April 2011
26 posts
“If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would...”
– Cat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut (via powerfulbook)
readingwritingandarithmetic:
Housemartins
Step...
“My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World...”
– Neil Gaiman (via archangelsarefierce)
Science's Genealogy →
visualoop:
Via
What the Luddites Really Fought Against →
As the Industrial Revolution began, workers naturally worried about being displaced by increasingly efficient machines. But the Luddites themselves “were totally fine with machines,” says Kevin Binfield, editor of the 2004 collection Writings of the Luddites. They confined their attacks to manufacturers who used machines in what they called “a fraudulent and deceitful manner” to get around...
A History of the New World Order →
Huffington Post: Why Libya Will Not Be Democratic... →
umalik:
An article mostly missed by many people!
abeautiful-mess:
1820 - the Mayflower of Liberia The first organized emigration back to Africa begins when 86 free African Americans leave New York Harbor aboard the Mayflower of Liberia. They are bound for the British colony of Sierra Leone, which welcomes free African Americans as well as fugitive slaves.
March 2011
51 posts
allthingsboundbylove:
“History is a bag of tricks we play on the dead.”
– Voltaire (via s-elliot-bestvater)
The History of Social Media
radstake:
In Nuclear Silos, Death Wears a Snuggie →
davextreme:
Fascinating article on what it’s actually like to serve in a nuclear silo. You spend years preparing to be ready for a launch order that never comes.
In four years on nuclear-alert duty, I ran through an infinite number of attack sequences and fought countless virtual nuclear wars….
One man's love of bugs is why we have Daylight... →
kevin5280:
Ben Franklin myth? Boring. Farmer myth? Boring. The real story? Great. I wish it would catch on.
