Happy Birthday Imelda May!

Turks tango in their gas masks as they defy orders of Prime Minister and carry on with protests

via MEMRI

amazing dance routine

Father and Daughter Sing a Beautiful Duet

Benedict XVI: I am not abandoning the Church

Women in Iran playing frame drums

Image from Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi's film Half Moon shot in Iran.

Our Gang Reunion sings Auld Lang Syne

Hurray for the Riff Raff - Full Session

The Reverend JM Gates - Did You Spend Christmas Day in Jail?

Happy Birthday Mark Twain!

Happy Birthday Duane Allman

Hexaflexagons

h/t Primordial Slack

best short film done by a seagull - ever

French tourist Nathalie Rollandin came across a camera-happy seagull recently. She was visiting the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, when she set her GoPro camera down while its was recording. Before she knew it, the camera was being carried away in the mouth of an artsy gull. Once the bird was a safe distance away, it set the camera down and recorded some beautiful footage of itself flying away into the sunset.

via PetaPixel

Questioning Authority: Christopher Benfey on Dickinson Photo

Christopher Benfey, interim dean of faculty at Mount Holyoke College and an Emily Dickinson scholar, provides some insight into the recent discovery of a 19th-century daguerrotype that experts believe portrays the reclusive poet as a mature woman. The only other known image of the poet was taken when she was about 17 years old and a student at MHC.

Obama is in time-out

via Michelle Fields

Happy Labor Day

11 Month Old Twins Dancing to Daddy's Guitar

A New Dickinson Daguerreotype?

Dickinson scholar Martha Nell Smith unveiled this image at a conference in Cleveland recently.

The new daguerreotype was purchased in 1995 (by a collector who chooses to remain anonymous) from among items of an “estate cleanout” offered for sale by a Springfield, MA, junk dealer. The buyer said he had a hunch at the time he acquired it that the woman who appears left-most to the viewer might be Emily Dickinson, and pursued several lines of inquiry to prove his theory. He began his odyssey by trying to determine who the other woman might be....much more at the Emily Dickinson Museum

Mercedes Benz, reprised

Happy Birthday Arlo!

stop and smell the flowers

black wolf

Bodies of Easter Island’s famous heads revealed

The head statuary of Easter Island is instantly recognizable to people all over the world, but who would have guessed that, lurking beneath the soil, these famous mugs also had bodies? The Easter Island Statue Project Conservation Initiative, which is funded by the Archaeological Institute of America, has been excavating two of the enormous figures for the last several years, and have found unique petroglyphs carved on their backs that had been conserved in the soil. Their research has also yielded evidence of how the carvers were paid with food such as tuna and lobster, as well as clues to how the enormous structures were transported.

more at the Easter Island Statue Project

Malta's 6,000 year old Hypogeum - built to alter minds with sound?

Central Hall of Malta's Hypogeum

The Oracle Room, where a male voice speaking at 110 Hertz 'vibrates other minds.'

Spiral ceiling of the Oracle Room

from Linda Moulton Howe

Carolina Chocolate Drops at the Willie Nelson statue