On this evening’s reading list: How Headphones Changed the World
New York Plans to Ban Sale of Big Sizes of Sugary Drinks - New York Times
World Turtle Day is celebrated every May 23 to help people celebrate and protect turtles and tortoises and their disappearing habitats around the world.
CHILDREN EXAMINE A BOX TURTLE AT STILLWATER, NEW YORK, NEAR ADIRONDACK FOREST PRESERVE, 07/1973
Anne LaBastille, photographer. From the EPA’s DOCUMERICA series
Bacteria that have not received any fresh sources of food for 86 million years "live life in the extreme slow lane" »
(Source: blogs.discovermagazine.com)
Brussels Express: The Perils of Cycling in Europe’s Most Congested City
I guess my route to work (that is 80% bike lanes) isn’t so bad…
Vera and Vladimir Nabokov, chasing butterflies, Ithaca, New York, September 1958. Photograph by Carl Mydans for LIFE Magazine.
I suspect the spike on Dec 28/29/30 here has something to do with taxes.
Also, it’s good to see how considerate babies are w/r/t not arriving on Xmas day.
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How many babies were born in the United States on each date between 1973 and 1999. From the New York Times:
Jan. 1, for example, was the 364th most popular birthday for a baby during those years; only Dec. 25 and Feb. 29 were less popular. Sept. 16 was the most popular birthday.
Last Ones Left in a Toxic Kansas Town - New York Times
A local couple, Dennis and Ella Johnston, agreed to give me the pollution tour. In Dennis’s blue Chevy truck, we drove through downtown — a church, trailers, a one-room City Hall with a pair of its windows boarded up — and then went down a dirt road to a pool formed by a caved-in mine. “Local kids used to skinny-dip here all the time,” Dennis said, grinning and pointing at the glassy water. “We’d see kids with sunburns all over their bodies.” But it turns out the kids hadn’t been burned by the sun, he said; they had been chemically burned by all the acids in the water.
The Commencement: Advice for Graduates from Pop Culture Guest Speakers
It was really cool to actually be there for Sorkin’s speech—be sure to watch it (here).
There was some sadness in our row due to the anti-Georgetown rhetoric, but I guess that’s just how it goes.
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speaking of Fancy Dress parties
Gee whiz it’s like this guy time traveled to Right Now and went on the internet and asked what people think is funny. Because the answer is bacon, for reasons I know not.
But since he won first prize I guess they were all hip to the future back in ‘94. 1894.
