Ginger Rogers playing Backgammon in “Having Wonderful Time” (1938)
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Mario’s got the right idea
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Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality? | NYT
After more than 4,000 years — almost since the dawn of recorded time, when Utnapishtim told Gilgamesh that the secret to immortality lay in a coral found on the ocean floor — man finally discovered eternal life in 1988. He found it, in fact, on the ocean floor. The discovery was made unwittingly by Christian Sommer, a German marine-biology student in his early 20s. He was spending the summer in Rapallo, a small city on the Italian Riviera, where exactly one century earlier Friedrich Nietzsche conceived “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”: “Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again… .”
DUST concrete stools…Dunbar Spring, Tucson AZ
Detroit in Ruins by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
The two Parisiennes Marchand and Meffre strive to visit places that have been long forgotten. During this, they take unforgettable pictures that bare an abandoned and haunting beauty that is rare to find within this modern world.
Check out more of these images on their official site.
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Peace Corps Volunteer Tiffany Saria works with Grassroot Soccer in Zambia, using soccer to teach HIV-prevention. She uses innovative curriculum, games and soccer activities to education youth about HIV transmissions and life skills.