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Living Color

Images of and from our world

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Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei brings white grand piano to muddy refugee field

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei set up a white grand piano in the muddy, rain-drenched refugee Idomeni camp on the Greek-Macedonian border Saturday, allowing 24 year-old Nour Alkhzam, a refugee from the city Deirez Zor, Syria, to play it. The young woman … Continue reading

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‘Neon’ Saturn

Explanation: If seen in the right light, Saturn glows like a neon sign. (Although Saturn has comparatively little of the element neon, a composite image false-colored in three bands of infrared light highlights features of the giant ringed planet like a glowing sign) At the most blue … Continue reading

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Practicing tai chi reduces risk of falling in older adults 

In their study, researchers assigned 368 people 60-years-old and older who had received medical attention for a fall into one of two groups. The first group received hour-long individual tai chi classes conducted by tai chi instructors every week for … Continue reading

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: don’t trust the laws of science

 

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Bacteria found to eat PET plastics could help do the recycling 

Nature has beaten us to it again. It has taken just 70 years for evolution to throw up a bacterium capable of breaking down and consuming PET, one of the world’s most problematic plastic pollutants. Japanese researchers discovered and named … Continue reading

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Hemp Walls Saved India’s Ancient Ellora Caves

MaryJane, is there anything you can’t make better? “The cannabis fiber appears to have a better quality and durability than other fibers. Moreover, the cannabis’ gum and sticky properties might have helped clay and lime to form a firm binder,” Sardesai told Times … Continue reading

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I May Be Old

But I got buttons for all the cool bands. Cleaning my house I came across all my 70s & 80s buttons. These are just the ones from bands I saw, more decorative ones to follow.

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OZ magazine, London 1967-1973

In The Guardian, Chitra Ramaswamy describes the London magazine as “the icon – and the enfant terrible – of the underground press. Produced in a basement flat off Notting Hill Gate, Oz was soon renowned for psychedelic covers by pop artist Martin Sharp, cartoons by Robert Crumb, radical … Continue reading

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Kids Today Have it SO Easy…

When I was a kid…  we had to take LSD to see stuff like this. It was 5 miles to your dealer’s house… … and 25 miles back. And as I can best recall… most of it… was in circles.

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