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1904 St. Louis Worlds Fair
Worlds' Fairs prompted the theme parks we enjoy today Jessie Tarbox Beals / Missouri Historical Society Alan Taylor Sep 9, 2019 42 Photos In Focus www.theatlantic.com
Night on the town
Night on the townhouses overlooking a golf course in Seminole Florida on Friday the 13th. If you're still around in thirty years you'll see this same moon on this same date. Photo self
Life in Henry Ford's time
A repost of early 20th-century life in America. Henry Ford documented everything that moved with the new motion picture camera. Mechanization was just beginning to be a part of everyday life. Source US National Archives
The beauty of intelligence
Could it be a fractal, an expensive work of art or something found in the back of a refrigerator? None of these. Slime molds are able to select direction, maintain themselves by rejecting what is not beneficial and reshape themselves. They behave as though they have intelligence . Article source Quanta Magazine
Depression - a vague explanatiuon
Depression is something you live with, not by choice, an uninvited guest who visits unannounced and makes you wish you were dead! Be it chemical, or social, self imposed or impossible to ignore, it lingers on with no permanent cure. Suicide is not a cure it is a way out with a high price. Think of going to a theater and watching a performance you think a waste of your time. You leave before it is finished. Have you not missed anything? Was it worth staying for? I watched The Last Picture Show when it appeared in theaters in 1971. I was so disillusioned with the movie I left, then came back, and I was glad I returned. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards. I was looking at a slice of life I felt uncomfortable with. Real life, the one you live everyday, is no different. If you leave before the end you might miss something terrific.
