Coffee vs. Tea Infographic
Coffee vs. Tea Infographic
Month: June 2011
Coffee vs. Tea Infographic
This up to 1000 years old snow has metamorphosed into highly pressurized glacier ice that contains almost no air bubbles. Thus it absorbs the visible light despite the scattered shortest blue fraction, giving it its distinct deep blue waved appearance. This cavity in the glacier ice formed as a result of a glacial mill, or moulin.
Rain and meltwater on the glacier surface is channelled into streams that enter the glacier at crevices. The waterfall melts a hole into the glacier while the ponded water drains towards lower elevations by forming long ice caves with an outlet at the terminus of the glacier. The fine grained sediments in the water along with wind blown sediments cause the frozen meltwater stream to appear in a muddy colour while the top of the cave exhibits the deep blue colour.
Due to the fast movement of the glacier of about 1 m per day over uneven terrain this ice cave cracked up at its end into a deep vertical crevice, called cerrac. This causes the indirect daylight to enter the ice cave from both ends resulting in homogeneous lighting of the ice tunnel.
Statue of Soviet US Superheros
A group of pranksters in Bulgaria painted a statue of soviet soldiers to look like a group of All American Superheros.
Twenty years ago you would have been shot for stepping too close to this monument in Sofia in Bulgaria.
But after the smashing of the Berlin Wall, statues celebrating communist rule appear to be fair game to the graffiti artists of the former Soviet block in Eastern Europe.
An anonymous artist transformed Russian Red Army soldiers from a monument in the city of Sofia, in Bulgaria, into popular superheroes and cartoon characters.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
Either you negotiate to make the whole bigger, to have both sides benefit—or you negotiate to have the other side lose. Winning by punishing the other side isn’t a particularly long lasting or satisfying strategy.
Daily *ism: Surrealism
Today’s Daily *ism is another artistic (revolutionary) movement that came out of the modernist period:
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members.
Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur; however, many Surrealist artists and writers[who?] regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost, with the works being an artifact. Leader André Breton was explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was above all a revolutionary movement.
Surrealism developed out of the Dada activities during World War I and the most important center of the movement was Paris. From the 1920s onward, the movement spread around the globe, eventually affecting the visual arts, literature, film and music of many countries and languages, as well as political thought and practice, philosophy and social theory.
5 Lessons from IBM
They’ve made it 100 years, so must be doing something right. Here’s the flash notes, click through for the details:
- At the start, convince the troops you’re a company of destiny, even if that seems crazy.
- Build a cult-like culture that people either buy into, or run away from.
- Bet the company once in a while.
- Make people talk about you.
- Hand off to a successor who is better than you.
DVDLater – Save Theater Movies to your Netflix Queue
DVDLater – Save Theater Movies to your Netflix Queue
Although it’s fairly simple to look up movies in Netflix that haven’t been released on DVD yet, here’s a hand web-app that lets you browse movies that are either in the theaters or on their way to the theaters and save them into your Netflix queue.