Really, Cooper?

scinerds: Living Wall These vegetated surfaces don’t just look...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 12:05:52 +0900

Living Wall

These vegetated surfaces don’t just look pretty. They have other benefits as well, including cooling city blocks, reducing loud noises, and improving a building’s energy efficiency.What’s more, a recent modeling study shows that green walls can potentially reduce large amounts of air pollution in what’s called a “street canyon,” or the corridor between tall buildings.

For the study, Thomas Pugh, a biogeochemist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, and his colleagues created a computer model of a green wall with generic vegetation in a Western European city. Then they recorded chemical reactions based on a variety of factors, such as wind speed and building placement.

The simulation revealed a clear pattern: A green wall in a street canyon trapped or absorbed large amounts of nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter—both pollutants harmful to people, said Pugh. Compared with reducing emissions from cars, little attention has been focused on how to trap or take up more of the pollutants, added Pugh, whose study was published last year in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.

That’s why the green-wall study is “putting forward an alternative solution that might allow [governments] to improve air quality in these problem hot spots,” he said.Compared with reducing emissions from cars, little attention has been focused on how to trap or take up more of the pollutants, added Pugh, whose study was published last year in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.

That’s why the green-wall study is “putting forward an alternative solution that might allow [governments] to improve air quality in these problem hot spots,” he said.

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Jeanne de Clisson, Lionness of Brittany

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 12:00:15 +0900

historical-nonfiction:

She was born Jeanne-Louise de Belleville, Dame de Montaigu in 1300. At the age of 12, she was married to 19-year-old Geoffrey de Châteaubriant, by whom she had two children. In 1326, the marriage ended with the death of Châteaubriant. Four years later, in 1330, Jeanne married her second husband, Olivier III de Clisson. This union was an especially close one; Olivier and Jeanne were of an age and seemingly content, as they had five children together.

Her second-time’s-the-charm bliss ended, however, when Olivier defected to the English side during the Breton War of Succession. He was captured, found guilty of treason, and beheaded. Jeanne de Clisson swore revenge on the king who killed her husband.

She sold off all her lands, and bought three ships. Jeanne had them painted entirely black, with red sails. The ‘Black Fleet’ took to the waters and began hunting down and destroying the ships of King Philip VI. She would kill most of their crew, personally beheading any noblemen as her noble husband had been killed. But Jeanne made certain to always let a handful of sailors go, to report to the king that the “Lionness of Brittany” had bested him again.

For thirteen years, Jeanne de Clisson was the scourge of the French navy. Even the death of her enemy King Philip VI didn’t stop her from kicking ass and taking ships. She managed to keep the English Channel free of French warships during a stretch of the 100 Years’ War, before happily retiring to England.

rustycrowe: kate

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:59:31 +0900

rustycrowe:

kate

caitlincato: djlegz: I don’t like sports, but the Bearcats are...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:54:12 +0900

caitlincato:

djlegz:

I don’t like sports, but the Bearcats are my new favorite team.

This guy is perfect.

itsjohnsen: Biplanes atop the Imperial Japanese aircraft...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:51:31 +0900

itsjohnsen:

Biplanes atop the Imperial Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi. Osaka, 1934.
Shizuo Fukui

usagov: Image description: Afghan Air Force 2nd Lt. Niloofar...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:51:12 +0900

usagov:

Image description: Afghan Air Force 2nd Lt. Niloofar Rhmani walks the flightline at Shindand Air Base, Afghanistan prior to her graduation from undergraduate pilot training May 13, 2013. Rhmani made history May 14, 2013 when she became the first female to successfully complete undergraduate pilot training and earn the status of pilot in more than 30 years. She will continue her service as she joins the Kabul Air Wing as a Cessna 208 pilot.

Learn more about Rhmani from the U.S. Air Force.

kakijbird: that blasted phantom, always one step ahead !

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:50:49 +0900

kakijbird:

that blasted phantom, always one step ahead !

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Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:50:30 +0900

agates-link: every day of my life

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:49:42 +0900

agates-link:

every day of my life

zenpencils: A tribute to ROGER EBERT

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:49:09 +0900

zenpencils:

A tribute to ROGER EBERT

agates-link: gdkjvigfcjkhvigcljvgifkjhvd...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:47:17 +0900

agates-link:

gdkjvigfcjkhvigcljvgifkjhvd aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

gingerhaze: feminspire: alyssakorea: Tumbling over the past...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:34:12 +0900

gingerhaze:

feminspire:

alyssakorea:

Tumbling over the past year and a half has made me see the problems of gender roles that exist in media, but sometimes it gets to the point where I over analyze every single piece of television or film that I come across. (However this in no way means that I think feminist media criticism is wrong, or should be avoided!) Mostly I just over think everything.

I’ve thought about this a lot and I think the answer is MORE, and MORE DIVERSE female characters.

We’re used to having one or two female characters in a cast of mostly men, and hold them to a higher standard because of that. So all of feminism is resting on the shoulders of one female character - and that DOESN’T WORK. Because there isn’t one right way to be a woman.

If casts had more diversity of gender, we could have warrior women and non-warrior women, sexual women and non-sexual women, feminine and non-feminine, and mixtures of all of the above…all are completely legitimate ways to be a woman.

We’re used to seeing a lot of hypersexualized, scantily clad, one-dimensional stereotypes of women without stories or motives of their own. We respond by asking for characters that AREN’T THAT, but we may end up pushing too far in the opposite direction, and demonize traits like sexuality, conventional attractiveness, and traditional femininity as “sexist.” That’s why the most popular female characters are the ones that are most similar to male heroes - the Arya Starks - emotionally distant, unattached, solve their problems with violence, not remotely sexual. That’s fine too of course. I love Arya. It’s just not…the only way to be.

ladyhistory: ruem: wunderscheisse: blaien: so this...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:33:54 +0900

ladyhistory:

ruem:

wunderscheisse:

blaien:

so this commercial is being taken down and off of tv after Cheerios got complaints from people about how this commercial is promoting bi-racial families. as a child coming from a bi-racial family i’m actually astonished and disgusted. it’s 20 fucking 13 people, get a grip.

Wait what

What then can we all just spread this around online cause it’s pretty damn cute

THIS IS DAMN ADORABLE.

tballontumbler: How did Rabbit not end up murdering people? I...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:32:29 +0900

tballontumbler:

How did Rabbit not end up murdering people?

I forgot how much i missed them

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Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:32:12 +0900

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Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:31:42 +0900

"Fans of the first film really wanted to find out what happened to Peggy afterwards, so Marvel are..."

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:28:04 +0900

“Fans of the first film really wanted to find out what happened to Peggy afterwards, so Marvel are also making a short film, which is basically ‘What Peggy Did Next’, which will be shown at Comic-Con and be on the DVD extras of the second film (Captain America: The Winter Soldier). So as well as doing a bit in the new film, I’ve got a whole new spin-off short film. It has been great to be back in training with the stunt coordinators, kicking some butt again.”

- Hayley Atwell

I gotta just stop for a second and read this again and have a big dopey grin on my face because, goddamn, Marvel, you are doing it RIGHT. Ten years ago, no studio would have done SHIT for Peggy Carter post-movie, but Marvel’s going, “What’s that? You liked her lots and thought she was interesting? Here, HAVE A TINY MOVIE.”

Plus, you seem to be continuing making efforts to diversify your casting by bringing in characters like Sam, and bringing back Heimdall and Rhodey (in the biggest role he’s had in an Iron Man film with 3), and you’re courting Zoe Saldana for Guardians and continue to take original character back stories that have a bit of a sexist tinge to them now (a bunch of your females were models or actresses or nurses, and Betty Ross was just the general’s daughter) and making them scientists (Sue, Betty, Jane, and Jean Gray) while still keeping some characters with their original back stories (Mary Jane is still an actress) because you seem to get that women can have ALL KINDS OF CAREERS.

You not only handed Pepper Potts Stark Enterprises, but you never, ever played the “the business is failing and Pepper is blamed” card. In fact, you have always played, “Pepper is fucking awesome at business and life card.”

You also cast Sitwell with a Latino actor without making some big thing of it (same as you cast Hemidall), and you went with Ult!Fury and Samuel L. Jackson and every time you’ve put a woman in a dangerous situation, she’s gotten to save herself in one way or another (and sometimes just straight up completely).

You all don’t always bat 1000, but you seem to be aiming for it like crazy, and I really appreciate the hell out of that.

(via anthonyedwardstarks)

peerintothepast: “There Will Always Be An England”-WWII Bomb...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:27:02 +0900

peerintothepast:

“There Will Always Be An England”-WWII Bomb site chalking 1940

Sleeping Beauty concept art by Eyvind Earle

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:26:30 +0900

Sleeping Beauty concept art by Eyvind Earle

historical-nonfiction: The picture, it turns out, is the only...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:26:10 +0900

historical-nonfiction:

The picture, it turns out, is the only color photo in existence documenting German command giving up Northwest Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark to the allies. It was discovered in 2009, when a clerk for Field Marshal Montgomery (the one accepting the surrender) who had secretly photographed the momentous event, decided to sell it to the highest bidder.