December 2011
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Watchtheatlanticvideo:
How Christmas Lights Get Recycled
Adam Minter’s video from a recycling plant in Shijiao, China, reveals how the process of chopping up and breaking down the valuable components of holiday lights works. In “The Chinese Town That Turns Your Old Christmas Tree Lights Into Slippers,” he explores the system in more detail.
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“Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the...”
– Václav Havel from The Power of the Powerless, as quoted by Mills (via The Aporeticus)
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– Repose of Rivers
by Hart Crane
The willows carried a slow sound, A sarabande the wind mowed on the mead. I could never remember That seething, steady leveling of the marshes Till age had brought me to the sea.
Flags, weeds. And remembrance of steep alcoves Where cypresses shared the noon’s...
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“While many trans women have died at the hands of Philadelphia police, more have...”
– Michelle O’Brien’s chapter titled “Staylin’ Alive: Trans Survival and Struggle on the Streets of Philadelphia” in That’s Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation (via sistahmamaqueen)
Reluctance →
by Robert Frost
Out through the fields and the woods And over the walls I have wended; I have climbed the hills of view And looked at the world, and descended; I have come by the highway home, And lo, it is ended. The leaves are all dead on the ground, Save those that the oak is keeping To ravel them one by one And let them go scraping and creeping Out over the crusted snow, When others are...
How to be Happy: Another Memo to Myself →
by Stephen Dunn
You start with your own body then move outward, but not too far. Never try to please a city, for example. Nor will the easy intimacy in small towns ever satisfy that need you have only whispered in the dark. A woman is a beginning. She need not be pretty, but must know how to make her own ceilings out of all that’s beautiful in her. Together you must love to exchange gifts in...
Scheherazade
by Richard Siken
Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake and dress them in warm clothes again. How it was late, and no one could sleep, the horses running until they forget that they are horses. It’s not like a tree where the roots have to end somewhere, it’s more like a song on a policeman’s radio, how we rolled up the carpet so we could dance, and the days were...
Astronomers Find Biggest Black Holes Yet →
Lynette Cook/Gemini Observatory via Nature, via Associated Press
An artist’s conception of stars moving in the central regions of a giant elliptical galaxy that harbors a black hole.
Cosmologists have measured the biggest black holes ever found, work that could shed light on the formation and evolution of galaxies.
Rag Trade: H&M Puts Real Model Heads On Fake... →
The bodies of most of the models H&M features on its website are computer-generated and “completely virtual,” the company has admitted. H&M designs a body that can better display clothes made for humans than humans can, then digitally pastes on the heads of real women in post-production.
