For all those people who have faught, or are still fighting. Who got through it, or who didn’t.
beautiful
This…
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sugarandsmoke.: Amidst your days so busy with “liking” statuses on facebook and...
Amidst your days so busy with “liking” statuses on facebook and reblogging tumblr photos, talking about that girl in your chem class who’s so annoying and fat or how much you hate your english homework.. pause the first person shooter, your ipod, your action-packed Hollywood blockbuster and consider for just a moment.
Ruin your day by thinking about the people who have nothing. The five year old children working in the sex trade or the forty year old man on the streets of some poor village who has reached his maximum life expectancy. Think about the woman dying of leprosy or the protester who was just shot for voicing their opinion. Think about the mother who will die in childbirth because she is too poor to afford birth control and abortion is illegal in her country. Think about how many people within thirty miles will go without dinner tonight. Think about the animals in shelters who will be destroyed after 72 hours because some irresponsible owner suddenly decided that it was no longer aesthetically pleasing, that it wasn’t “cute” enough.
It doesn’t have to be sad - Think about the women who have been elected head of state / president in Israel, India, Kyrgyzstan, or Haiti, and wonder, why not here? Think about the triumph of South Africa as, with the help of Nelson Mandela, they overcame apartheid. Think of how easy it is for you to learn about whatever you want to learn about - You have the world at your fingertips, between the internet and books. Think about Freiburg, a german city that uses solar power as their main source of energy.
Think.
About your planet. About the future. About religion. About anything.
Stop, take a deep breath. And think.
It’s the least you could do.
-Jo Fitzgibbons (das me.)
A well-nourished man stealing maize from a starving child too weak to put up a fight during a food distribution effort led by Doctors Without Borders.
More than 70,000 Sudanese people died that same year during a famine made worse by drought and fighting between government and rebel forces.
Ajiep, Sudan - 1998
It rips my heart
this just fucking…. fuck… im pissed
Yeah okay photographer, feel free to just stand there. I see this and I think of
this photo, and the story of the man who took the picture. As rumor has it, the child died of starvation and the photographer took his own life - But you know how people tend to glamourize these kind of stories, who knows if that was true or not.
Regardless, this photo makes me ill. People like this take the humane out of humanity..
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The slow-motion disaster of the food crisis in the Horn of Africa is truly horrifying. Last Wednesday the United Nations declared a famine in two large regions of Somalia; 3.7 million people, nearly half the country’s population, are affected. The crisis is larger than just Somalia. Right now the devastating drought in the region means that more than 11 million people need food aid across Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia.
You can help by making a contribution through the Tumblr Dashboard or on the Somalia tag page, and we’ll match your support up to $10,000. Proceeds will go to the United Nations World Food Programme.
"The tragedy of Somalia, where tens of thousands of children died due to the lack of even a piece of bread and a drop of water, is a shame for the international community… The Somali people are gradually being dragged to death before the eyes of the world."
— RECEP TAYYIP ERDOĞAN, Prime Minister of Turkey, said that the international community and the United Nations were being “tested” in an unprecedented way. He urged “the entire international community should act with a sense of utmost urgency to support the efforts to build peace and stability in Somalia.” (Transcript) (via newsflick)
"Freedom cannot be prescribed by a society committed to colonizing the mind; any time spent awaiting this antithetical event only serves to hinder our collective evolution."
— Zisa O. (via truths89)
UC Berkeley scientists have developed a system to capture visual activity in human brains and reconstruct it as digital video clips. Eventually, this process will allow you to record and reconstruct your own dreams on a computer screen.
more here
OH MY FUCKING GOD YES MY DREAMS ARE COMING TRUE EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL
Can’t wait.
i love it when sci-fi starts becoming just straight-up life
I’m imagining how different YU+ME might have been if Fiona had had one of these.
For me, most of the coolness of dreams is emotion that can’t be recorded.
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Introducing…The URBEE - The World First PRINTED Car (WIDK)
Posted to WIDK by Emily Moore
(Daniel Bates, Daily Mail) — The world’s first ‘printed’ car has finally rolled off the printing press.
The ‘Urbee’ was made using a special printer which built up layer upon layer of bodywork - almost as if the car was ‘painted’ into existence, except using layers of ultra-thin composite that are slowly ‘fused’ into a solid.
But unlike most ‘innovations’ in cars, this one won’t break down after 5 years - Urbee is built to last 30. Project leader Jim Kor, told MailOnline today: ‘For us, this unveiling was quite a milestone.
Underneath is a petrol and electric hybrid engine which helps make it one of the greenest cars in the world.
Experts have said the car uses eight times less energy than a similar vehicle and can go can go 200mpg on the motorway.
It also has a sleek, futuristic design which makes it look like a prop from a science fiction film like the Fifth Element.
The ‘printing’ process, however, it what has attracted so much attention: it was completely different to the normal way car manufacturers build a car, which is to bolt chunks of bodywork on where they need to go.
Engineers on the Urbee instead put layers of ultra thin composite material on top of each other so they become fused together to make it 3D in a process called ‘additive layer manufacturing’.
Kor says, ‘We are a small group of designers and engineers in Winnipeg trying to make a difference.
‘Making things this way could revolutionize how we produce things. It has certainly changed my way of thinking about manufacturing.
‘This process of 3-D printing turned into ‘digital manufacturing’ would change the way we replace parts within machines.’
The Urbee, which took 15 years to make, has three wheels, two seats and a combustion engine in case of emergencies.
It can be charged for a few pence from a normal plug socket or from a small solar panel array or wind turbine.
The Urbee has a small single cylinder engine that generate a mere eight horsepower, yet it can go up to 70mph if necessary because it is so light and efficient.
Even driving around the city it can do 100mpg and Canadian firm Kor EcoLogic, which designed it, insists that it could become a viable runaround for normal people.
Project leader Jim Kor told the TEDxWinnipeg conference that the vehicle was amongst the greenest ever made.
He said the way it was printed ‘only puts material where one needs it’.
‘It is an additive process, building the part essentially one ‘molecule’ of material at a time, ultimately with no waste,’ he added.
‘This process can do many materials, and our goal would be to use fully-recycled materials.’
Although the prototype has finally been completed it will be some time before the Urbee is available to buy in car showrooms.
The team behind it still have to raise the money for a second prototype, which will be at least $1million (£610,000).
Even then it will cost up to $50,00 (£32,000) to buy new, although the price should drop if it is mass produced.
Other professions which have shown an interest in additive layer manufacturing including medicine with some suggestion that prosthetic body parts could eventually be ‘printed’ to the size and shape they are required.
Wow, I didn’t think they were already at the point of printing complex machinery! Awesome!
My whole dashboard today has been a reminder of how we are living in the goddamn future.
I WANT ONE
"Over the past 25 years, Muslim majorities have elected five women as heads of state in the Muslim world (Tansu Ciller in Turkey, Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan, Hasina Wajed and Khaleda Zia in Bangladesh, and Megawati Sukarnoputri in Indonesia). Notwithstanding our verbiage of female empowerment and liberation, we have yet to elect a single woman as president in the US. The Quran is the only sacred text that devotes an entire chapter to the rights of women. In fact, women in Europe could not inherit property independent of their husbands up until the 18th century. Islam over 1,400 years ago gave women the rights of inheritance, work, and hold public office. But the misperception of a Muslim woman that is veiled and oppressed guides our thinking."
“On September 11, the loudspeakers of the second twin tower in New York were giving stunning orders. When the tower started to creak as people ran down the stairs the loudspeakers were ordering everyone to return to their workstations.
Those who survived, disobeyed.”
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The lifetime ban on blood donations by homosexual and bisexual men will be lifted in England, Scotland, and Wales.
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