They had not been seen together in the museum galleries for quite a while. Monet’s “Women with Umbrellas” are once again side by side in the Impressionist gallery.
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The Panama Papers reveal just how badly the 1% is screwing us over
The biggest data leak in history, known as the Panama Papers, is surfacing evidence of all kinds of unsavory deal-making and corruption among the global financial and political elite, but the biggest revelation: the enormous lengths the rich go to hoard as much of their money as possible. The 11 biggest politicians named in the leak.
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There are far worse ways to spend 90 minutes than being positively inspired. (via @boingboing)
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You know what’s fucking stressful
Being a lil’ baby graphic designer, more or less fresh from uni in your first proper job and you have to be in contact with those people who produce things and stuff and they use all these fancy words for printing requirements and I’m here like “Help me Google-Kenobi, you’re my only hope”
HELLO smol baby graphic designer!
I don’t know who you are, but I’ve been there, and I come from the future with this message of hope:
- It’s not actually as complicated as it sounds. (In fact, it’s not actually as complicated as it used to be, which unfortunately adds to the confusion as you have multiple generations used to different requirements)
- You are NOT alone. “How the heck am I supposed to prep this thing for the printer?” is an incredibly vital piece of the job that most schools totally ignore, for mysterious reasons of their own (My current bet is on hazing).
- It will all be old hat… eventually.
- If you use your google fu and pay attention to setting your files up in a tidy manner in the first place, those production people will fall over themselves thanking you for being one of ‘the good ones’
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Heat map of US regions where “fuck” is a popular curse word.
I love how the entirety of California is orange
Problem. This map does not offer high enough resolution to display the glowing orange spot that is my house.
this is the heartland in which we grow our fucks
you will note that it is barren
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NASA Is Considering The Use Of Soft Robotic Squids To Explore Europa
NASA Is Considering The Use Of Soft Robotic Squids To Explore Europa
follow for more soft robotic squid
finally, nasa is funding my aesthetic
hasn’t anybody read their clarke, c’mon, “all these worlds are yours, except europa. deploy no squid-shaped robots there.”
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3 Soil Inputs that Beat Peat
If you rely on peat for your soil mix, try one of these other more sustainable alternatives.
My latest article on Hobby Farms
Bagged or baled peat is a regular offering at most garden centers,
but in recent years, more attention has been paid to how this histosol is unsustainably extracted from the earth.Peatlands—also called bogs or mires—are unique and vital water-saturated habitats that house a number of threatened species: Acidic-soil
lovers, like carnivorous plants and heathers, are among them. Like
forests, peatlands are carbon-sequestering sinks, often hosting
thousands of years of successive layers of low- and slow-growing plant
deadfall, as well as sphagnum moss.When peat is harvested in strips for use in the garden (or worse, for
use as fuel), these delicate biomes that have taken eons to form are
irreparably damaged. In building gardens that require low pH
or high-organic-matter soil, consider a number of sustainably-produced
alternatives to keep the integrity of these non-renewable ecosystems
intact. Although these solutions require some experimentation, they
provide the basic building blocks for rich organic soil.
Peat is a limited resource and should be saved for things where only peat will do, by which I mean making whiskey.
If you’re interested in wood chip mulch (which is what I use as a weed-suppressor that decomposes into soil amendment) and you live in an area with plenty of trees, talk to local arborists. In big cities they may charge for their chips, but in lots of areas they’re a waste product and you can get ‘em free or for the cost of delivery.
If you have to go to a store and buy it in bags, there’s a good chance it was chipped just for this purpose rather than diverted from a waste stream, so the best bet environmentally in this case is also the best on your wallet!
