mathmetician, at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland in 1964. Ms. Roy led a group of NASA mathmeticians known as “computers” who tracked the Echo satellites. The first time I shared Ms. Roy on VBG, my friend Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a former postdoc in astrophysics at NASA, helpfully explained what Ms. Roy did in the comment section. I am sharing Chanda’s comment again here: “By the way, since I am a physicist, I might as well explain a little bit about what she did: when we launch satellites into orbit, there are a lot of things to keep track of. We have to ensure that gravitational pull from other bodies, such as other satellites, the moon, etc. don’t perturb and destabilize the orbit. These are extremely hard calculations to do even today, even with a machine-computer. So, what she did was extremely intense, difficult work. The goal of the work, in addition to ensuring satellites remained in a stable orbit, was to know where everything was at all times. So they had to be able to calculate with a high level of accuracy. Anyway, that’s the story behind orbital element timetables”. Photo: NASA/Corbis

Hey nerds, another installment of Inventory is up today. We shot...

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:42:00 -0600

Hey nerds, another installment of Inventory is up today. We shot this one while we were in NYC over the holiday and features the talented fashion designer Rachel Antonoff. Give it a read if you get a moment, if you don’t have a minute, I hate you. http://t.co/y65uWDFd

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Had to stop by @cleanhandsarmy and pick up some supplies. Stoked...

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:07:54 -0600

Had to stop by @cleanhandsarmy and pick up some supplies. Stoked on these @ironlak gloves. #cleanhands