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Kelli Anderson details how the clever A-to-Z 7-segment display mechanism works on the front of Alphabet in Motion, her new pop-up book about typography.
From 2017: I Don’t Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People. “Our disagreement is not merely political, but a fundamental divide on what it means to live in a society, how to be a good person, and why any of that matters.” 🎯
If you are thinking of protesting by not voting, Bernie Sanders answers this question very well: “I disagree with Kamala’s position on the war in Gaza. How can I vote for her?”
Delimar Vera was kidnapped when she was 10 days old and presumed to have died in a fire. “Then came a chance encounter with her real mother at a birthday party…”
Somehow, I missed that the teaser trailer for season two of the excellent The Last of Us premiered almost a month ago. I guess both I and the world have been busy with other things and also keeping tabs on the entire interest and media landscape is just not something that’s possible.
Anyway, I am excited for this season to drop sometime in 2025. The skinny from Wikipedia is:
The second season, based on the 2020 game The Last of Us Part II, follows Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) five years after the events of the first season, and introduces Abby (Kaitlyn Dever).
And that “the season is expected to span seven episodes”.
Tags: HBO · The Last of Us · trailers · TV · video
From 1980 to the present, a timeline map of every earthquake in the world with a magnitude of 5 or above. You can play around with different parameters and data, so you can see where the different tectonic plates are, just see where the biggest earthquakes occurred, or add in volcanic eruptions. You can also draw a cross section and it will show how deep the quakes occurred along that line.
Tags: earthquakes · geology · infoviz · maps · science · volcanoes
New book from John Green: Everything Is Tuberculosis, the story of “the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis”. (Green is signing 100,000 copies of this!)
High above the streets of NYC, Brazilian ballet dancer Ingrid Silva performs wearing a custom paper sculpture.
Revealing the rooftop of Renzo Piano’s New York Times Building for the first time, director Jacob Krupnick captures Brazilian ballet dancer Ingrid Silva against the Manhattan skyline at sunrise for short film Above. Dancing to music by Nils Frahm and wearing a custom paper sculpture by French artist Pauline Loctin, Silva moves between HVAC utilities humming 800 feet above the city, in an unseen space with an unexpected elegance.
Tags: ballet · dance · Ingrid Silva · Jacob Krupnick · video
From Danielle Coffyn, a poem called If Adam Picked the Apple. Here’s the first bit of it:
If Adam Picked the Apple
There would be a parade,
a celebration,
a holiday to commemorate
the day he sought enlightenment.
We would not speak of
temptation by the devil, rather,
we would laud Adam’s curiosity,
his desire for adventure
and knowing.
You can read the rest of the poem here and preorder her poetry collection of the same name.
BTW, the hilarious painting is The Rebuke of Adam and Eve (1626) by Domenichino. That Adam, what a wanker.
Tags: art · Danielle Coffyn · Domenichino · poetry · religion
Here’s how foods that were a part of WWII soldiers’ rations (like M&Ms, Nescafé, and Spam) made their way into American homes after the war. And a cheap, post-war glut of powdered cheese resulted in the invention of Cheetos.
“Polls are not votes. The candidates are not deadlocked. There is no ahead or behind, even ‘with 72% of precincts reporting’ on election night. The way elections work is they’re 0-0 all the way up until the votes are counted and then someone wins.”
