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C-Stunners
Kenyan artist Cyrus Kabiru poses with some of his artworks resembling sunglasses in Nairobi. Kabiru has created a range of artworks called “c-stunners” that resemble sunglasses but have been made with objects found on the street on the way to his studio. Each piece has its own story, and the series is inspired by his father, who received a beating from his parents for breaking his glasses (via Telegraph)
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USA: Virginia Anti-Abortion Mandatory Ultrasound Protest
“To protest a bill that would require women to undergo an ultrasound before having an abortion, Virginia State Sen. Janet Howell (D-Fairfax) on Monday attached an amendment that would require men to have a rectal exam and a cardiac stress test before obtaining a prescription for erectile dysfunction medication.”
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Huff Po (via rachelfershleiser)
This is the most beautiful thing. Can we send her flowers?
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Ha - wow. Congressional warfare.
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Art masterpieces drawn on an office whiteboard by Bill Taylor - picture gallery
Bill Taylor, 35, is a data manager in Durham, North Carolina, but is an aspiring cartoonist in his spare time. Bill spends between two and five minutes every day sketching famous works of art in marker pen on a whiteboard in his office. (via Telegraph)
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Homewood, Illinois, USA
Workers fill a paupers’ grave at Homewood Memorial Gardens with remains of people who could not pay for a burial. Tough economic times have lead to an increase in the number of indigent burials. Thirty people were buried in this grave. No mourners were present. (via Telegraph)
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Times Square, New York, NY, USA
A billboard worker in a cherry picker does some work on video screen displaying flames in Times Square (via Telegraph)
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Tiny Worlds!
Markus Reugels makes worlds appear in water droplets. He uses high-speed photography to capture the exact moment a droplet frames a planetary backdrop. He places images of the planets in the background and then lets the drop fall, triggering his camera at the correct split-second moment. (via Telegraph)
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Pebble Art
Richard Shilling’s land art involves making sculptures using only natural materials gathered near to where the sculpture is going to be made. He doesn’t use glue or string and some of his work will last only a few short minutes before a change in the weather will sweep them away. Some of his art consists of different sized rocks balanced on top of each other precariously. (viaTelegraph)
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This DIY kit lets you program your plants to tweet whenever they need water. Check it out and discover other nifty tech products in our latest edition of Tuesday’s Tech of the Week.
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If you tell kids that they can get a book with sex in it for free, that might be enough to spark some desire for reading.
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That’s the thesis behind Uprise Books, a nonprofit that is sending low-income students all the good books that have been banned or challenged to promote teen literacy, fight censorship, and halt the cycle of poverty.
Read on: How To Get Kids To Read? Give Them Banned Books
(via fastcompany)
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The best Sopa protests online – in pictures
The Great Internet Blackout in protest of proposed anti-piracy legislation was in full swing on Wednesday, with thousands of websites either shutting down completely or posting information about the bills. The target of the protest is the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) and its Senate counterpart the Protect IP Act (Pipa), both of which are aimed at preventing copyright infringement. Here, photos of the blackout from around the web (via guardian.co.uk)
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Tweets from kids trying to use Wikipedia for their homework—and failing. SOPA!
[h/t gangster curator Katie Notopoulos]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxzcrtxnzC1qzs5cqo1_500.png)
Tweets from kids trying to use Wikipedia for their homework—and failing. SOPA!
(via theweekmagazine)
