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Here’s a website with a collection of historic pictures of the city of my birth.

I like these r-rated classic movie scenes made into Pixar style art. I’d read these book if someone made them, but I won’t read them to my kids. Yet.

I think I have seen every one of the films depicted.

From Don Boudreaux’s news story, Minimum Grade:

WASHINGTON (CH) – In a bold effort to improve the educational fortunes of students who perform at academic levels significantly below the average of their peers, Congress has mandated a minimum grade to be assigned to each student in each course taught at any school in the country. Starting in September, it shall be unlawful for any teacher, professor, or instructor charged with assigning course grades to assign to any student a grade lower than C-.

Don’t look too long at these hypnotic animated GIFs.

Like the coffee shop vibe but hate coffee? Need to focus, but it’s too quiet or the background noise is too distracting? Coffitivity promises an ideal level of ambient noise to focus on work and get things done.

Research shows it’s pretty hard to be creative in a quiet space. And a loud workplace can be frustrating and distracting. But, the mix of calm and commotion in an environment like a coffee house is proven to be just what you need to get those creative juices flowing.

Zen Pencils never fails to inspire. The latest entry about Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield tells a beautiful success story.

Feb. 24, 2013. A tiger plays with a pig before killing it at the Sumatra Tiger Rescue Centre compound, inside the Tambling Wildlife Nature Conservation (TWNC) near Bandar Lampung, Indonesia.

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Promoting old books with new movies

“The Happy Godfather”: The original soundtrack from the Godfather played in a Major scale! (by MajorVsMinor)

How Search Works - The Story - “ Behind your simple page of results is a complex system, carefully crafted and tested, to support more than one-hundred billion searches each month. ”

That Damian Wayne is a creepy kid.

China’s air pollution has been bad lately. Really, really bad. We’ve posted photos of it before, but the above shot really drives home how severe this has gotten.

Is there a pope?

U.S. overlaid on the Moon for a sense of scale:

How big is the Moon, really? Reddit user boredboarder8 provided some perspective with this image of the Moon with an overlaid United States. It’s roughly estimated (and others would be better at commenting on the accuracy better than me), but after some back-of-napkin math it seems about right. The area of the United States, not including Alaska, is a little over 20 percent of the Moon’s surface area. [via io9]

rough-and-tumblr:

babbling brook.

Language communities of Twitter (European detail) (by Eric Fischer)

You had one job

Mistakes will be made in the march towards the future. But the worst possible mistake is neglecting to do the work required to get there because you think we’ve already arrived.

— John Siracusa - Hypercritical: Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow

A flash of lighting is seen over St. Peter’s Basilica during a rainstorm at Vatican.

(via The Best Pictures of the Week: February 8 – February 15 - LightBox)

50 Years Ago: The World in 1963