Via nprfreshair:
While by no means exhaustive, you’d be hard pressed to hear a more eclectic sampler of the stuff that makes Texas music great.
Via murketing:
After losing both of his legs in a climbing accident, biophysicist Hugh Herr says he became motivated to do something worthwhile with his life. Today he runs the Biomechatronics group at the MIT Media Lab and designs better prosthetic limbs for other amputees: “My biological body will degrade in time due to normal, age-related degeneration. But the artificial part of my body improves in time because I can upgrade.” [complete interview here]
Inspiring.
Paul Lukas is a genius. He also runs my favorite blog Uni Watch and spent his summer off on this new project. I imagine it will be amazing.This sounds incredible:
The short version: My name is Paul Lukas. Fifteen years ago I came upon a discarded file cabinet full of incredible 1920s and ’30s report cards from a defunct girls’ vocational school. I took as many of the cards as I could carry and then spent the next decade-plus wondering what to do with them. At some point in 2009 I decided to track down some of the students — or, since most of them were likely deceased, their families — and see how their lives had turned out. I’ve spent much of the past two years doing that. This has led to, among other things, numerous instances of calling people up and saying, “Hi, you don’t know me, but I have your mother’s report card from 1929. Would you like to see it?”
The result is Permanent Record, a five-article series that will be running on Slate during the week of Sept. 19. It will tell the stories of some of the students whose report cards I found, the remarkable school they attended (it was called the Manhattan Trade School for Girls), and my own experience connecting the dots between the cards and the students’ families.
Via lizlambert:
Wild turkeys causing traffic delay this afternoon in Marfa.
Via szymon:
All you can get by Ryan Yoon for Virgine Magazine
Via murketing:
Viewed at a magnification of over 250 times real life, tiny grains of sand are shown to be delicate, colourful structures as unique as snowflakes.
Pictures of sand: Close up photographs reveal its incredible beauty | Mail Online