I live in Seattle. These are things that catch my attention, pique my
interest and/or make me want to pass notes in class like a 7th
grader
mesmerizing real time map of US wind currents
Can’t … look … away.
Inaugural snowshoeing adventure. I hope there will be a lot more of this in my future.
silly: Baby in a shark costume. Awesome.
(Source: withyoursmilesowarm)
Image description: Public transportation use is at its highest since the 1950s, as shown in this chart that goes through 2009. 2011 levels (not pictured) were second only to 2008. Reasons for this most recent rise in public transit ridership?
- High gas prices, just like in 2008.
- Economic rebound in some areas has more people commuting to work.
- Information technology, like apps that tell arrival times, make it easier.
Rural communities with populations under 100,000 showed the highest growth in public transit use in 2011, at 5.4%
On the graph, “Heavy Rail” means subways and commuter rails. “All Other” includes trolleys, light rail, and more.
Information courtesy of the American Public Transportation Association, an advocacy organization that partners with the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Incredible. Hopefully this will lead to more investment and long term planning for alternative transit.
(via npr)
Earlier this month, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon delivered an incredibly powerful speech at the U.N. in Geneva. It’s not every day that a major world figure speaks out forcefully in defense of equality. But most people didn’t even hear about it.
Why? Because a handful of delegates stormed out of the meeting in protest and their story - that gay people should be denied human rights - dominated the day’s news.
But we are about to change that.
Thank you, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Now let’s take the story back.
(Source: allout.org)
- Dance Yrself Clean
- By: LCD Soundsystem
- This Is Happening
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LCD Soundsystem - Dance Yrself Clean
(via unicornology)
Urban Improv of the Day: For their third collaboration with the Guggenheim Museum (previously, and), Improv Everywhere agents (why yes — that is Pat Cassels) transform a New York City subway car into a “sleeper car,” complete with beds, complimentary pajamas and sleep masks, and a courtesy wake up nudge at the stop of your choice.
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(via theweekmagazine)
seashelllz:wearefirstserve: I want to work like this
These are the lengths people go to when there is no official nap policy.
Feel-good story of the day: The man who used Google Earth to find his long-lost family. Saroo Brierley was only 5 when a train zoomed him hundreds of miles from home. It took 25 years and a technological revolution for him to get back.
“I kept in my head the images of the town I grew up in, the streets I used to wander and the faces of my family.” Brierley spent hours on Google Earth zooming around for clues, obsessively looking for something, anything that he recognized. Finally, he identified his hometown: Ganesh Talai.
Technology for the win.
tiny platypups. You are welcome.
(Source: toocutebabyanimals, via seashelllz)
