Parti Communiste Français Headquarters, Paris, France.
(Arch. Oscar Niemeyer, Jean Deroche, Paul Chemetov, Jean-Maur Lyonnet & Jean Prouvé, 1965-80)
Photo by Carlos Traspaderne with Hasselblad 500 C/M & Kodak film.
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Cross section of the midship section of the HMS Olympic (1909).
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Ritterburg in the snow by Caspar Scheuren (1810–1887)
how do i make my 300 sq foot apt look like this?
“But if a man doesn’t have a job or an income, he has neither life nor liberty nor the possibility for the pursuit of happiness. He merely exists…”
In 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. had begun to organize the Poor People’s Campaign. It was a multiracial effort aimed at alleviating poverty regardless of race in order to build the network needed to achieve the goal of redistributing political and economic power. King had shifted his focus to these issues after observing that gains in civil rights had not improved the material conditions of life for many African Americans. Just as King was beginning this campaign he was assassinated.
In April 1968 King had answered a call from Memphis activists who needed him to help energize a sanitation workers’ strike, a cause for economic justice that would be his last. King aligned with the struggle of the poor and black sanitation workers in Memphis and suggested that their struggle for dignity was a dramatization of the issues taken up by the Poor People’s Campaign—a fight by capable, hard workers against dehumanization, discrimination and poverty wages in the richest country in the world.
In his final speech King stated: “Now, let me say as I move to my conclusion that we’ve got to give ourselves to this struggle until the end. Nothing would be more tragic than to stop at this point, in Memphis. We’ve got to see it through. And when we have our march, you need to be there. Be concerned about your brother. You may not be on strike. But either we go up together, or we go down together.“
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Anonymous asked:
What are some of the coolest things you’ve learned about bee intelligence, if you don’t mind me asking?
zoologicallyobsessed Answer:
Well the last research I was working on was to do with context-dependent reversal learning using the decoy effect.
So I offered bees a choice between 2ml of four different concentration of sugar water choices; 20%, 30%, 40% and 60%, and tested these as binaries (so 20%vs.30%, 30% vs. 40%, 40% vs. 60% and 20% vs. 60%). As expected the bees preferred the higher sugar concentration over the lower.
So context-dependent reversal learning showing the decoy effect is when you introduce a decoy option. The decoy option is asymmetrically dominated this means that (using my bee experience as an example) it is an option that is inferior in everyway to one option but to the other option it is inferior in some aspects but superior in others. So the decoy option for me was 0% sugar water (so just water) but offered 5ml instead of 2ml like my other options.
So when it came to bees picking between lower concentrations such as 20% vs. 30% or 30 vs. 40% (which were often pretty even) the introduction of the a third decoy option made the percentage of their original choices suddenly shift.
Now bees were preferring the higher concentration way more than before, because the introduction of the decoy made the higher concentration option (or dominate option) seem more attractive!
This is the decoy effect! And it’s something that also effects humans and is often used in marketing and consumerism. Here’s a human example of the decoy effect using the cost of MP3 players as an example:
Consideration set 1:
The original choice between two options. Some consumers will prefer “A” for its greater storage capacity, while others will prefer “B” for its lower price.
Consideration set 2:
Now we add a third option which is the decoy option “C”. Consumers will presumably avoid this option, given that a lower price can be paid for a model with more storage aka. option “A” which becomes the dominating option, “C” is therefore a decoy whose sole purpose is to increase sales of “A”.
This is just stupendous. I love the cheeky little slitherer in the top left getting away with what looks like a whole slice of pizza
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Photographer Ray Collins is known for his striking portraits of waves, some of which I’ve featured on previous occasions. Collins is colorblind, so he focuses heavily on shape and texture in the wave, which produces some stunningly dramatic views of moving water frozen in time. There’s great power and beauty in breaking waves, and researchers are still actively learning just how significant they are to our planet’s cycles.
Note the spray blurring the edges of every wave here; these are some of the largest droplets the wave will make. As it crashes forward, the wave traps pockets of air, and, as those bubbles burst, they will create a spray of tinier droplets that carry moisture and salt into the atmosphere to seed clouds and, eventually, rain.
Collins’ work reminds us both of the ocean’s power and its fragility as it undergoes rapid changes due to humanity’s influence. For more photos as well as a great interview with Collins, check out My Modern Met. (Image credit: R. Collins; via My Modern Met and James H.)
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Contrastes del mundo, por el artista turco Uğur.
The contradictions inherent to Capitalism.
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