1936 Nazi Color Film-Berlin in the Year of the Olympic Games
Nazi propaganda complete color film from 1936
‘Fakeproof’ e-passport is cloned in minutes
New microchipped passports designed to be foolproof against identity theft can be cloned and manipulated in minutes and accepted as genuine by the computer software recommended for use at international airports.
- The Times of London
Surprise, surprise.
Frida Kahlo Exhibition at SF MOMA
This exhibition, commemorating the centennial of the artist’s birth, brings together paintings that span her career, along with a selection of her own collection of photographs, most of which have never been on public display
Thanks to Emer Martin for the tip.
The SEVENTYMILLION Project is a social project to find, map and explore
Irishness and Irish heritage worldwide. There are 70 million people around
the world with Irish heritage or an Irish link and we are trying to find
where they are and also out what that link means to them.
Hospital Food Goes Green: Pleasing Patients and Helping Them Heal
Ronald M. Davis, M.D., president of the American Medical Association, in an article for the AMA’s April newsletter, called on hospitals to “buy meat and poultry raised without nontherapeutic antibiotics, use milk produced without recombinant bovine growth hormones, and replace unhealthy snacks found in many vending machines with healthy choices.”
As someone who spent a long time in hospital, I can vouch for the lack of nourishment in Irish hospital food - unless it has improved dramatically, which I doubt. It seems obvious that you can’t heal properly without proper nutrition, but unless your family and friends feed you, forget it.
Ole, Ole Ole, for Irish world champ robots
This from The Irish Independent on July 22. A while back but still worth linking, I think.
Muhammad Yunus, the founder of the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh and winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize
This man’s a wonder. I’d heard of him but hat-tip to my cousin Éamonn for alerting me to a video on him.
17 Reasons (or More) to Stop Charging People to Ride the Bus The case for Fare-Free Transit.
I’ve been banging on about this for years, especially over at my alternative party site, so it’s nice to see I’m not alone. It works, so why not put it to work.
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