How can you not love a market with a strolling accordion player in knickers? Reading Terminal Market, Philly.

sunfoundation: From The Atlantic: Two researchers, Mark Graham and Stefano De Stabbata, at the Oxford Internet Institute have depicted the world’s “Internet empires” in a map, [above]. The map shows each nation’s most popular website, with the size of nations altered to reflect the number of Internet users there. The map makes for a brief, informative look at how geographic—and universal—certain …

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formascriticas: NEW BANKSY em Manhattan ©Bettter Out Than In  Quem segue diariamente o blog sabe que tenho um especial carinho por streetart e em especial pelo Banksy. Felizmente, já tive a oportunidade de ver algumas paints ao vivo e fiquei, ainda mais fã.  Isto tudo para dizer que, finalmente, o Banksy saiu à rua… Yes! A imagem, em …

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Reading Terminal Market. Probably my favorite place in Philly. I’d eat every meal here if I could.

In the awesome inexpensive street art category. From Kathy LaPlante, National Main Street Center.

Digital motion sickness will be the occupational disease of the 21st century – Christopher Mims

excerpted The better technology gets, the more likely it is to give you a headache or make you throw up. The trend is inescapable: Whether it’s videogames, Apple’s latest mobile operating system, 3D movies and television, or Google Glass, a portion of the population—basically, anyone predisposed to motion sickness—is going to spend their sunset years, when this kind of …

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fastcodesign: 9,000 soldiers etched into the sand to honor those who died on D-Day. More> Co.Create

From the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in Salt Lake City. Great how the overlapping images torque your sense of perspective.

natgeofound: A New York Central Mercury train is dwarfed by Cleveland’s Union Station, November 1936.Photograph by J. Baylor Roberts, National Geographic Love this photo…

Stowe Boyd: Popular Science Drops Comments

Suzanne LaBarre, the online content director of Popular Science, Why We’re Shutting Off Our Comments A politically motivated, decades-long war on expertise has eroded the popular consensus on a wide variety of scientifically validated topics. Everything, from evolution to the origins of… This is sobering but not surprising. I think that one day we will …

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