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Suddenly feeling rather tearful after finishing re-watching the fantastic NY-LON from 2004, chronicling the transatlantic romance of Michael and Edie. Catch it on 4OD.

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Josh Ritter - Change of Time
New Josh Ritter Song, record out May 4
(via brainfo, bunkercomplex, sometimesagreatnotion)

"This morning, I woke up thinking that if something is worth doing it’s worth doing poorly. Which at first seems to be completely opposite of what we always here: “If something’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well.” But I think both are true and should actually be considered together. That anything you do you should do the best you can, but even if you don’t have it perfected before you start, for goodness sake, man, still start."

Shawn Blanc. A Job Should Also Be an Education.

"Poetry matters. Poetry is what elevates the banal and neglected object to the realm of art."

Aimee Mullins

Am I the only person on the interwebs who doesn’t love (or suddenly pretend to love) the small literary canon of J D Salinger?

The composer, Dmitri Shostakovich, serving as a fire warden in Leningrad, on the cover of Time Magazine. 20 July 1942.

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Fiery European Festivals - The Big Picture - Boston.com

The Norseman’s Home

The Norseman’s home in days gone by
Was on the rolling sea,
And there his pennon did defy
The foe of Normandy.
Then let us ne’er forget the race,
Who bravely fought and died,
Who never filled a craven’s grave,
But ruled the foaming tide.

The noble spirits, bold and free
Too narrow was their land,
They roved the wide expansive sea,
And quelled the Norman band.
Then let us all in harmony,
Give honour to the brave
The noble, hardy, northern men,
Who ruled the stormy wave.

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iPad + Numbers + Papers for iPad (pretty please?) = The Ultimate Lab Notebook

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Josh: “Toby, come quick! Sam’s getting his ass kicked by a girl”
Toby: “Ginger, get the popcorn.”

— The West Wing S02E04 “In This White House”.

DNA before Plate tectonics

Its almost unbelievable to think that the the structure of DNA was described [1] a full 13 years before the theory of plate tectonics [2].

[1] J. D. Watson and F. H. C. Crick (1953). “Molecular structure of Nucleic Acids: A structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid”. Nature 171: 737–738. doi:10.1038/171737a0.

[2] J. Tuzo Wilson (1966). “Did the Atlantic close and then re-open?”. Nature 211 (5050): 676–681. doi:10.1038/211676a0.

(More landmark Nature papers here)