Month: January 2015

  • Brides Race to Win a Wedding Dress

    Brides Race to Win a Wedding Dress

    The 150-metre dash requires competitors to don wedding gowns and running shoes in a sprint through the Serbian capital. Belgrade resident Sanja Cigoja was the first to cross the finishing line out of the 100 ladies taking part, with an impressive winning time of 19 seconds.The winner and two runners-up receive numerous awards including the…

  • The Animal That Wouldn't Die

    The Animal That Wouldn't Die

    A small freshwater animal – the uncommonly resilient hydra – challenges the belief that all living things must die. The idea that living organisms are born to reproduce and ultimately die is one of the most common and widely accepted ideas about life across cultures. But is it true? Using whimsical animation, The Animal That…

  • Cartoon for Hottest Year Ever; 2014

    Cartoon for Hottest Year Ever; 2014

    All of these  scientific centres and global climate watchers claim that 2014 was the warmest year ever Global Analysis – Annual 2014 http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/ 2014 on track to be hottest year on record, says US science agency http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/20/2014-on-track-to-be-hottest-year-on-record-says-us-science-agency climate central.org http://www.climatecentral.org/news/2014-on-track-to-be-warmest-year-on-record-18041 NOAA http://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/january/nasa-determines-2014-warmest-year-in-modern-record/#.VL_igUfF9Z8 2014 warmest year in Europe since 1500s http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e92579ae-8580-11e4-ab4e-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3PThtypDi

  • Fundamental Misunderstanding

    Fundamental Misunderstanding

    Jim Culleny is the Poetry Editor of 3 Quarks Daily. Did regular radio commentary for about 10 years  and some for NPR on All Things Considered. Played and sang his way from rockabilly to jazz in numberless band permutations over a period too long to believe. Came to poetry through songwriting. Has had work published in…

  • Oscar-nominated Leviathan

    Oscar-nominated Leviathan

    Leviathan, the new film by Andrey Zvyagintsev, is about political corruption in northern Russia. But unlike many other political films, it is not a thriller. Instead, it is a film that takes a philosophical, almost contemplative attitude, toward social decay and political corruption. The film tells the story of a working class couple whose house,…

  • Couples Switch Outfits

    Couples Switch Outfits

    Hana Pesut is a Canadian photographer. She loves taking pictures of people and their outfits. She’s well known for her book  switchheroo which consists of photos in which couples trade their clothes. Along with the  depiction of humorously dressed couples, she was able to pin point the fact that many of the women look fine in their partner’s ensemble, while…

  • Tears Are Different

    Tears Are Different

    Scientifically, tears are divided into three different types, based on their origin. Both tears of grief and joy are psychic tears, triggered by extreme emotions, whether positive or negative. Basal tears are released continuously in tiny quantities (on average, 0.75 to 1.1 grams over a 24-hour period) to keep the cornea lubricated. Reflex tears are secreted in response…

  • Stoicism is Against Positive Thinking

    Stoicism is Against Positive Thinking

    By keeping the very worst that can happen in our heads constantly, the Stoics tell us, we immunise ourselves from the dangers of too much so-called ‘positive thinking’, a product of the mind that believes a realistic accounting of the world can lead only to despair. Only by envisioning the bad can we truly appreciate…

  • Master Böyükağa

    Master Böyükağa

    In this video the two generations of Iranian classical music Böyükağa and young singer Omeed Mazhari collaborate and create a transcendental musical moment. Böyükağa, the self learned master who couldn’t stand the pattern of ordinary life grew dissatisfied and lonely much like the Japanese Haiku poet of 17 century Basho. He is not with us…

  • Family Chaos

    Family Chaos

    As any parent knows, raising a family isn’t always a walk in the park. Lifestyle photographer Danielle Guenther captures this sentiment in Best Case Scenario, a hilarious series that presents some of the messy, chaotic moments of parenting in a comical light. Guenther, who regularly visits different households to take more traditional family portraits, began…

  • Hypereducated Poor

    Hypereducated Poor

    Much political rhetoric these days is devoted to the importance of broadening access to college—and there is plenty of evidence that it’s still better financially to have a degree than not—but in the postcrash world of 2014, a good education may not keep you from hovering near the poverty line. The number of people with…

  • Language of the Future

    That’s what indigenous languages tend to be like in one way or another. Languages “grow” in complexity the way that people pick up habits and cars pick up rust. One minute the way you mark a verb in the future tense is to use will: I will buy it. The next minute, an idiom kicks…

  • Iranian Band of Three Vagabonds "Velshodegan"

    Iranian Band of Three Vagabonds "Velshodegan"

    Velshodegan plays Iranian traditional music, a band of the three Musketeers that act like Don Quixote. They play the traditional musical scales but instead of the poetry associated with the Iranian classic music, their songs have no sadness ,no spiritual quests and no heartbroken lovers. They are singing sarcastic street slang that defies the norms. https://www.facebook.com/Velshodegan?pnref=story Mehran Fallahi singer, songwriter and Tar player, Behzad Hassanzadeh…

  • Only Survived Record of Virginia Woolf's Voice

    Only Survived Record of Virginia Woolf's Voice

    Virginia Woolf in this priceless souvenirs leaves us her fascinating thought process while talking about talks the importance of the words in English language. Words that have feeling and intention in them. Words that deny all sorts of boundaries, classes and expectations. Words that keep changing their meanings all the time.

  • We Run But Still Can’t Catch Up

    We Run But Still Can’t Catch Up

    The key is that a society undergoing acceleration gets caught in a feedback loop it cannot escape, whereby acceleration in production, circulation, and distribution (in Rosa’s terms, “technical acceleration”) drives social change. The institutions of society no longer guarantee stable life paths. If in classical modernity people could imagine their lives in intergenerational terms — say, the…