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Hans Rosling: Religions and babies

Quentin Dupieux (Mr. Oizo) releases Chapter 1 of Wrong Cops, a day after Directors Fortnight @ Cannes. Starring Marilyn Manson & FlyLo.

‎In the future, humans won’t speak directly to each other, but rather amongst the clouds. For the heavens reverberate consciousness, whilst the others muddle in the swamps of drama.

—R. Stature

Shadow Skating. 

The Greatest Talk of Jacque Fresco - The Venus Project

Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar walked into a record store in late 2004 and, wanting a Christmas gift for his 14-year-old son, asked for the “most forward-thinking electronic music album” they had… 8 years later this is what the fruit tastes like: BBC One: Essential Mix

Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar walked into a record store in late 2004 and, wanting a Christmas gift for his 14-year-old son, asked for the “most forward-thinking electronic music album” they had… 8 years later this is what the fruit tastes like:

BBC One: Essential Mix

X-ray diffraction image of DNA

X-ray diffraction image of DNA

The Loneliest Whale in the World. In 2004, The New York Times wrote an article about the loneliest whale in the world. Scientists have been tracking her since 1992 and they discovered the problem: She isn’t like any other baleen whale. Unlike all other whales, she doesn’t have friends. She doesn’t have a family. She doesn’t belong to any tribe, pack or gang. She doesn’t have a lover. She never had one. Her songs come in groups of two to six calls, lasting for five to six seconds each. But her voice is unlike any other baleen whale. It is unique—while the rest of her kind communicate between 12 and 25hz, she sings at 52hz. You see, that’s precisely the problem. No other whales can hear her. Every one of her desperate calls to communicate remains unanswered. Each cry ignored. And, with every lonely song, she becomes sadder and more frustrated, her notes going deeper in despair as the years go by. Just imagine that massive mammal, floating alone and singing—too big to connect with any of the beings it passes, feeling paradoxically small in the vast stretches of empty, open ocean.

The Loneliest Whale in the World.

In 2004, The New York Times wrote an article about the loneliest whale in the world. Scientists have been tracking her since 1992 and they discovered the problem: She isn’t like any other baleen whale. Unlike all other whales, she doesn’t have friends. She doesn’t have a family. She doesn’t belong to any tribe, pack or gang. She doesn’t have a lover. She never had one. Her songs come in groups of two to six calls, lasting for five to six seconds each. But her voice is unlike any other baleen whale. It is unique—while the rest of her kind communicate between 12 and 25hz, she sings at 52hz. You see, that’s precisely the problem. No other whales can hear her. Every one of her desperate calls to communicate remains unanswered. Each cry ignored. And, with every lonely song, she becomes sadder and more frustrated, her notes going deeper in despair as the years go by. Just imagine that massive mammal, floating alone and singing—too big to connect with any of the beings it passes, feeling paradoxically small in the vast stretches of empty, open ocean.

(Source: deathcomesupon, via thescientificmethods)

In God we trust, but all others must bring data.

—Eric Schmidt via: W. Edwards Deming

Not only does David Byrne have an awesome radio station, but his journal is also pretty rad. If you’re too cool to read, here’s the audio version.

Not only does David Byrne have an awesome radio station, but his journal is also pretty rad.

If you’re too cool to read, here’s the audio version.

We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.

— Buckminster Fuller