Love Won’t Save Us (poem)
from ahuntersheartSome say you’re lucky
If nothing shatters it.
But then you wouldn’t
Understand poems or songs.
You’d never know
Beauty comes from loss.
It’s deep inside every person:
A tear tinier
Than a pearl or thorn.
It’s one of the places
Where the beloved is born.
-Gregory Orr
Hey, @FutureJProject - I want to see them cross this data with the most literate cities. Amazon did a ranking, here:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?p=irol-mediaHome&c=176060
Anyone on it?
Partners in Crime
The real estate search engine Trulia teamed up with CrimeReports.com, EveryBlock.com and SpotCrime.com to create a crime map of major metropolitan areas in the United States.
Currently in beta, the heat maps show the type and frequency of crimes by neighborhood, with data sets for cities such as Los Angeles, Tampa, Dallas and Philadelphia among others currently in the system.
Above, a detail from Chicago.
Math genius Jeff Hammerbacher, former Facebook research scientist who later co-founded Cloudera. (via copyeditor
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true that.
(via futurejournalismproject)
This Is Informative, You Should Watch It of the Day: Do you consider yourself to be typical? NatGeo promotes its 7-part series on the challenges facing a world with 7 billion people by taking a brief look at what constitutes a “typical” human.
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By looking at global population trends, the most typical person in the world is a 28-year-old han Chinese male. He has a cell phone, but not a bank account. He’s right-handed, and makes less than $12,000 per year.
(Source: thedailywhat)
IRIS: Thom Yorke I’d like to dance la Quebradita with you next!
Nice addition to the Thom Yorke dance vid meme from MexandtheCity.
