Photo of the Day: A self-portrait.
Photo by: Nicole Lewis (Carlsbad, California), Carlsbad, California
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I dreamt we slept in a moss in Donegal
On turf banks under blankets, with our faces
Exposed all night in a wetting drizzle,
Pallid as the dripping sapling birches.
Lorenzo and Jessica in a cold climates.
Diarmuid and Grainne waiting to be found.
Darkly asperged and censed, we were laid out
Like breathing effigies on a raised ground.
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Sheer awesome?
Terrifying Flying Robot Quadrotors Perform the ‘James Bond’ Theme
Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania’s General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab, Daniel Mellinger, Alex Kushleyev and Vijay Kumar, demonstrate the agility of their autonomous quadrotors by programming them to plunk out the James Bond theme music on a room full of instruments. Humans assign the robots a location in space and a time to get there, but the robots have to figure out how to navigate from point to point without colliding in midair. Kurtis Sensenig produced this dramatic video of the performance.
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Just favorited “Influencia do jazz” by jazzcat on Mixcloud.com
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Just favorited “Vlada Stojanovic - Jazz Ladies” by Laid Back on Mixcloud.com
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Just favorited “Best of Quantic Mix by J.Rocc” by Tru Thoughts on Mixcloud.com
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Just favorited “Break n’ bossa” by jazzcat on Mixcloud.com
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Just favorited “Amy, Amy, Amy!” by DOC TV on Mixcloud.com
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Just favorited “Cornerstone Global-icious June (17th June 2011)” by docfiasco on Mixcloud.com
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Just favorited “Dandy Teru - French Doin’ It Well” by Laid Back on Mixcloud.com
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Mark Pickens, over at the CGD blog, shares stories of unique saving devices:
One man – let’s call him Richard – used an ingenious method to save for a new motorcycle. Whenever he had a bit of extra cash he wrapped it in heavy plastic, waterproofed it with industrial-grade resin, and dropped it into the petrol tank of his current motorcycle. After a year when he thought he had enough to buy a bigger, better vehicle, he had the petrol tank removed and cut open with an acetylene torch to…
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I was raised to believe empathy was what made us human, and that it’s reciprocal: The capacity to stand in another’s shoes and feel for them is one of our great advantages. So I think we’ve got to try to understand why whites seem to believe they’re facing more bias than African-Americans, even if we’re inclined to roll our eyes and either hope it’s a research problem (which I did) or hold on until what whites believe doesn’t matter so much anymore. I trust the next far-more-multiracial…
