February 2012
35 posts
Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year's... →
bookoisseur:
Google is currently making a pair of glasses that will be able to stream information to the wearer’s eyes in real time. According to several Google employees familiar with the project, the glasses will go on sale to the public by the end of the year.
Plant blooms after 30,000 years in permafrost →
infoneer-pulse:
A plant that last flowered when woolly mammoths roamed the plains is back in bloom.
Biologists have resurrected a 30,000-year-old plant, cultivating it from fruit tissue recovered from frozen sediment in Siberia. The plant is by far the oldest to be brought back from the dead: the previous record holder was a sacred lotus, dating back about 1200 years.
» via New Scientist
“The bad news is that state funding for California libraries has been completely...”
– Goodbye, state funding for California libraries | KALW (via unlibrarian)
“But though her recent actions and their impact on those she loves preoccupy her,...”
– Sinead O’Connor’s ‘How About I Be Me (and You Be You)?’ - NYTimes.com (via immlass)
Medieval Thedas: What is tea? →
medievalthedas:
Very specifically, “tea” is a drink made from the Camella sinensis plant. Several drinks commonly referred to as tea aren’t; they are drinks made with plants steeped in water, but the plants are not C. sinensis. Chamomile and red tea, for example, are not actually “tea.”
It’s always interesting…
January 2012
40 posts
Maurice Sendak teaches Stephen Colbert to write a... →
Watchthekidshouldseethis:
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, one of this years Oscar nominees for best Short Film (animated). We really, really enjoyed this.
You can read more about its inspirations (Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz, and Hurricane Katrina, to name a few), its makers, its message (about the power of story), and its iPad app at LATimes.com.
