"…that of course like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised."
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If only he knew.
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Let’s aim for no repeat of the Hurricane of 1938 this weekend.
1938
A wave from a hurricane strikes a seawall in New England.
Over a four-day period, the 1938 storm nicknamed “The Long Island Express” dropped an average of 11 inches of rain over a 10,000-square-mile area. Flooding inflicted major damage through Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and Vermont, causing more than $300 million in losses. In all, 600 people died. Ten of those deaths were in New York City.
(via Live Science)
With the help of a free app called Layar, users point their phone’s camera at an area along the canal and a three-dimensional model of the building appears on top of the modern day canal. The models are to scale, so the buildings grow bigger as the user approaches, and are placed nearly exactly where they stood more than 130 years ago.In Georgia, people can use Layar to view the “long gone buildings of the Confederate Powderworks”.
I hope much more of this will be coming. I will try to do my part to make it so.
Long before Stonehenge was built, well before the Dead Sea Scrolls were written, ancient artists painted life-sized figures on canyon walls in Utah, USA — but why? Nobody is sure. The entire panel of figures, which dates back about 7,000 years, is called the Great Gallery and was found on the walls of Horseshoe Canyon in Canyonlands National Park.
The humans who painted them likely hunted Mammoths. The unusual fuzziness of largest figure led to this mural section’s informal designation as the Holy Ghost Panel, although the intended attribution and societal importance of the figure are really unknown.
The above image was taken during a clear night in March. The oldest objects in the above image are not the pictographs, however, but the stars of our Milky Way Galaxy far in the background, some of which are billions of years old.
Credit & Copyright: Bret Webster
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Timeline of the history of modern education since the 1600s
This timeline of the history of modern education provides not only a glimpse into the past and present, but plots out a plausible future history for human capital development. The future history presented is intended to be edgy, but also as a conversation starter on futures for education and future thinking in human capital development.
Although this timeline is largely U.S.-centric, the trends impacting it are global, especially as we look to the future. Please consult the glossary, below, for additional information regarding many of the themes presented. As always, we invite your feedback and suggestions for further development!
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![More old New York City photos (though not as old as this one):
Penn StationNew York City1958
Photo by Nick DeWolf
Check out more of Nick’s fantastic images at the Nick DeWolf Photo Archive Flickr, run by Nick’s son-in-law Steve Lundeen.
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More old New York City photos (though not as old as this one):
Penn Station
New York City
1958Photo by Nick DeWolf
Check out more of Nick’s fantastic images at the Nick DeWolf Photo Archive Flickr, run by Nick’s son-in-law Steve Lundeen.
[flickr, via matthewknell:matthewtrevithick:]
Hmmm… apparently my Georgetown undergraduate days missed this Roy Rogers (now a Restoration Hardware) on Wisconsin Ave by just a few years.
What Google actually looked like (though I might prefer the fake version).
Google - August 18, 1999. You’ve come a long way, baby…
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Barker at the grounds at the state fair. Rutland, Vermont, September 1941. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Jack Delano. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
This is from a great set of prints from the Library of Congress on the Denver Post web site — Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943 — giving some glimpses into pre-war and war-time America.
Jan. 24, 1935: First Canned Beer Sold
This seems like an anniversary worth celebrating — what’s your favorite can of beer?
Some recent favorites for me were Ha Noi and Ha Long in Vietnam, as well as Leo in Thailand — not the most flavorful lagers, but crisp and perfect with the spicy food on offer.
Jan. 24, 1935: First Canned Beer Sold
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1935: The first canned beer in the United States goes on sale in Richmond, Virginia. By the end of the year, 37 breweries follow the lead of the Gottfried Krueger Brewery.
The American Can Co. began experimenting with canned beer in 1909. But the cans couldn’t withstand the pressure from carbonation — up to 80 pounds per square inch — and exploded. Just before the end of the Prohibition in 1933, the company developed a “keg-lining” technique, coating the inside of the can the same as a keg.
Krueger had been brewing beer since the mid-1800s, but had suffered from the Prohibition and worker strikes. When American Can approached with the idea of canned beer, it was initially unpopular with Krueger execs. But American Can offered to install the equipment for free: If the beer flopped, Krueger wouldn’t have to pay.
So, in 1935 Krueger’s Cream Ale and Krueger’s Finest Beer were the first beers sold to the public in cans. Canned beer was an immediate success. The public loved it, giving it a 91 percent approval rating.
Compared to glass, the cans were lightweight, cheap, and easy to stack and ship. Unlike bottles, you didn’t have to pay a deposit and then return the cans for a refund. By summer Krueger was buying 180,000 cans a day from American Can, and other breweries decided to follow.
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nprfreshair, on the taming of cider in America:
Cider, the alcoholic quaff of a young democracy, underwent a linguistic makeover after Prohibition. It became cider, the nonalcoholic juice of the pressed apple — fit for even children and temperate adults. (Even today, it’s only Americans who call the unfermented, raw juice of the apple “cider.” Everywhere else, “cider” still has a buzz.) Today, we think of cider primarily as something sweet to drink. We pack it on lunch outings. We drink it after school. We drink it hot and spiced after raking leaves. We even drink it after giving blood.
Personally, I like both kinds.
