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A winter that lasts years isn't just a problem in Game of Thrones. Roughly 1500 years ago, our world was turned upsidown by a winter that witnesses say "never ended." Now there is scientific evidence that there really was a decade of winter. Via F. Thunus No comment yet.
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While athletes are in motion trying to win the game, photographers are making a living out of the most unflattering photos they can get. Via F. Thunus
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If Nie Yongbing was in a comic book, he would probably be ‘Super-Lung Man’ (lame name, I know, but I’m open to suggestions). The 63-year-old has lungs of steel that allow him to inflate car tires using only his nose. Via F. Thunus
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This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Andrew Cote, science junkie: A few things ... Everyone at the beach would get sunburns. Ozone is molecular oxygen and blocks the majority of UV light.
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The cat piano, the ice trumpet, the road that plays Rossini ... Trevor Cox picks the world's weirdest tools for making music
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Lola Jennings- Edquist's curator insight,
August 12, 2013 3:56 AM
What an awesome map! A great resource for teaching kids history- and making it simple to understand, as well as interactive. Can be used in conjunction with the 'Protest Sites' map I scooped above; in a unit on protests and change around the world.
I think it links to most areas of Humanities, which is cool. I showed it to some of the kids from placement and they loved it!
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John Maynard Keynes, one of the founders of modern economics, made a famous prediction that by 2030, advanced societies would be wealthy enough that leisure time, rather than work, would characterize national lifestyles. Via Seth Dixon 
Seth Dixon's curator insight,
September 6, 2013 7:56 AM
Here are two articles that might change how you think about the past: the first discusses historical changes in vacations and holidays (we get less now than ever before) and the second discusses historical changes to sleeping patterns (1 8-hour stint is a new thing). Somethings we erroneously assume that everything is better now than it used to be (or vice versa depending on the issue and your perspective), but the course of human history and is much more complicated than that.
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Today's thugs can trace their ancestry to the highway robbers who formed the Thuggee Cult of India. Via Seth Dixon
Seth Dixon's curator insight,
November 19, 2013 11:51 AM
The word "thug" today as used in the United States rarely brings up images of India. This term since the 1830's connotated a criminality that was endemic to a sub-culture. Whether it was used by colonial British to stigmatize the lower classes of India as barbaric or sub-human or in the United States to describe inner-city youth, it is a term that is loaded will class, ethnicity and gendered notions.
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Seth Dixon's curator insight,
May 2, 2013 12:25 PM
This video is a classic cultural production that is filled with unintented comedy for today's youth (and adults--I laughed plenty). It does chronicle the some of the popular culture interactions among youth in that day and dating practices. It also is a normative production designed to show how things should be within society. This normative element of earlier TV products (like Leave it to Beaver and Father knows Best) means that they aren't prefect reflections of the society that produced them, but represent an idealized form that many believed should be the aspirational goals of society.
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Houses, neighborhoods, and entire towns are abandoned for a number of reasons. However they become abandoned, these areas can be peaceful and haunting to visit. |
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Nature doesn't care about your dance moves. In a video that's surfaced on LiveLeak and is making waves on Reddit, a woman can be seen on Sardinero Beach in Spain busting a move before getting busted up by a massive wave. Via Bonnie Burns 
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January 21, 2014 2:28 PM
Realizing that her dancing isn't going to stop the massive force barreling towards her, she tries trotting over to safety but is caught in the wave instead. Her friends can be seen looking on as she is carried away.
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24-year-old Pavel Sapozhnikov is putting himself through one of the most epic socio-psychological experiments in history. Via F. Thunus
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Choir director Alise Ojay's vocal exercises have been shown to work throat muscles that help silence the snorer within
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With the same photo-finish cameras used in the Olympic Games, filmmaker Adam Magyar slows down the subway commuting experience.
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The Photo.net no words forum contains threads with nothing but photographs. Get involved and post your own.
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This “Histomap,” created by John B. Sparks, was first printed by Rand McNally in 1931. (The David Rumsey Map Collection hosts a fully zoomable version here.) Via Seth Dixon 
Joshua Lefkowitz's curator insight,
January 24, 2014 7:38 PM
Often times I find it hard to think of history as simply a recolection of time. Youspend your childhood looking at timelines and learning history linearly you often forget that this is not the case. I found this work to be very asthetically pleasing and helpful as well.
Joshua Lefkowitz's curator insight,
January 24, 2014 7:55 PM
Often times I find it hard to think of history as simply a recolection of time. Youspend your childhood looking at timelines and learning history linearly you often forget that this is not the case. I found this work to be very asthetically pleasing and helpful as well.
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Seth Dixon's curator insight,
October 2, 2013 6:05 PM
In this 1880 picture we see child laborers taking a smoking break. These miniature adults made be think about the historical changes in childhood and what it meant to be a child. Many children have to grow up real quick. Activity: count the number of ways that would make this image impossible today.
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Explore a global timelapse of our planet, constructed from Landsat satellite imagery. With water diverted to irrigation, the inland Aral Sea has shrunk drama... 
Amanda Morgan's curator insight,
October 19, 2014 8:19 PM
The drying of the Aral Sea opens our eyes to how fragile our environment is and the scarcity of resources. We need to become more aware of our resources, because as they saying goes, the "well will run dry." 
Kevin Nguyen's curator insight,
December 7, 2015 1:14 PM
The massive changes to the Aral Sea can clearly be seen through the course of a decade. It's so unbelievable that from 2000 on ward it shrunk significantly and the video also showed the development of agricultural land that surrounds the rivers feeding into the Sea. The more water being irrigated and are not putting into the Sea the more it dries up because the water is evaporated with little to no rain going back to it. This is definitely one of the worst man-made disaster that have happened to this region. 
Corey Rogers's curator insight,
December 15, 2018 11:44 AM
Aral Sea is getting more and more dried up and not many people seemed to be caring about this issue. What was once a vast and huge sea is now just a drying up lake that will soon be gone forever. People need to wake up and start thinking of ways to fix this issue.
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Give inventor Dean Kamen this: he's a master of buzz. A closely guarded secret that was supposed to change the world upon its release in 2001, the Segway never brought about its promised revolution in... |
