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POPSTop ten green architecture projects of 2008 From LEED platinum superstructures to innovative recycled and reclaimed buildings to ground-breaking monuments that integrate incredible new technologies, read on the year’s best and brightest developments!
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POPSElements brought to life online from BBC News: The chemical elements are being brought to life online in a series of YouTube videos filmed at a UK university. The project by a team in Nottingham is designed to stimulate interest in chemistry and comprises videos illustrating each of the 118 elements. They feature a variety of experiments, some of which are too dangerous to be performed in classrooms. In the videos, scientists also recall personal anecdotes and amazing facts about each element in the table, from hydrogen (1) to Ununoctium (118).
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POPSThe beauty and terror of science A good history of science unreels like the practice of science itself. It wends through a world of experiments until a new reality arises. But the more layered story of that journey is that science is not just a process but is the men and women performing it. In his radiant new book, "The Age of Wonder," Holmes treats us to the amazing lives of the pioneering sailors and balloonists, astronomers and chemists of the Romantic era. Making good on the book's subtitle, he takes us on a dazzling tour of their chaotic British observatories and fatal explorations in African jungles, showing us "how the Romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science."
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POPSGIN, TELEVISION, AND COGNITIVE SURPLUS A Talk By Clay Shirky from the talk: "We're going to look at every place that a reader or a listener or a viewer or a user has been locked out, has been served up passive or a fixed or a canned experience, and ask ourselves, "If we carve out a little bit of the cognitive surplus and deploy it here, could we make a good thing happen?" And I'm betting the answer is yes. "
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POPSWe All Like A Good Story "The cruelty of the fraudulent ones is that they will inevitably make us distrustful of the true ones — a result unbearable to think about when the Holocaust itself is increasingly dismissed by deniers as just another “amazing story.” Early on in my research for my book, another very old woman suddenly grew tired being interviewed. “Stories, stories,” she sighed wearily at the end of our time together. “There isn’t enough paper in the world to write the stories we can tell you.” She, of course, was talking about the true stories. How tragic if, because of the false ones, those amazing tales are never read — or believed."
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POPSWho We Are We are clippers. :) Clippers with varied political and religious backgrounds grew tired of the tyrants who wished to rule them and banded together to promote liberty and independence. They produced an amazing variety of clips to promote these ideas and to turn public opinion to their way of thinking. The ingenuity, optimism and apparently inexhaustible enthusiasm made the revolution's success possible. Clip Song
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POPSMe And My Girls "But was it really all thus? When memory is called to answer, it often answers back with deception. How is it that almost every warm bar stool contains a hero, a star of his own epic, who is the sum of his amazing stories? If I said I was a fat thug who beat up women and sold bad coke, would you like my story? What if instead I wrote that I was a recovered addict who obtained sole custody of my twin girls, got us off welfare and raised them by myself, even though I had a little touch of cancer? Now we’re talking. Both are equally true, but as a member of a self-interpreting species, one that fights to keep disharmony at a remove, I’m inclined to mention my tenderhearted attentions as a single parent before I get around to the fact that I hit their mother when we were together. We tell ourselves that we lie to protect others, but the self usually comes out looking damn good in the process. "
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POPSAtta Girl!!! Inspiring :) (courtesy of the amazing moonbattery.com) Excellent idea from a gal who really walks her talk. Check out what she did: Thanks to the wonderful “Pin-Ups For Vets” supporters who purchased hundreds of calendars, the 2007 fundraiser was a success. Here's a quick re-cap of the 2007 highlights: *** I made many visits to our hospitalized Veterans and Wounded Warriors to deliver the donated calendars. *** I mailed hundreds of calendars to our courageous deployed troops, to our honorable retired Veterans, and to supportive civilians here at home and around the world. *** I partnered with a non-profit group to arrange the delivery of hundreds of care packages to our troops overseas. *** I raised thousands of dollars for programs that benefit hospitalized Veterans. *** I received four American flags that were flown by military units in Iraq in honor of the "Pin-Ups For Vets" project. *** I rode in a "Salute to Veterans" parade and sold my calendars there. *** Th
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POPSFull of SCHIP This is the family the Democrats chose to represent SCHIP? If there was a more perfect family why SCHIP should not be expanded its this one. They are doing quite well with their own business, a 3000 square foot house with a beautiful kitchen And on top of all that they send their kids to private school. Now this is what our tax dollars should be going to!
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POPSGood job making that baby By Maggie Mason from MightyGirl. BNM says: With the latest crop of celebrity babies, the magazine covers are loaded with "how I lost the baby weight" stories. The outright disdain and loathing that Hollywood has for body fat is sad. You can't even create an entire human being without someone curling their lip at your glorious birthing hips, your nourishing thighs, your comforting breasts, your full joyful face. My body is more than my size. My body is amazing.
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POPSTop 100 Sci-Fi Short Stories. When I see a list. I know what is on the list is going to depend on who is making the list. There are some predictable ratings, but there are generally surprises. When looking at Sci-Fi fiction lists, it continues to be amazing that there are so many authors writing who were hardly recognized, but produced high quality work. Short stories are great because they can be read without like seeming like a project. They are also good for training our minds to read epics.(I've just clipped the two ends of the list.)
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POPS15 Most amazing co-incidences There are 15, and 14 in the clip the rest can be found following the bottom link. I had a really weird co-incidence that took over 10 years to unfold. I was hit by a bike, while getting out of a bus in 1985. I never met the rider. In 1990 I was hit by a car while running across peak hour traffic. I was quite prepared to admit I was responsible I shouldn't have crossed the road, but I was waiting for a bus and wanted to get across the road and back before the bus came. The peak hour traffic was flowing at 45 mph. I never met the Driver. In around 1997, My Nan discovered (she liked to keep things like this in a diary) that one of her friends that she had met at the retirement village. was grandmother to both the rider, and the driver. While there may have been a co-incidence, I still can't help thinking the fact that I'm still alive is a miracle. (Maybe I've just got a reinforced skull)
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POPSA Soldier's Story Part I Return to Tarawa to discover a battlefield covered in garbage and human waste, and the unspeakable disgrace of having hundreds of fallen American heroes " including a man posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor " buried under parking lots and septic tanks. There are somewhat graphic images, and a few moments of salty language " but this is something I would encourage you to watch with your families, simply because it is so heartbreaking. If we do not often remember the cost of our freedoms, we will surely lose them. Listening to what these boys did for us " and that’s what they were: teen-aged boys, for the most part " brought home to me the debt we owe these remarkable men. It is the very least we can do to listen to their stories. They are amazing stories, funny and tragic and full of wisdom, and I mean to tell as many of them as I can, from World War 2 up through the present.
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POPSSam Harris appeal for Ayann Hirsi Ali : Urgent. This is a direct link to the security trust set up for Ayann's protection. Even 10 dollars a month from readers will ensure her safety for life. I am so grateful to be able to play a small but essential role in her life: I think she is absolutly amazing and I am inspired and humbled by her work.
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POPSTotally amazing artwork in sand.....i'm awestruck This great performance recently aired on Ukraine’s Got Talent. What country doesn’t have a Got Talent show these days? Anyway, I think this artist could win on any talent show. Kseniya Simonova tells stories using sand and light. This story leaves the audience awestruck. It’s both tragic and sweet. By the end there wasn’t a dry eye in the house. Simonova took home the grand prize. Can’t argue with the judges on this one.
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POPSCAT STUFF This is a wonderful site for cat lovers - both practical and impractical stuff.
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POPSChuck Palahniuk : Author I met Chuck at a book signing in Toronto a few years back. I was sooooooo nervous and while shaking his hand, a funky ring i had on somehow got caught on his sweater . We shared a good laugh while his handlers tried to untangle us. He is a great writer and a good sport, lol :)
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POPSJust for Fun (but too late for Halloween) ..."There's a world that exists beyond this one. Here you'll find haunted places, true ghost stories, ghost photographs and video, tips for ghost hunting, plus information on life after death, reincarnation, past lives and more."
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POPS"My Guantanamo Diary" Seven years, hundreds of thousands dead, millions displaced from their country, several trillion dollars spent (including estimates of future costs), and all we've really got to show for it is ... (drum-roll) ... a sentence of 5.5 years for Osama's driver. Fracking amazing.
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POPSSolar Weather Light Show Find more ways to see and collect amazing real images of Earth's magnetic field protecting us from Sun Storms. Learn more about Earth and get fabulous images from NASA and their partners. I love the interviews of the Inuit elders and the older scientists who first began the science station in the Arctic. Very cool stories.
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