The Antarctic Icefish can survive sub-zero temperatures Celsius because of natural antifreeze in its blood and bodily fluids. It also has transparent blood due to a lack of hemoglobin.
(Photo via Wikimedia Commons)
I lack hemoglobin but my blood isn’t transparent. What a rip off.
1. Read novelist Teju Cole’s amazing article: “The White Savior Industrial Complex”. A lot has been written about KONY 2012 but this is brilliant.
2. Follow Teju Cole on twitter.
3. Read more about his tweets, which he calls “small fates”
Samuel, telling it like it is.
Hundreds of students at several Miami area schools staged walkouts for slain Florida teen Trayvon Martin today. Above, students form ‘TM’ on a football field. Read more at NBC Miami.
So glad to see the ground swell around continue growing.
The gorgeous creatures that populate Keaton’s new music video for “Small Hands” can’t possibly be puppets, can they? They’re too graceful, too emotional to be made of fabric and felt!
Astronaut Ron Garan did an AMA on reddit. This photo was his reply when asked, “Have you seen anything when looking down on earth or into space that has you completely awed that is captured in your memory for the rest of your life?” It’s the illuminated border between India and Pakistan, as seen from the International Space Station.
Realizing what this picture depicted had a big impact on me. When viewed from space, Earth almost always looks beautiful and peaceful. However, this picture is an example of man-made changes to the landscape in response to a threat, clearly visible from space. This was a big surprise to me. (…)
The point is not that we can look down at the Earth and see a man-made border between India and Pakistan. The point is that we can »
We truly need songs like this in 2012. I love Potato Salad! @emilymphocyte
:oD
Come for the song about potato salad, stay for the insane acrobatics.
Epic Time-Lapse Escape: The Stars From Orbit
We’ve seen plenty of GIFs and time-lapses of stars and #starporn, but none precisely like this. It seems like Earth is often the star, instead of the stars themselves.
Nice to see that change. Full screen, HD, enjoy 🙂
Beautiful, beautiful video for a Sunday morning.
Knight News Challenge: Massive Multimedia Storytelling, the Future of Journalism
1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]
Enable anyone to curate video stories in space/time, contextualized through data-journalism and open content to create massive multimedia stories.
2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? [30 words]
Voice of…
Story Time of the Day: “Take a picture and save our species, we have 300 left”: NatGeo photographer Mattias Klum recalls the time he came face-to-face with an endangered Asiatic lioness in India’s Gir Forest.
[ichc.]
Knight News Challenge: Alive.in/ Video Journalism from the Frontlines
1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]
Develop alive.in/ as a social network for content from international video journalists, using our mobile app, and youtube directly.
2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? [30 words]
GlobalVoices is…
Keep your fingers crossed for Small World News, we’re stepping up our game this year.
Is the biggest viral video in history Christian fundamentalist propaganda? Invisible Children’s founder lays out his agenda at Liberty University.
This is what journalism looks like.
(via drwh0)
“A lot of people fear Christians, they fear Liberty University, they fear Invisible Children – because they feel like we have an agenda. They see us and they go, “You want me to sign up for something, you want my money. You want, you want me to believe in your God.” And it freaks them out.”
—- Jason Russell, speaking at Liberty University, November 7, 2011
We’re done here.
(via mohandasgandhi)
Mos Def remixes jay z and kanye. Don’t get caught up in no throne.
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PBS Off Book on the Animated Gif
