Gabriel Kuri “punto y línea en el altiplano”
Gallery Franco Noero, Turin
npr:
Watch the trailer for the new season of “Arrested Development.” Are you ready?! — tanya b.
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Photograph by Gregg Segal
For this week’s cover story, TIME commissioned photographer Gregg Segal to document the numerous ways that Americans are beginning to use drones in everyday life. See the work on LightBox here.
Australian firefighters test data-transmitting pills to monitor biometrics during work
A new swallowable pill has been trialled with 50 firefighters in Australia, aimed at monitoring body temperatures and other vital readings when working under extreme conditions. Using Equivital’s VitalSense Core Temperature capsules, they transmit readings to the companion EQ02 LifeMonitor, housed on the chest. This then sends data on skin temperature, heart rate and respiration rate to an external computer. If a firefighter’s core body temperature is increasing too quickly, they can then be moved from the frontline to a recovery area, hopefully reducing accidents and deaths caused by heat exhaustion.
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The Onion describes social media 100% accurately.
npr:
A nurse at the health clinic in Minjibir, Nigeria, distributes free bed nets to combat malaria. Campaigns like this one, which offers services for malaria, attract local residents to the clinic. While they’re there, residents are encouraged to get their children vaccinated against polio. Leaders from around the world are renewing their call to eradicate polio. The disease has been eradicated in all but Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria. Of those three countries, Nigeria is the only one reporting an increase this year in the number of cases of the disease. Photo by @dpgilkey / NPR.
(Source: realhorrorshowptitsa)
pablo valbuena
On Being Nothing
I know that the world only tramples me as a street crowd does an earthworm — not out of malice or stupidity, but because no one sees it.
How Classic Disney Movies Made an Entire Generation Suck
Exceptional upward mobility in the U.S. is a myth, international studies show
The rhetoric is relentless: America is a place of unparalleled opportunity, where hard work and determination can propel a child out of humble beginnings into the White House, or at least a mansion on a hill.
But the reality is very different, according to a University of Michigan researcher who is studying inequality across generations around the world.
Full Story: University of Michigan
(Source: desireexelyda)
Plastic eating Mushrooms
Yale researchers have discovered a type of mushroom that can eat plastic. During an expedition to the jungles of Ecuador, Professor Scott Strobel and his team of researchers have found a new fungus that eats polyurethane (plastic). The fungi, called “Pestalotiopsis microspore”, is able to survive on eating plastic alone—while without the need for air or light. Students Jonathan Russell and Pria Anand have written in the journal ‘Applied and Environmental Microbiology’, that the enzyme the fungus uses to decompose plastic has been isolated. Scientists hope to use the extracted chemical to solve the plastic trash and help bioremediation projects. If successful, this could change the way we get rid of trash. (via Recently-Discovered ‘Magic Mushrooms’ Can Eat Plastic - DesignTAXI.com)
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