Origami

Gonzalo Garcia Calvo

 

“Isn’t It Our Job To Be Collecting Great Moments” by Herakut

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“Let Me Be Myself” by Kobra

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Ludo

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Now is NOW !

On Beyond Zarathustra, John Holbo

 

Are we nearly there yet?

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World Animal Day

Border collies are renowned for their intelligence—and this one, named Betsy, is no exception.
She can put names to objects faster than a great ape and has a 340-word vocabulary.

 From crows to orangutans, meet some of the animal kingdom's brainiest creatures.

 

"Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it. "

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Don Quixote, Jie Ma

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Film Meets Art II

Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps (1801) and Sofia Coppola, Marie Antionette (2006)
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Suitcases that had been long forgotten.

In 1995, the New York State Office of Mental Health closed the Willard Psychiatric Center in a town called Willard in Seneca County in western New York State. During a process of assessing what items in the building could and could not be salvaged, a Willard employee named Bev Courtwright unlocked an attic door and was confronted with an astonishing sight: 400 suitcases containing the possessions of mental patients from decades earlier, suitcases that had been long forgotten.

 

Walk the Line

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The One – Grand Show

Jean-Paul Gaultier

 

»See something you like?« by Kristin Mciver

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Andres Segovia Capricho Diabolico, Op.85

Ana Vidovic

Ana Vidović is one of the youngest virtuoso guitarists in the world. Ana started playing guitar at the age of 5, and by 7 had given her first public performance. At the age of 11 she was performing internationally, and at 13 became the youngest student to attend the prestigious National Musical Academy in Zagreb, Croatia. Ana has won an impressive number of prizes and international competitions all over the world.
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Somewhere, Stéphane Mahé

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Flamingos at Sunset

Aya Okawa

 

Poppy: Burgundy, New York, 1968, Irving Penn

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Oblique Tragedies

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Soon

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Famous Frog Toughie Dies, Sending Species to Extinction

And then there were none. 

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Meet the creatures who look into the face of venomous death and say: Not today

In n 1976, a student at the Texas A&M University-Kingsville was tasked with feeding the snakes in what is now the university’s National Natural Toxins Research Center. Thinking it didn’t make much difference what kind of rodent the serpents ate, the student offered one of the Center’s western diamondback rattlesnakes a plump, fuzzy woodrat. The snake attacked by sinking its fangs into the rat’s fur—a maneuver that’s usually followed by near-instant hemorrhaging, clotting in the liver, and cardiac arrest. But instead of keeling over, the rodent stared back at the God of Death and whispered: “Not today.”
 Now, the woodrat is no honey badger, the snake-defying creature crowned by the internet as the namesake of casual badassery. Woodrats weigh less than a pound, have neither large claws nor crazy fangs, and certainly don’t look capable of tangoing with a full-grown rattlesnake. And yet, when the scientists repeated the trial, they found that the woodrats not only held their own against the rattlers, the rodents sometimes scratched and bit the snakes... to death. Woodrats, as it turns out, are immune to rattlesnake venom. Makes sense, right?
 If you’re a cute little ball of fur that lives in rattlesnake country, then it’d sure be swell to be able to take a bite or two and still make it to hot yoga on time. For woodrats, venom immunity is like having a can of Fix-A-Flat in the car: You hope you never need it, but it’s handy in a pinch.
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Colorado Hail Storm

Fred Wasmer

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