Chemin faisant

• 2013-05-30

  

  positive-press-daily:

  Uruguay launches first BYD battery-electric buses; projecting 500 by 2015

  Buquebus and CTS Auto S.A., in partnership with Chinese automaker BYD Ltd, introduced the first battery-electric 12-meter rapid transit bus in Uruguay and the region.

  The BYD electric bus, powered by two in-wheel electric motors capable of a cruising speed of more than 88 km/h (55 mph) and a Li-ion battery pack has a range of more than 250 km (155 miles)—nearly 24 hours of service daily for most transit applications. The BYD battery technology also allows for a full charge in less than 5 hours. The bus can be charged overnight, while the electricity pricing is lower.

  By 2015 it is expected that more than 500 BYD electric buses will be running on the streets and roads of Uruguay.

  Buquebus is the largest tourism transportation company in Uruguay, connecting more than 2 million passengers in Argentina and Uruguay per year by boat and by bus. Buquebus is also the largest Tourist Agent in South America, selling more than 300,000 hotel beds and 400,000 city tours per year.

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  animalsandtrees:

  60 Years After Man First Climbed Everest, the Mountain Is a Mess
  

  “…The tiresome, dangerous crowds aren’t the only problems on Everest. All those climbers need to bring a lot of gear — and much of that gear ends up being left on the mountain, sometimes even the summit itself. Mount Everest — once the most remote and forbidding spot on the planet — is becoming the world’s tallest trash heap.”

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  treehugger:

  Plug your gadgets into the window with The Window Socket

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  chutesdimages:

  Bill Oddie’s BankWatch (by GlobalWitness)

  “Why was Bill Oddie evicted from HSBC’s London HQ? Watch the film to find out. Sign petition for change here: 

  https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/hsbc-sarawak

  The UK’s biggest bank has so far made around £100 million by providing loans and services to some of the most destructive logging companies in the world, often in violation of its own policies. Please sign the public petition to HSBC CEO Stuart Gulliver calling for the bank to stop profiting from the disappearing rainforests of Borneo. We can stop this.”

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  It’s entirely conceivable that life’s splendor surrounds us all, and always in its complete fullness, accessible but veiled, beneath the surface, invisible, far away. But there it lies—not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If we call it by the right word, by the right name, then it comes. This is the essence of magic, which doesn’t create but calls.

  — Kafka, Tagebucher (via kateoplis)

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  quickwitter:

  bookishboi:

  dreamcatcher85:

  PLEASE REBOLG THIS! We need this film to happen. Please, watch and spread the word. My daughter and her father’s family are from this reservation. People need to know what really happens on native land. 

  Whoa. EVERYONE needs to watch this.

  Just click the play button, if you have 2 minutes and 33 seconds.

  It wont be wasted.

  They only need $8,000 to finish the film. We can do this…and get this story about life on a reservation told. Please get the word out. Thanks!

  (via goodmemory)

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  Ze log: Mapping How Cities Smell, Block By Block

  lelapin:

  See on Scoop.it - Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT
  
  

  Sight is just the most obvious way to navigate a city. Your nose is also constantly being stimulated. What do you know about your city’s “smellscape”? We map most aspects of cities these days, but some senses are better…

• 2013-05-29

  

  entregulistanybostan:

  Bertrand Russell by Ida Kar © National Portrait Gallery, London.

  Obras para descarga en Ignoria

  El ABC de la relatividad - Autobiografía - El panorama de la ciencia - Elogio de la ociosidad - Ensayos filosóficos - La conquista de la felicidad - Los problemas de la filosofía - Pesadillas de hombres eminentes - Por qué no soy cristiano - Retratos de memoria y otros ensayos - Satán en los suburbios
  
  De nombre Bertrand Arthur William Russell, nació en una familia aristocrática, y recibió educación mediante tutores en su domicilio. Más tarde estudió Matemáticas en el Trinity College de la Universidad de Cambridge, continuando con los estudios de Filosofía. Marchó a Alemania y allí estudió Economía, y a su vuelta fue profesor de la London School of Economics y posteriormente en la Universidad de Cambridge. En 1916, perdió su puesto en esta universidad y fue encarcelado por sus posiciones pacifistas respecto a la Primera Guerra Mundial, posiciones que mantendría a lo largo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y otros conflictos bélicos posteriores. Entre 1940 y 1950, intervino en emisiones de la BBC sobre temas de actualidad y filosóficos. En 1949 fue nombrado miembro de la Orden del Mérito y en 1950 se le concedió el Premio Nobel de Literatura.
  
  Read more: http://bibliotecaignoria.blogspot.com/2013/05/descarga-bertrand-russell-obras.html#ixzz2UiDPafYO

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  loverofbeauty:

  Jacques Henri Lartigue    Originally posted by mizaralkora

  (via goodmemory)

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  vintageanchorbooks:

  “I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve — because art takes us and makes us take a journey beyond price, beyond cost, into bearing witness to the world as it is and as it should be. Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.”
  —Toni Morrison (at the 2013 Vanderbilt University graduation)
  
  More here.

  (via bremertonrarebks)

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  heythereuniverse:

  Cross section of Pinus stem | Aaron Messing

  West Orange, New Jersey, USA

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  3wings:

  David Seidner

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  Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a meaning, hidden from day to day, but accessible in moments of greatest attentiveness, in those moments when consciousness loves the world.

  — 

  Adam Zagajewski, courtesy of Whiskey River

  (via crashinglybeautiful)

  (via theantidote)

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  roscoff-quotidien:

  Un visage en dit plus que des chiffres : 1.000.000 ou 2 .000.000
  Cette petite fille, celle-là et pas une autre a perdu la vie en 1942

  Ne jamais oublier
  Let us never forget

  Beautiful little Francine Beirach, age 4, with her teddy bear taken in 1942. Francine was deported to Auschwitz with the rest of her family where she lost her life. Let us never forget. [ Original: Francine Beirach ]

  ancientfaces:

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  regardintemporel:

  Olga Bleyova - Etude de Nu, 1965