Slavenka & Obi: September 2016

Friday, September 30, 2016

NONE, Ash Thorp

NONE is a short film that explores the balance of light and darkness. It has a personal narrative which plays with the notion of finding yourself amidst the noise around you. via

The Unbearable, the Sadness and the Rest

Clementine Schneidermann's photographs of Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent, have won her this year's Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award.

Thursday, September 29, 2016

Gary Johnson Says His Favorite Foreign Leader Is Obi-Wan Kenobi

Asked at a town-hall meeting on Wednesday to name his favorite foreign leader, the Libertarian Presidential candidate Gary Johnson seemed stumped at first before finally responding, “Obi-Wan Kenobi.” The host of the town hall, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, initially appeared taken aback by Johnson’s answer, but the former New Mexico governor went on to defend it vigorously. “Obi-Wan Kenobi is a Jedi Master, Chris,” Johnson said. “More than anyone else, he taught me that the Force is already strong with me.” “We’re on the same page about this, aren’t we, Bill?” he asked his running mate, the former Massachusetts Governor William Weld, who smiled weakly and shifted awkwardly in his chair. As the town-hall audience murmured nervously, Matthews reframed the question for Johnson. “What I meant was, Governor, could you name your favorite world leader on this planet?” he asked. Again, Johnson seemed perplexed, before eventually replying, “Frodo.” The Libertarian Party announced on Thursday that Johnson would participate in no additional town halls.

By Andy Borowitz

Trumpapillar

The flannel moth caterpillar (Megalopyge opercularis) resembles Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's hair.
Credit: Jeff Cremer
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RSB photographer of the year shortlist and young photographer of the year winner

The Beginning by Pradyuman Samant

Fighting elk bulls and a microscopic image of shark’s skin are among the shortlisted images for the Royal Society of Biology’s photographer of the year award, which this year takes the theme Biology: from Big to Small

Peanuts

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Happy birthday

Happy leaf

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Animal Kingdom, Tomasz Gudzowaty

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Do you have trouble falling asleep at night?

Maybe you have a tickle in your throat that just won't leave you alone? Or perhaps you need some immediate relief from a nagging toothache?
If the answer to any of these questions is "yes" then these awesome life hacks are for you.

Personal Messages

Maya

Sometimes Maya might look like a regular Siberian husky puppy, but she is quite a special one.

Take Me, Deer

Kamil Nureev

King of the Playground

Satellite eye on Earth

Ocean storms, California fires and an ice-free North-west Passage were among the images captured by European Space Agency and Nasa satellites.

Two Aleppo hospitals bombed out of service in 'catastrophic' airstrikes

The two largest hospitals in besieged eastern Aleppo have been put out of service in airstrikes overnight and on Wednesday morning, the latest in a devastating week-long bombing campaign that has claimed hundreds of lives. The M2 and M10 hospitals, codenames used by local doctors to obscure the locations of the facilities, were hit at about 4am and then again at around 10am in what one health official described as a bombing campaign that was “catastrophic and unprecedented in modern history”.
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Monster

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