Saturday, May 10, 2014
20 Classical Paintings Reproduced As Photographs
The creative at Booooom.com recently started a project with the title “Remake” in which they invited creative art lovers to reproduce iconic paintings with photography without the use of any image editing software including Adobe Photoshop. In this remake project Boooooom partnered up with Adobe inviting students from U.K. to participate and send their remakes without digital manipulations.
Below is our pick of the best remakes capturing the basic visual theme and original atmosphere of the masterpieces they imitated.
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Below is our pick of the best remakes capturing the basic visual theme and original atmosphere of the masterpieces they imitated.
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50 THINGS EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW
50 THINGS EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW
(or 50 Completely Useless Facts!)
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The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon. Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions! What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France. "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order. "Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel. In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off! Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath There is a city called Rome on every continent. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day! Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness. The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe! The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump! One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet! Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different! The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue! The average person laughs 10 times a day! An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails! Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin! More Facts: Interesting Facts... |  Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it. On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute. More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes. The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words. More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand. The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times! The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish. Earth is the only planet not named after a god. It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA. You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206. Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food! Dolphins sleep with one eye open! It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old! The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not Slugs have 4 noses. Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle. | |
Russia plans to colonise the MOON by 2030 according to leaked government document that says robot ‘rovers’ will be sent in 2016
MEANWHILE NASA LOSES FUNDING
The Kremlin has fired the starting pistol on its new space race less than three years after the U.S. was forced to start hitching flights on Russian rockets.
Nasa ended its space shuttle programme in 2011 and has faced years of funding cuts.
Just last month a Soyuz rocket carried two Russian cosmonauts and a U.S. astronaut to the International Space Station (above), despite the crisis in Ukraine and tough talking on sanctions.
China, Japan and India have all announced their intention to launch fresh missions to the Moon, which was last visited by humans in 1976.
But Russia's space programme, which achieved the first manned space flight in 1961, is far ahead and is the only one to explicitly call for manned lunar missions.
Just a fortnight ago, the Roscosmos announced plans for the massive new 'super-rockets' capable of lifting payloads of up to 120 tonnes into space.
The latest report was prepared by by the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Roscosmos federal space agency, Moscow State University and several space research institutes.
It envisages international cooperation but stresses the 'independence of the national lunar programme must be ensured regardless of the conditions and extend of participation by foreign partners.'
The document appears to be an expansion on plans to first set out by Moscow last month, when deputy PM Dmitry Rogozin dramatically announced: 'We are coming to the Moon forever.'
In an article in the government's own newspaper headlined 'Russian Space', he spoke of targeting Mars and other 'space objects' as future priorities.
'Flights to Mars and asteroids in our view do not contradict exploration of the moon, but in many senses imply this process.'
He wrote of 'colonisation of the moon and near-moon space'.
In the next 50 years, manned flights are unlikely beyond 'the space between Venus and Mars'. But 'it is quite possible to speak about exploration of Mars, flights to asteroids and flights to Mars'.
The essential first step as a base for research and experiments was the moon, said Mr Rogozin, who is in overall charge of Russia's space and defence industries, and was recently targeted for sanctions over the Ukraine crisis.
Morning Links 5-10-2014
Friday, May 9, 2014
On Income Redistribution...
Henry Hazlitt
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henry Stuart Hazlitt
Henry Hazlitt
Born November 28, 1894
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Died July 9, 1993 (aged 98) Nationality American Field economics
literary criticism
philosophy School/tradition Austrian School Influences Benjamin Anderson, Frédéric Bastiat, David Hume, William James, H.L. Mencken,Ludwig von Mises, F. A. Hayek, Herbert Spencer,Philip Wicksteed Influenced Steve Forbes, Milton Friedman, Ron Paul, George Reisman, Murray Rothbard,Paul Samuelson, Peter Schiff,Thomas Sowell, Walter E. Williams, Gene Callahan
Henry Stuart Hazlitt (November 28, 1894 – July 9, 1993) was an American journalist who wrote about business and economics for such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, The American Mercury, Newsweek, and The New York Times. He is widely cited in both libertarian and conservative circles.[1]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henry Hazlitt
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| Born | November 28, 1894 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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| Died | July 9, 1993 (aged 98) |
| Nationality | American |
| Field | economics literary criticism philosophy |
| School/tradition | Austrian School |
| Influences | Benjamin Anderson, Frédéric Bastiat, David Hume, William James, H.L. Mencken,Ludwig von Mises, F. A. Hayek, Herbert Spencer,Philip Wicksteed |
| Influenced | Steve Forbes, Milton Friedman, Ron Paul, George Reisman, Murray Rothbard,Paul Samuelson, Peter Schiff,Thomas Sowell, Walter E. Williams, Gene Callahan |
Henry Stuart Hazlitt (November 28, 1894 – July 9, 1993) was an American journalist who wrote about business and economics for such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, The American Mercury, Newsweek, and The New York Times. He is widely cited in both libertarian and conservative circles.[1]
Biography[edit]
Henry Hazlitt was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He was a collateral descendant of the British essayist William Hazlitt,[2] but grew up in relative poverty, his father having died when Hazlitt was an infant. His early heroes wereHerbert Spencer and William James, and his first ambition was for an academic career in psychology and philosophy. He attended New York's City College, but left after only a short time in order to support his twice-widowed mother.[3]
Hazlitt started his career at The Wall Street Journal as secretary to the managing editor when he was still a teenager, and his interest in the field of economics began while working there. His studies led him to The Common Sense of Political Economy by Philip Wicksteed which, he later said, was his first "tremendous influence" in the subject.[4] Hazlitt published his first book, Thinking as a Science, at the age of 21. During World War I, he served in the Army Air Service in Texas. He returned to New York, residing atWashington Square Park for many years.[5]
In the early 1920s, he was financial editor of The New York Evening Mail, and it was during this period, Hazlitt reported, that his understanding of economics was further refined by frequent discussions with former Harvard economics professor Benjamin Anderson who was then working for Chase National Bank in Manhattan. Later, when the publisher W. W. Norton suggested he write an official biography of their author Bertrand Russell, Hazlitt spent "a good deal of time," as he described it, with the famous philosopher.[6] Lord Russell "so admired the young journalist's talent" that he had agreed with Norton's proposal,[7] but the project ended after nearly two years of work when Russell declared his intention to write his own autobiography.[6]
Pope Urges Governments To Stop Excluding Welfare Recipients From "Dignified labor"
Pope Francis urged the U.N. to "promote development goals that attack the root causes of poverty and hunger, protect the environment and ensure dignified labor for all."
Clearly, the Pope is signaling that he realizes that the root causes of poverty and hunger is free shit.
Governments should dignify the poor by putting them to work, redistribute wealth from social programs to wages and develop productive work habits that will attack the root causes of poverty (e.g. sloth and free shit).
Since we know, that capitalism reduces pollution and Marxism increases pollution, the Pope is clearly advocating the end of communist and socialist governments in favor of capitalism.
Clearly, the Pope is signaling that he realizes that the root causes of poverty and hunger is free shit.
Governments should dignify the poor by putting them to work, redistribute wealth from social programs to wages and develop productive work habits that will attack the root causes of poverty (e.g. sloth and free shit).
Since we know, that capitalism reduces pollution and Marxism increases pollution, the Pope is clearly advocating the end of communist and socialist governments in favor of capitalism.
From this point on America will have the cleanest highways and the safest borders with all these new border guards, and sanitary technicians that we can put to work.
If somehow the Pope is not saying this then he is a Marxist lackey. We know the pope is a compassionate man, Marxism is the opposite of compassion, therefore the Pope is not a Marxist.
Solar Oven Transforms Salt Water to Drinkable Water
Diamanti was inspired to create the project by his own extensive travel and by his friends’ work with NGOs. He saw a world stricken by water scarcity as a graduate student at Milan Polytechnic in 2005, and later decided to pursue the interest as an open-source project – meaning the Eliodomestico is free to copy, modify and distribute. It’s just the thing for challenging locations where manufacturing a product often requires creative use of materials and adaptation to local resources.
For more on this beautiful and thirst quenching project, see the video below and Diamanti’s project page on his personal website.
A graphic detailing the amount of fresh water available to the world – learn more on Wikipedia.
