October 2011
132 posts
“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via kaleidosc0pe)
Archaeological News: Scientists glimpse inside a... →
archaeologicalnews:
In a small room lined with shelves of skulls, fossils, bones and antique violins, researchers are using advanced computer imaging to study priceless objects, including a mummy from Peru. So what’s inside?
Some patients find CT scanners and other medical imaging devices claustrophobic.
But…
The Hobbit as JRR Tolkien imagined it – in...
worldoftolkien:
When The Hobbit was first published almost 75 years ago, JRR Tolkien provided a set of wonderful illustrations. But buried among the author’s papers were 110 drawings, watercolours and sketches, some of which have never been published before. Here we present some of the earliest images
Source and more images here: The Guardian
“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”
– Jane Goodall (via beautifulwelshvowels)
“The media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely...”
– Noam Chomsky (via cultureofresistance)
“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent,...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via adsuesco-assuesco)
“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via adsuesco-assuesco)
