don't get any big ideas
May 22
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~ Your Highway ABC Book, by Jay H. Williams, 1935
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Favorite post-grad gift to self @everlane excited to move onto the silk shirts #postgrad #shirt #tees #love #everlane #softandlovely
May 21
Francis Alys - Fabiola (2008)
“The story of St. Fabiola, a 4th-century Roman aristocrat from the Fabia family who is supposed to have been an early Mother Teresa, became popular in the late 19th century, and an 1885 portrait of her by a French academician (which is now lost) has since been endlessly copied around the world.
Appearing on postcards, posters and religious trinkets, Fabiola has been a beloved subject for countless painters, most of them amateurs. The portrait’s format is almost always the same: Fabiola is seen in profile facing left, her head covered by a rich red veil.
Mr. Alys, who was born in Belgium in 1959 and moved to Mexico City in 1990, began collecting Fabiola paintings—as the genre is called—about 15 years ago, buying them at thrift shops, flea markets and antiques stores primarily in Mexico and Europe. He has previously shown his collection three times, when it was much smaller; the current presentation includes more than 300 works.”
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» mental_floss on tumblr: Wonderful Words With No English Equivalent
Sometimes we must turn to other languages to find le mot juste. Here are a whole bunch of foreign words with no direct English equivalent.
1. Kummerspeck (German)
Excess weight gained from emotional overeating. Literally, grief bacon.2. Shemomedjamo (Georgian)
You know when you’re…
9 female trailblazers in science
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Teen Develops Computer Algorithm to Diagnose Leukemia
“Brittany Wenger isn’t your average high-school senior: She taught the computer how to diagnose leukemia.
The 18-year-old student from Sarasota, Fla. built a custom, cloud-based “artificial neural network” to find patterns in genetic expression profiles to diagnose patients with an aggressive form of cancer called mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL). Simply put, this means Wenger taught the computer how to diagnose leukemia by creating a diagnostic tool for doctors to use.”
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Legislative Update: The Ruth Moore Act of 2013
By Rachel L. West, MSW, LMSW The Political Social Worker An update on the Ruth Moore Act of 2013 (HR 671/S.294), as I reported on a couple of weeks ago here , this bill would improve disability compensation for rape and sexual assault survivor who experienced the trauma will serving. The…
http://www.socialworkhelper.com/2013/05/21/legislative-update-the-ruth-moore-act-of-2013/
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