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Excuse me while I go get a hammer…
Today’s absolutely fascinating must-read.
Excerpt:
It sounds crazy. But Muybridge is actually one of a number of people who’ve miraculously developed artistic, musical, or mathematical abilities as a result of a brain injury. There’s Orlando Serrell, who was struck in the head with a baseball as a 10-year-old and found he could remember the weather for each day following his accident. There’s Derek Amato, who woke up after hitting his head at the bottom of a pool and became a master pianist at 40, despite lacking any sort of musical training. There’s Alonzo Clemens, whose verbal and cognitive abilities stopped developing at the age of three due to a head injury but who can assemble incredibly detailed sculptures of animals in a matter of minutes.
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(via theatlantic)
Here in Chicago, “The Plant”- an old meat-packing plant being turned into a low/no-waste vertical farm- is receiving quite a bit of national attention. It’s a cool model, and a story that will definitely continue to develop.
“Edel was interested in ways of bringing back manufacturing jobs to the city,” explains Melanie Hoekstra, director of operations at The Plant. The building is uniquely suited to food production; it contains food-grade materials (these allow for legal and safe food preparation) because of its meatpacking history. Instead of combining farming with other types of manufacturing, The Plant is sticking entirely to food—and lots of it.
(via npr)
A new batch of “Melby’s Mess” amber lager is good to go, and a stack of dishes awaits a certain roommate… (Taken with Instagram at Export HQ)
Picture of the Day: Boys pose for a photograph in Bnei Brak during the Hewish festival of Purim (via @guardian)
Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AP
Boys pose for a photograph in Bnei Brak during the Jewish festival of Purim. More images from the festival in our slideshow
Penguin Horror Classics.
Please be real. Please be real.
