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fascinations • nuisances
"Peace Through Education. Stealing the Light."
This inspirational documentary by Rock Creek Productions of Asheville, NC, received a fab review from Booklist. Great film for educators and activists. Do check it out. More information at www.rock-creek.com.
A survivor of the United States’ atomic attack on Hiroshima, still hospitalized two years later, shows the damage to his hands, 1947 by Carl Mydans
(After Hiroshima: Portraits of Survivors)
NASA Animation of Temperature Data from 1880-2011
Via The Climate Desk, “a journalistic collaboration dedicated to exploring the impact—human, environmental, economic, political—of a changing climate. The partners are The Atlantic, Center for Investigative Reporting, Grist, The Guardian, Mother Jones, Slate, Wired, and PBS’s new public-affairs show Need To Know.”
Fashion week 1943, the first one ever. Thanks to “Threaded,” the sartorially inspired blog of Smithsonian Magazine, for this fun post.
Threaded - Your go-to fashion blog for all things historical and sartorial
While interviewing my ladies for my new book,
"The Girls of Atomic City," I heard countless stories about nylon shortages. Wonderful to come across this Smithsonian piece today.
Time for a coffee break.
Girl worker at lunch also absorbing California sunshine, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (Library of Congress)Palmer, Alfred T., photographer.
1 transparency : color.Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
This just in!
My wife and sometimes co-author Denise Kiernan just got the cover of her next book, The Girls of Atomic City, about the women who unknowingly worked to create the fuel for the first bomb.
It’s a true story—a narrative nonfiction title that will be published by Touchstone/Simon & Schuster in March 2013.
I’m proud of her. It’s a project she’s been working on, in various ways, for the last seven years or so.
To find out more, you can check out Denise’s website…
Sign up for the newsletter at the book site…
Check out her old-timey WWII-era images on her Tumblr blog.
You can pre-order via Amazon.
Or pre-order a signed copy via our indie bookstore, Malaprops.
I’ll post again about this when she gets a trailer together.
Thanks to my hubby for posting this. I can take no credit for designing this cover, but I am so very happy with it. Book is finally feeling real after all these years…
OK. Why did it take me so long to experience the joy and delight that is a Melodysheep remix? This video, “Symphony of Science,” reminds me of all the reasons I love physics, while still understanding so little of it.
Enjoy!
Keep On Cooking...
From pbs-food:
Julia Child would have turned 100 on August 15th! In her honor, PBS Digital Studios brings you a special birthday treat: a funky new Julia Child remix that celebrates her wisdom, wit & superb kitchen skills. Please share with your friends!
Join the PBSFood #CookForJulia Birthday Party, including rare videos, photos, tributes from your favorite chefs and more fun at http://www.pbs.org/juliachild
This is our jam!
Julia has been auto tuned! Brilliant remix by melodysheep, aka John D. Boswell. So bring on the roasted potatoes for one of the great ladies of all times. Off to go sauté something….
Do you like Fonts? Who doesn’t. They’re pretty sexy.
From Simon Garfield’s excellent book.
Two of my favorite things, together at last: the periodic table and fonts.
This delicious image was adapted from “Periodic Table of Typefaces,” copyright Camdon Wilde/Squidspot.com, with additional commentary from Just My Type author, Simon Garfield.
Ceremonies mark 67th anniversary of Hiroshima atomic bomb attack
Top Photo: Kimimasa Mayama / EPA
Bottom Photo: Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP - Getty ImagesArata Yamamoto, NBC News reports from Tokyo — As dignitaries from 71 countries joined a crowd of 50,000 on Monday to mark the 67th anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bomb attack, Japanese officials vowed to revamp energy policies in the wake of the devastating Fukushima nuclear accident.
Ceremonies mark 67th anniversary of Hiroshima atomic bomb attack
Top Photo: Kimimasa Mayama / EPA
Bottom Photo: Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP - Getty ImagesArata Yamamoto, NBC News reports from Tokyo — As dignitaries from 71 countries joined a crowd of 50,000 on Monday to mark the 67th anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bomb attack, Japanese officials vowed to revamp energy policies in the wake of the devastating Fukushima nuclear accident.
Hiroshima
At the time this photo was made, smoke billowed 20,000 feet above Hiroshima while smoke from the burst of the first atomic bomb had spread over 10,000 feet on the target at the base of the rising column.Two planes of the 509th Composite Group, part of the 313th Wing of the 20th Air Force, participated in this mission, one to carry the bomb, the other to act as escort, 08/06/1945
Process. Action. Monday.
Thinking a lot about process, productivity, mental clarity this weekend. Was treating my black locust deck with Brazilian Rosewood oil (very green and non-toxic, for anyone looking for a wood treatment along those lines) and the constant application and ragging off was quite meditative.
Lists. Getting Things Done. It all boils down to choice and getting stuck in that choice moment can result in mental paralysis. The answer? More often than not, there is no right choice, only action and a mental alignment with the reality you want to create.
And wine helps, too.
Subject: Olympic Games, 23 July 1923
“It is the policy of the Department, therefore, to urge the men of the Navy and Marine Corps to take part in all contests requiring physical skill, manliness and courage…”
July 4 interviews
My husband and sometimes co-author Joseph D’Agnese and I got some good press over the holiday. Recent interviews with NPR, PBS NewsHour and more can be found here.
