War is Hell

Veterans For Peace, a UK organization of war veterans, has recently set up a website in opposition to child recruitment of soldiers. Their mission is to raise the minimum UK recruitment age from sixteen to eighteen. The site makes its point with a set of (VERY) darkly humorous parody action figures.

 

Freedom

The New Yorker

 

The Importance of Hide-and-Seek

We all need to hide sometimes. We need to go into the private space of our mind and take measure of our thoughts. We need to enter this space so we can reflect. And then, having done so, we long to be discovered by someone who’s looking, someone who really wants to find us.
 If we never have our feelings known and accepted by the people who are important to us, then hiding is no game; it’s a way of life.

 

Here And Now, Scott Albrecht

more 

 

Shark-fin Soup, Pejac

Asia’s social and political issues through the eyes of Pejac

 

Fallen Princesses

Jasmine, 2009 © Dina Goldstein, more

 

Is the Yeti just another mythical creature or is the Yeti a real thing?

You can probably picture a Yeti, even if you've never visited the Himalayas. From Scooby Doo to Doctor Who, Tintin and Monsters, Inc., the "Abominable Snowman" has popped up regularly in films, video games and television for decades. In popular culture, a Yeti is an enormous, shaggy ape-man with huge feet and aggressive sabre-like teeth. Its fur is either grey or white. It is often depicted roaming the snowy mountains alone, a feral throwback to our violent evolutionary past. Is there anything to this mythical figure, beyond tall tales and vivid imaginations? In the last few years, modern genetics has been brought to bear on the Himalayan Yeti.
 As a result, we may finally be able to put the mystery to bed.

 

Cute Sloth

PHOTO BY ANAIS ANGOULVANT

 

Should You Put a Baby Bird Back in the Nest?

The first days of summer are here: long lazy days, the smell of cut grass… and baby birds falling out of trees. Every year, a new flock of people rescuing fallen birds, and then arguing on Twitter about whether it’s OK to put them back in the nest.

 

Calvin and Hobbes

Calvin and Hobbes

Greek banks closed, capital controls imposed.

Grexit isn’t a hard stretch from here — the much feared mother of all bank runs has already happened, which means that the cost-benefit analysis starting from here is much more favorable to euro exit than it ever was before. Clearly, though, some decisions now have to wait on the referendum. I would vote no, for two reasons.

 Paul Krugman  / continue reading

 

Arnold Schwarzenegger Shuts Down A Homophobic Troll In The Best Possible Way

via

 

Everything else is irrelephant

via 

 

Put a Wing on It

Photograph by Mohd Khorshid, National Geographic Your Shot

 

Back to work, Mike Lee

via

 

Heartbreak

via

 

The Who by Art Kane

via

 

''What a wonderful World! My Louis!'' (2012) by Petr Lovigin

Dream a Little Dream of Me” is the title of the exhibition of the photographic works of Petr Lovigin. It is also an invitation to take a wandering trip through a fantasyland created by the artist.

 

Peak of Dawn

Photograph by Katsuyoshi Nakahara, National Geographic Your Shot

 

If ET and Chewbacca had a baby.

via

 

Come play with us.

via 

 

Buffalo Head

Photograph by Wes Eisenhauer, National Geographic Traveler

 

Leon Bridges - Coming Home

What Happened To The 9-Year-Old Smoking In Mary Ellen Mark's Photo?

"Amanda and her Cousin Amy" by Mary Ellen Mark

 The photographer, who died last month, has a famous portfolio of arresting images.
Among them is a shot of two children in 1990. Amanda thought the photo shoot would change her life. It did not.

 

Using astronomy to unravel the secrets of famous kiss

New findings suggest that the famous photograph of a sailor and a woman in white kissing in Times Square to celebrate Japan’s surrender in World War II occurred at precisely 5:51 p.m., The New York Times reports. In the August issue of Sky & Telescope, scientists describe how they used shadows in the picture—cast by nearby buildings that acted like the “gnomon of a sundial”—to calculate the sun’s position and therefore the precise moment the photo took place. The analysis refutes a popularly accepted account described in the book The Kissing Sailor that had placed the time of the kiss at about 2 p.m., the researchers say. via

 

Hi friend

via