This is fucking insane! People being UNARMED still face such violent treatment by the police. Ofc the media called the peaceful protest a RIOT but people have to know the truth. Indigenous people were brutally attacked by the law enforcement today.
It’s an army VS unarmed people who only want to protect their land, water and legacy.
I will not keep silent. Let us stop ND Police from further violence & abuses in Standing Rock!!!
Congrats to Colson Whitehead for winning the National Book
Award for fiction with The Underground
Railroad — a novel considered by many to be an inevitable American classic!
These people, for example, forgetting to make themselves happy built the entryway but forgot to build the building used up all the wood & coal & sky & ice & light Now ¿Dónde viviremos?
This week’s PEN Poetry series features two poems by Eleni Sikelianos.
Today I visited the Little Metropolis a very small byzantine church in central athens. It was built in the 14th century using only spolia! Every stone used is either of antique or byzantine origins.
It is absolutely fascinating to look at every small detail and wonder about it’s where it came from.
This church has so much history combined in it’s architecture alone it is wonderful to have seen it for it is an absolute beauty!
The triglyphic frieze in pic two probably belonged to the Eleusinion on the northern slope of the Acropolis. The crosses torches with the pomegranates, the Kernos jar and the Bullshead are familiar motivs of the eleusinian mysteries. And a similar architectural element can be seen on the small Propylon in Eleusis.
The two people in pic 7 are from a roman funerary relief. The cross between their heads was added during the construction of the church in the 14th century. Most of the spolia were altered during construction to add iconographic motivs of christianity.
The frieze above the round bow above the door in pic 8/9 from a classic temple if I remember correctly.
Continued from “can we opalise a human” Photo one is of an Opalised fish vertebrae,
Photo two is of an opalised femur of a hypsilophodontid dinosaur from Lightning Ridge. Further proof that human bodies can be opalised.
How long would it take for human remains to opalise/how many generations will have to wait before their ancestor’s bones can be dug up and turned into family heirlooms?
Over millions of years, most of the opalised stuff we are finding now is from the Triassic time.
- Jelly
ok but can we artificially speed up the process
In theory, it’s never actually been done as far as I am aware of due to the costs it’d take to run.
First off you’d need a body, certified by scientists as suitable. Then you’d need a lab. A big old vacuum chamber which could maintain 100% Oxygen deprivation. Someone to cook up your synthetic opal mix which would also have to be trialed on several things before this. Then somewhere in the vacuum chamber to fill and store the synthetic opal mix and wait for things to get going. It would still take an absolute age to do and rushing it would cause different crystal structures to form.
- Jelly
for more inspiration on crystallizing dead shit, I’d highly recommend @tylerthrasherart awesome alchemy…
Thanks for sharing the photos are really cool but the process is completely different by the looks of things. Opalisation washes away the organic materials completely.
The electoral college does not vote until December 19th. We have 40 days.
What does this mean?
Right now, the presidential election results are only a PROJECTION of the election outcome. They are PRELIMINARY RESULTS. A candidate still needs to earn 270 electoral votes to win. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, which means that more than 50% of the voters wanted her for president. The electoral college shouldn’t guarantee an override of the public’s opinion– and it doesn’t have to.
There are 21 states that do NOT restrict which candidate the electors vote for. Out of these 21, Hillary lost the following:
As you can see, these states are worth 166 electoral votes. As it currently stands, Hillary Clinton is projected to receive 232 votes. Trump is projected to win 306. This means that 37 votes need to be taken away from Trump to bring him down to 269. Hillary Clinton needs 38 votes ADDED to win 270. These electoral voters can also abstain, which means that they can refuse to vote for either candidate. If 37 of the voters within these states abstain then no candidate will have reached the required 270. In this case, the vote would be taken to the House.
Trump won Pennsylvania, a state that typically votes blue, by less than 100,000 votes. While it is highly unlikely to get all 20 electoral voters to cross party lines and vote democrat, it also isn’t impossible to convince a few of them to be “faithless electors.” We only need to convince 38 out of the 166. That is 23%. There are SIXTEEN states we need to focus our attention on.
A move like this would be unprecedented. However, as we all saw on November 8th, odds don’t guarantee reality. Trump had a less than 20% winning, yet given the circumstances, enough people came together and made it happen. We can make this happen.
Ask yourself this: What do we have left to lose?We can stay complacent and accept that this country will be run by a racist, sexist, islamophobic, homophobic, ablest bigot, or we can at least try.
How?
SPREAD THE WORD. Trend #NotMyPresident to let people know that we do not accept being led by a man who does not care about our wellbeing. Email your professors, email the dean of your colleges. The last thing a university wants is negative press. Millenials can take a stand, but that doesn’t mean we have to be the only ones. Church-led events helped bring a lot of disillusioned voters to the polls. Spread the word in any way possible, whether it be on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, or even in person. Stage a peaceful protest. Hand out flyers. Let the people around you know that you don’t accept this man as your leader when he won’t even accept you as a citizen with your designated rights.
These 166 people need to face the consequences of electing this man.
Do this for the people who couldn’t vote. Do this for the people who live in the very real fear of being deported. Do this for the people who will have to face the rise in hate crimes. Do this for the people who have a very real possibility of losing their rights. Do this for the people who will no longer afford necessities.
This month we are exploring all that the violin has to offer. Whether you have heard the delicate beauty of the instrument as part of a string quartet performance or have been taken aback by how striking the instrument can be in a symphony, you certainly are aware the effect the violin can have. Here are a few obscure facts about the string instrument:
A 3-string version of the violin was portrayed in an early 16th Century painting from Ferrera, Italy, thought to be used as solely a dance-music instrument.
The colloquial term for a violin is the “fiddle,” often referring to when it is specially tuned and played in a folk style.
The electrofonic violin is a semi‐electric instrument developed in 1938 by Marshall Moss, leader of the National Symphony Orchestra, Washington, and William Bartley, an engineer.
While India has its own tradition of bowed instruments referenced in ancient music treatises and mythical accounts of India, the violin was swiftly adopted by Indian musicians following its introduction in the 18th century through French traders on the eastern coast.
Image credit: “Violin after Jakobus Stainer 18th. century” by Frinck51, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
