I'm Human A video by the students of Liberty Middle School in Madison, Alabama. Featuring the students and faculty of Liberty Middle School, Bob Jones High School, and James Clements High School; and the music of Sigur Rós. (SLYT)
posted by BitterOldPunk
on Jan 17, 2012 -
12 comments
ImmorTall is a
game short glimpse of an alien's life as it is caught in the midst of humanity. It's not really a game that you can win or lose, there are no bosses or leveling up. It's a beautiful but sad look at humanity.
posted by schyler523
on Mar 1, 2010 -
23 comments
What the World Eats A photo slide show of images taken of families around the world, and the food they consume in one week. The commentary also provides the amount of money they have to spend, and what their favorite meals are.
posted by Dave Faris
on Jun 5, 2007 -
117 comments
While there have been many posts on Mefi of blogs written by those affected by the Iraq War, I have not seen this one posted. No matter your stance on the war, your opinion of American soldiers, or the amount of other Iraq war blogs you've read, all I ask is that you
at least read these few entries. I've used too many words already, when the journal does more than enough to speak for itself.
A Soldier's Thoughts. (via) [more inside]
posted by wander
on Feb 7, 2007 -
13 comments
National Geographic has a special
issue on Africa out this month. There's also their Africa
resource site.
posted by Gyan
on Sep 21, 2005 -
17 comments
The Nature of Normal Human Variety A talk with
Dr. Armand Leroi (his
website).
"Almost uniquely among modern scientific problems [the problem of normal human variety] is a problem that we can apprehend as we walk down the street. We live in an age now where the deepest scientific problems are buried away from our immediate perception. They concern the origin of the universe. They concern the relationships of subatomic particles. They concern the nature and structure of the human genome. Nobody can see these things without large bits of expensive equipment. But when I consider the problem of human variety I feel as Aristotle must have felt when he first walked down to the shore at Lesvos for the first time. The world is new again."
(via Arts & Letters Daily)
posted by Kattullus
on Mar 29, 2005 -
17 comments
Google Compute is a
distributed computing project involving users of the
google toolbar. It's a light application which uses idle processor cycles to analyse data for "
carefully selected charitable projects, with the guiding principle being to help humanity and advance scientific knowledge".
posted by walrus
on Nov 1, 2002 -
5 comments
Refugees denied human face. 'Taking photographs that could "humanise or personalise" asylum seekers was banned by former defence minister Peter Reith's office, the Senate inquiry into children-overboard claims was told yesterday.'
posted by kv
on Apr 17, 2002 -
27 comments
