interesting things
Man cited for riding camel during Sundance fest…
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An event held on Main Street on Sunday night featured at least one sexually explicit dancer.
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via Hollywood Reporter http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sundance-caa-party-burlesque-dancers-414161
What were the greatest causes of death in the 20th century, our “worst century�
War? Disease? Natural disasters?
We gathered and examined mortality data from  around the world – from disease to murder to mudslides – then calculated and visualised what killed the most people.
The result is a 6m x 2m visualisation art-piece for the Wellcome Collection’s free London exhibition, “Death – A Self Portraitâ€. (open daily until the 24th Feb 2013).
The show explores the iconography and cultural imagery of death, exhibiting totems, death masks and other memento mori from around the word.
The experience culminates – as all things really should these days – with a mega, wall-sized dataviz:
We’ll share the full image and data with you after the exhibition closes.
via Information Is Beautiful http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2013/the-data-of-death-a-visualization/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+InformationIsBeautiful+%28Information+Is+Beautiful%29
Martin Luther King Jr. and Richard Nixon had one of the most unlikely political friendships, but it came apart over an arrest with serious consequences for Nixon’s legacy and civil rights.
via The Daily Beast – Latest Articles http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/21/when-martin-luther-king-jr-and-richard-nixon-were-friends.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29
Obama has left the lightest of footprints on the town he had promised to embrace.
via POLITICO – TOP Stories http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/president-obamas-not-quite-camelot-86480.html
Substitute China for Germany and the United States for Britain, a scholar argues, drawing an inexact but troubling parallel to the year before the start of World War I.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/21/is-2013-the-new-1913/
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — The death toll from the terrorist siege at a natural gas plant in the Sahara climbed past 80 on Sunday as Algerian forces searching the refinery for explosives found dozens more bodies, many so badly disfigured it was unclear whether they were hostages or militants, a security official said.
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Inauguration partying lacks the spirit of 2008. Lauren Ashburn talks to guests about what has changed.
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When Barack Obama is sworn in to office for a second term today, he will use two bibles: One owned by Abraham Lincoln, and second bible, used by Martin Luther King Jr.
Cornel West explains why Obama taking the oath with Martin Luther King Jr’s Bible bothers him.
via MetaFilter http://www.metafilter.com/124067/You-dont-play-with-Martin-Luther-King-Jr
The embodied collective memory of Newsweek, a magazine once printed on paper, for almost eighty years as inevitable as Monday—and then as tangible and indispensable as last month’s tweets—assembled one recent evening on the third floor of the old Herald Tribune Building, on West . . . (Subscription required.)
via The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2013/01/28/130128ta_talk_singer