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Gluten-Free Works of Art.

The Gluten Free Museum is pretty amazing/hilarious.  They take famous works of art and remove the gluten from them, the results are amazing.

You can help make an impact in the art world, support Supersonic Art on Patreon.

#Husky, Stuffedtoy, Bff, Cute

Loved watching this show as a kid

Erin Gray in disguise!

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979), “Olympiad”

Wow.

Huanglong Valley, Sichuan | China (by Nasty Bad Duck)

Want it now. Really fucking do.

It's a Hannah!

Meet Olympian Elena Delle Donne and Her Number One Fan

#BeyondTheGames is a series that spotlights inspiring women athletes in the Instagram community who are telling their Olympic story. To learn more about Elena, follow @de11edonne on Instagram.

Reigning WNBA Most Valuable Player Elena Delle Donne (@de11edonne) will be traveling to Rio this summer representing the United States in the Olympic Games — her biggest fan Wrigley (@thewrigleydelledonne) will be watching from home. “He’s an avid TV watcher,” Elena says of her Great Dane. The 26-year-old is looking forward to teaming up with players she’s been competing against since being drafted by the Chicago Sky three years ago. Prior to the WNBA, Elena became a star playing at University of Delaware, a school close to home, so moving to Chicago was a big change. “It was my first time really being away from home, so I decided to get a puppy,” she says of Wrigley, whose namesake is the baseball stadium where the Chicago Cubs play. “I got him a couple weeks after I threw out the first pitch at the Cubs game.”

Cracking the Glass Ceiling: Margaret Chase Smith and Shirley Chisholm

(via The Unwritten Record )

In this week of firsts, we consider the women who first ran for major party nominations in the United States: Margaret Chase Smith and Shirley Chisholm.

Margaret Chase Smith

Margaret Chase Smith won her first seat in the House of Representatives in a special election after her husband, Clyde Smith, died in 1940. One week later, she was already fighting to serve as more than a placeholder when she went up against four male rivals for the primary nomination to retain her seat. She won that battle, and served four terms in the House. Smith moved on to the Senate in 1949 as the first woman elected to both houses of Congress. At that time, Smith was the only woman in the Senate. Although other women were appointed or elected to fill vacancies resulting from deaths, it was another decade before another woman was elected to the Senate and served a full term.

“Senator Margaret Chase Smith” Local Identifier: 306-PS-50-2756 (NAID: 6802716)

As a senator, Smith quickly claimed the national spotlight when she publicly condemned McCarthyism on June 1, 1950. In her “Declaration of Conscience” speech, Smith decried the baseless accusations that were being lobbed about the Senate and defended “basic principles of Americanism” such as “the right to criticize” and “the right to hold unpopular beliefs.” Smith also disparaged the Truman administration and called instead for unity in issues of national security. The speech led many to speculate that she could be a vice-presidential candidate.

A day in the life of Senator Margaret Chase Smith as she considered whether to run for president.

When Margaret Chase Smith decided to run for president in 1964, it was with apparent reluctance. Her principles dictated that she not miss time on the job as a senator, nor would she accept donations for her campaign. In addition, she planned to staff her campaign with only volunteers and would not run ads on television or radio. Clearly this was not a winning strategy, and so Smith’s run for president was largely symbolic. Despite that, Smith won nearly thirty percent of the vote in Illinois, one of two states where she actively campaigned. She also won votes in Massachusetts, Oregon, and Texas, where she had no campaign presence. At the national convention in July, Smith became the first woman to have her name put forth for the nomination of a major party, and garnered the votes of 26 delegates.

The lead story in this Universal newsreel shows Senator Smith announcing her run for president at the Women’s National Press Club on January 27, 1964.

Barry Goldwater ultimately won the Republican nomination in 1964, and was defeated by Lyndon Baines Johnson in a landslide. Margaret Chase Smith continued to serve in the Senate until her defeat in the 1972 election. In total, Smith served more than 32 years in Congress.

Shirley Chisholm

Before being elected to the New York State legislature in 1964 (only the second African-American woman to serve in that body), Shirley Chisholm spent nearly two decades in early childhood education. That experience drove much of her political career as she fought for the creation of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), federal funds to support childcare, and defending the national school lunch program from a veto by President Gerald Ford.

Shirley Chisholm, shortly after her election to Congress in 1968. Local Identifier: 306-PSC-68-3539 (NAID: 7452354)

In 1968, Shirley Chisholm became the first African-American woman elected to the House of Representatives. Chisholm was controversial from the start; in her first speech on the floor, she spoke against the war in Vietnam and vowed that she would not vote to approve military funding.

Just as Margaret Chase Smith’s political career was coming to an end, Shirley Chisholm launched her own historic run for the White House. Chisholm was the first black woman to run for the Democratic nomination. Her campaign was divisive, as prominent feminists and black activists backed the seemingly more-electable George McGovern over Chisholm. Chisholm frequently said that she faced more discrimination for her sex than for the color of her skin. Still, Shirley Chisholm’s name appeared on the primary ballots of twelve states and she won ten percent of the delegates at the national convention.

In this clip, from a longer film called Accomplished Women (1974), Shirley Chisholm states that she would be surprised if there were not a woman president within 25 years.

George McGovern won the Democratic nomination and was defeated by Richard Nixon. Shirley Chisholm served seven terms in the House of Representatives before retiring to private life.

For more records featuring Shirley Chisholm, see “Unbought and Unbossed: Shirley Chisholm and the 1972 Presidential Run,” from Rediscovering Black History.

via Cracking the Glass Ceiling: Margaret Chase Smith and Shirley Chisholm | The Unwritten Record

The Badlands in Chicago?

Just by quickly looking at this harshly eroded landscape, you might think you were at Badlands National Park in South Dakota. In reality, this image is actually from Thornton Quarry just south of Chicago, Illinois; hardly a place where you would expect to see badlands-like formations.

Badlands landscapes are predominantly erosional terrains. The rocks in these dry terrains are generally softer sedimentary rocks, which can more easily be eroded by wind and water. Features like canyons, ravines and gullies are therefore common in badlands. 

At the Thornton Quarry, they unintentionally create pseudo-badlands formations by dumping large piles of excavated, fine-grained loose sediments. These large piles of sediment are subject to the same erosional forces of wind and water, but because the sediment isn’t lithified, rills and gulllies quickly form along its surface. The surficial processes create noticeable effects under much quicker time-scales than they do in actual badlands areas, but their results are remarkably similar!

(Full view shows you’re definitely not at a real scenic locale!)

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German Shepherd Howls Along With the Timber Wolf Security Guards in Disney’s Zootopia

ARTILLERY SHELLS, MINES, and other ordnance still litter Cambodia, years after the Vietnam War and the fall of the Khmer Rouge. Disposing of them is dangerous work, and nowhere is the task more daunting than under water.

READ MORE: Dive deep with the men clearing cambodia’s bombs by hand.

Selfies from the Flight Deck with @pilotmaria

For more fun from the cockpit, follow @pilotmaria on Instagram.

“#MyStory is about strong females in a male-dominated environment — proving that we are just as good as them, believing in ourselves and keeping a positive attitude towards life.” —international airline pilot Maria Pettersson (@pilotmaria)

“I never thought becoming a pilot was an option for me, because of the high costs and the fact that most pilots were men. I worked hard to save for flight training and studied even harder. The toughest challenge has been to get that first flying job. There were many unemployed pilots fighting for the same job. It took me years. I’m very lucky to be where I am today, flying a young fleet of Boeing 737s around Europe.

“With my selfies I try to catch the moment and the mood I am in. The smiles you see are real and represent the feeling I am having right there. My best advice for taking a top-notch selfie would be: dare to be silly, embarrass yourself and smile — smile with the whole world.”

Andy's awesome!

Musician Andy McKee Performs ‘Streets of Whiterun’ from Skyrim on a Beautiful Combination Harp Guitar

Matryoshka family, March 8 International Women’s Day (Mother’s Day), Soviet Vintage Postcard 1970, Russian nesting doll, babushka by SovietPostcards Buy here: http://ift.tt/29TjiWB

Talk about summer heat. Conservation interns Kelly Conlin and Barbara Fisher spent the day at the Rodin Museum washing the “The Gates of Hell.”

“The Gates of Hell” modeled in clay 1880–1917 by Auguste Rodin, cast in bronze 1926–28 by Alexis Rudier

How to make: Ecuadorian Ceviche

Get the full list of ingredients and recipe.

Oh, no you didn't....

#Romania full #CERN ahead!

“The accession of #Romania to full #CERN membership underlines the importance of European #research collaboration in the quest to understand nature at its most fundamental level,” said Professor Sijbrand de Jong, President of the CERN Council.

Oklahoma City Tornado, 1898

via reddit

This is one of the really interesting methods used by scientists to discover the information shared in Skunk Bear’s new video:

The level of carbon-14 in the atmosphere will soon be indistinguishable from pre-1940s levels, so this method won’t work for much longer.

Motion in the ocean

Plate Tectonics and earthquake hazard assessment has benefited hugely from the existence of GPS technology. Thanks to the global GPS network, scientists can put receivers on different sides of a fault, measure how rapidly plates are moving far from the fault, and locate areas on the fault that aren’t slipping along. These areas of the fault that aren’t moving with the surrounding plate are technically called “slip-deficit regions” – they’re the part of the fault that is locked, building up stress that will at some point be released as a sudden slip in an earthquake.

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HSIEH Chun-Te,

1968-69.

Camera trap, Will Burrard-Lucas

Teruhide Kato (1936–2015) was a contemporary designer and artist. Although widely acknowledged as a kimono designer, in the mid-1980s he abandoned this field to focus on his original artistic interest—the woodblock print. His works depict chiefly the landmarks of his beloved hometown, Kyoto.

Recently there has been a lot of snow on this blog, so I decided to ‘unfreezeʼ it with some vivid colours and memories of spring and autumn. From top to bottom: Autumn in Kiyomizu [source]; Feeling of Spring [source]; Fushimi Inari Shrine [source]; Cherry Blossoms in Moonlight [source]; Autumn View at Tofukuji [source].

Vintage flower postcards, Lot of 8 tulip cards from the 70s, 90s, unused blank post cards, Soviet Russian vintage by SovietPostcards Buy here: http://ift.tt/28R96h8

Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing (1989).

13 Startling Facts About Floods in the U.S. http://daily-infographic.tumblr.com/

I feel like women with depression are still expected to be polite and pretend to be happy in order to keep others happy, while men with depression get to be openly miserable and even rude and their depression can be an excuse for whatever bad behaviour they engage in.