Described as a “child prodigy” and hailed as the first astrophysicist to win a Nobel Prize for his theory on the evolution of stars, Diwali on Thursday would have been Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar’s […]
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Happy 242nd US Navy, 220th USS Constitution
It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious. — George […]
R.F. Kennedy’s Great Speech for Humanity
We must recognize the full human equality of all of our people before God, before the law and in the councils of government. We must do this, not because it is economically advantageous…We must do it for the single and fundamental reason that it is the right thing to do.
Muhammad Ali, “Remember me…”
An unsurpassed legacy has reached its temporal conclusion. The greatest sports figure and celebrity of the 20th century has passed. Rather than mourn his death, we continue to celebrate his […]
The End of Literacy and Reality in the Age of Trump
Pulitzer prize–winner Chris Hedges charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy and illusion. Chris Hedges argues that we now live in two societies: […]
Animated Short by Salvador Dali and Walt Disney
Destino An animated collaboration between Salvador Dali and Walt Disney. 1946.
Mobile Theater | by Gordon Parks
The photograph was taken 2 years after the historic Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling segregation is unconstitutional. Gordon Parks was an outstanding, prolific, African American, photographer who […]
First, Best Images of Pluto | NASA
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the first in a series of the sharpest views of Pluto it obtained during its July flyby – and the best close-ups of […]
Gojira, what Godzilla is in the words of the Japanese
“Godzilla represents the complicity of mankind in its own destruction.” Godzilla does not feel emotion…Godzilla is emotion ~ Jun Fukuda, director Godzilla could not be defeated by the weapons that […]
Whitman in color
A stunning piece. A colorized portrait of Walt Whitmanm. So well done, long surpassing the pink color of past works. Very life-like, especially the transparent blue […]