From the (U.K.) Telegraph

Ka'apor warriors in the Amazon confront illegal loggers

This article is a gallery of something like 20 photographs with captions. Click on each photograph to move to the next one. Here's one:


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Seen on Tumblr


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From Brain Pickings, a weekly web-newsletter. The title of the issue is
A Velocity of Being: Illustrated Letters to Children about Why We Read by 121 of the Most Inspiring Humans in Our World
A labor of love 8 years in the making, featuring contributions by Jane Goodall, Yo-Yo Ma, Jacqueline Woodson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Mary Oliver, Neil Gaiman, ( Read more... )

That's tech all right! According to Google, the Tech video was last viewed 9 hours, 43 minutes, 54 seconds in the future!


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From last week's New Yorker:


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From my son:

Some new baby capybaras were born and they are real dang cute!


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You may well have already seen this horror story and quite possibly nearly died laughing. This, evidently, is the tale as told by the original victim, including an actual photo, as grabbed off the web by my sister and mailed out to everyone she knew, had known, or ever will know.

So, last week, something pretty tragic happened in our household. It ( Read more... )

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