Sign against Child Abuse: This clever sign is designed so that adults see one sign and children 10 and younger see another, based on height and angles of vision. Clever.
Roots and Evolution of Language: Take the basic words we use today and compare them to other languages as they trace back in time. Even though they may have changed, the tone and pacing of them would be familiar to our distant ancestors. That's what this article talks about. Seven language families were cross examined and found that even separated by distance and written language the roots join together using speech analysis.
Paper Horror Movie Cutouts: Talented art!
Missing Heat of Global Warming trapped 700 meters below ocean: Interesting article that led me here and here. I know from my career in the Navy that there are layers of temperature that reflect sonar in the oceans which submarines use to hide themselves. For such a warm layer it would also affect the sea creatures who called that layer home as well as what is or isn't passing beyond it.
Eugene Whelan, the Canadian whose tardiness ended the Cold War: True story. So in 1983 the Canadian minister of agriculture, Eugene Whelan, was showing around the Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev and the USSR ambassador around Canada. At a farewell party for Gorbachev, Whelan was late and the ambassador and Gorbachev talked for three hours about the future of their country. The perestroika, or restructuring, that led to the end of the cold war and the breakup of the USSR was born.
Surreal Self Portraits: Very imaginative and excellent photography.
Statistics to track Murder: An incredibly cool article using statistics of crime in order to track it like an infectious disease. It made me think of the plot of Minority Report (book and film).
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