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Stanko Abadžić, Miris žene
Anton Giulio Bragaglia, Violoncellist, 1913
“ Love is wise, hatred is foolish. In this world which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don’t like. We can only live together in that way — and if we are to live together and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.
Priceless 1959 BBC interview with Bertrand Russell (via explore-blog)
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Julia Baier, Fürdö, 2010
Anthony Michael Simon doesn’t produce his own art, instead he lets spiders do the work for him.
About the work:
Chicago native Anthony Michael Simon first discovered the artistry of the silk-producing arachnids while trekking through a forest in Korea, where he is currently based, looking for a location for his next sculptural art installation. He came across a huge spiderweb and it somehow clicked in his mind that he could catch spiders and have them naturally spin their webs in his studio.
Damn.
(If you’re just tuning in: the Radiolab tumblr is going on a rainbow spree this week as we get ready for our new hour-long episode, all about colors. Check it out next week at radiolab.org)
Brian Griffin, Leifur with Steinunn Holar Farm, Hornafjordur, Iceland, 2007
Fiery-throated Hummingbird by Glenn Bartley
(Source: earth-song, via wnycradiolab)
Gloria Vanderbilt by Gordon Parks, 1961
Human hippocampus stained with a method pioneered by Italian physician Camillo Gogli in 1873.
Golgi discovered a chemical reaction that allowed him to examine nervous tissue in much greater detail than ever before. For some reason, hardening a piece of brain in potassium dichromate, and subsequently dousing it with silver nitrate, dyed only a few cell bodies and their respective projections in the tissue sample, revealing their complete structures and exact arrangement within the unstained tissue. If the reaction had stained all the neurons in a sample, Golgi would have been left with an unfathomable black blotch, as though someone had spilled a bottle of ink. Instead, his technique yielded neat black silhouettes against a translucent yellow background.More in Scientific American’s Know Your Neurons series.
