July302012
Quotable Arts by Evan Robertson / Obvious State
High quality giclée prints available at etsy. Distilling literary quotes from a handful of the masters down to a single graphic representation, Evan captures the raw concept of the sentence and makes it damn purty to look at as well.
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2PM
Water Purification—A Young Scientist’s Answer
“People are dying because there is no low-cost portable solution for clean drinking water,” writes Sabera Talukder, a sixteen-year-old junior at Los Gatos High School, California. “The top 40 waterborne diseases kill 3.4 million people every year, mostly children.” While visiting Bangladesh with her family in 2011, Talukder decided to help, collecting and testing water samples to reveal that the top waterborne diseases included bacterial, parasitic, viral and protozoal infections. Then, spending less than $25, she created a water purification system. It consisted of a jute bag filled with clay to filter solid materials like twigs, leaves and mud out of the water, a brass or copper mesh to kill insect larvae, a UVc light to kill bacteria, a filter for the membranes and organelles of the dead bacteria, and 30-watt solar panels to power the system. Talukder’s simple but effective project was one of fifteen finalists in the international Google Science Fair competition, and although she recognises that the system is not yet perfect, she hopes to return to Bangadesh soon to implement her project in three different locations. As she puts it, the people suffering don’t need perfection—“the people need a solution now.”
July242012
“Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up. Not really. They get older. But to grow up costs the earth, the earth. It means you take responsibility for the time you take up, for the space you occupy. It’s serious business. And you find out what it costs us to love and to lose, to dare and to fail. And maybe even more, to succeed. What it costs, in truth. Not superficial costs—anybody can have that—I mean in truth. That’s what I write. What it really is like. I’m just telling a very simple story.”
5PM
Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost: Christopher Nolan's Goodbye Letter To The Batman Trilogy.
Alfred. Gordon. Lucius. Bruce … Wayne. Names that have come to mean so much to me. Today, I’m three weeks from saying a final good-bye to these characters and their world. It’s my son’s ninth birthday. He was born as the Tumbler was being glued together in my garage from random parts of model…
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