Thursday, December 29, 2011
Tim Wetherell
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
agent orange
Cam Lo, Quang Tri Province. Phan Thi Hoi bathes her 14-year-old son, Bui Quang Ky. She was exposed to Agent Orange when she was in the North Vietnamese Army during the war. Vietnam, 2004.
In the 1960s, the United States blanketed the Mekong River delta with Agent Orange, a chemical defoliant more devastating than napalm. Thirty years after the end of the Vietnam War, the chemical is still poisoning the water and coursing through the blood of a third generation. From Ho Chi Minh City to the town of Ben Tre—and from Greensboro, North Carolina, to Hackettstown, New Jersey—the photographer James Nachtwey went in search of the ecocide’s cruelest legacy, horribly deformed children in both Vietnam and America. Nachtwey, arguably the most celebrated war photographer of his generation, sees the former conflict in Southeast Asia as a touchstone for his work. “My decision to become a photographer,” he says, “was inspired by photographs from the Vietnam War.” This expanded photo essay from the land of Agent Orange makes clear, according to Nachtwey, that “the effects of war no longer end when the shooting stops.” [Photo Essay in Vanity Fair]
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Friday, December 16, 2011
i want a woman who can...
“I want a woman who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t already know, and make me laugh. I don’t care what you look like, just turn me on. And if you can do that, I will follow you on bloody stumps through the snow. I will nibble your mukluks with my own teeth. I will do your windows. I will care about your feelings. Just have something in there.” - Henry Rollins
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Sunday, December 11, 2011
west bank and gaza strip historical budget
carcinogenic effect and smoking
"We know that the carcinogenic effect is the square of one dose (Higginson, 1988). You double the dose, you square its impact. But we also know that it rises to the fourth power of time; that is to say if you double the time of exposure, that time interval has a fourth power exponential impact. If we take a 60-year-old person who has been smoking a pack of cigarettes a day for 20 years, that person actually has one-tenth the chance of getting lung cancer compared to a 60 year old person smoking one-half pack a day for 40 years."
-Jay H. Lehr, Ph.D. "Toxicological Risk Assessment Distortions"
-Jay H. Lehr, Ph.D. "Toxicological Risk Assessment Distortions"
Friday, December 9, 2011
ooids
Coated grains include oolites, pisolites, oncoids, and oncolites. Oolites (figure below) are formed by a series of concentric layers surrounding a nucleus.
homestake
NASA's Mars rover Opportunityhas found "bulletproof" evidence that liquid water—and potentially habitable conditions—once existed on the red planet's surface, scientists say.
Polistes fuscatus paper wasp faces
Scientists have discovered that Polistes fuscatus paper wasps can recognize and remember each other's faces with sharp accuracy, a new study suggests.
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