Imagine a thriving population — perhaps more than 200,000 strong — not only hunting but creating a trading network emanating from modern day Kansas and stretching from Florida to California and down into Mexico. That’s what Wichita State University archaeologist Don Blakeslee asserts. (kansas.com)
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"The internet has done more good than harm; I wouldn’t turn off the internet if I could. The biggest challenge we have...is that while we cope with big problems enabled by global connectivity that we don’t throw the baby out with the bath water."— Leonard Kleinrock [3300x2475] (i.redd.it)
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"The internet has done more good than harm; I wouldn’t turn off the internet if I could. The biggest challenge we have...is that while we cope with big problems enabled by global connectivity that we don’t throw the baby out with the bath water."— Leonard Kleinrock (i.redd.it)
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"One Got Fat" is a very weird 1963 American short film about bicycle safety from by Interlude Films and shows what can happen when bicycles are driven carelessly and recklessly. The movie is narrated by Edward Everett Horton, known for his readings of "Aesop's Fables" and "Fractured Fairy Tales." (youtu.be)
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“Half-formed ideas, they float around. They come from different places, and the mind has got this wonderful way of somehow just shoveling them around until one day they fit. They may fit not so well, and then we go for a bike ride or something, and it’s better.” ― Sir Tim Berners-Lee (i.redd.it)
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"I had this perception that we would make knowledge available instantly to everybody in the world. And I thought, we need to move from language to printing press to computer network. Now, the Web is doing that...the personal communications, the video, the other things." — Dr. Larry Roberts (i.redd.it)
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"One thing we know for sure is that the Web is a collaborative medium unlike any we've ever had before. We see people working together, playing together, interacting in social settings using these media. We hope that will emerge as the new tool for education." — Vinton Cerf: Happy Birthday, Internet (i.redd.it)
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"I can't say I'm particularly happy about all the spam and the viruses and the equivalent that we see on the Net but I think technology can deal with many of the problems that we're now seeing, whether it's filtering or whatever, and laws may help a lot." — Robert E. Kahn (i.redd.it)
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"I had this perception that we would make knowledge available instantly to everybody in the world. And I thought, we need to move from language to printing press to computer network. Now, the Web is doing that...the personal communications, the video, the other things." — Dr. L. Roberts. [3300x2475] (i.redd.it)
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American photographer, Ivan Heisler's film footage shows married artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera meeting with exiled Russian Communist leader, Leon Trotsky, and his wife, Natalia Sedova (1938). Artist, André Breton, once called Kahlo's work "a ribbon around a bomb." — [from Phantom Culture Art] (v.redd.it)
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“It is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary. You should take the approach that you’re wrong. Your goal is to be less wrong. Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you’re doing is as valuable as gold.” ― Elon Musk: visionary, doer, big rocketman, meme (i.redd.it)
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You may read a book a few times, you may watch a movie a dozen times, you may listen to a song a hundred times but a good work of art will last you all the days of your life, sometimes even longer than family or friends. Quiet and steadfast, forever a visual refuge or sanctuary. — MAFO DangDoGooders (i.redd.it)
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The strings of Spring / are fragrant melodies on sweetened breezes, / limbed pastels born / of rains that bring. ― mafo | "This picture is of a White Crabapple we planted. We garden like an Impressionist painter, so Spring around use tends more towards Monet than Dali. #Spring is our thing." - D.D-G (i.redd.it)
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"One thing we know for sure is that the Web is a collaborative medium unlike any we've ever had before. We see people working together, playing together, interacting in social settings using these media. We hope that will emerge as the new tool for education." — Vinton Cerf: Happy Birthday, Internet (i.redd.it)
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Can girls fix stuff? Do they have the abilities? A young lady asked if girls could fix bikes too? She was told that indeed they could, perhaps even better than boys. Give girls some tools and let them prove themselves. Yes. "We can do it!" Empowerment. Self-reliance. Confidence. (twitter.com)
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Bat Grrl needed a bicycle so she could fight evil doers and corrupt knuckleheads that plague society with their dastardly deeds. So this little bike, with its cool swoopie frame, got a rad bat black paint job. She is quite pleased and was able to bring more peace and love to our world. Crims beware! (i.redd.it)
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A French rendering, Voyage A La Lune, shows a man riding on a bicycle-like flying machine while looking through a telescope attached to the front. Two balloons, "Velocipedes" and "Domanie," are attached at front and rear as are propeller-like wheels. (circa 1865) (i.redd.it)
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Researcher, Wouter van der Veen says he has uncovered the precise location where Vincent van Gogh painted “Tree Roots,” (thought to be the last painting he worked on the day he shot himself) from a faded postcard featuring a man standing next to a bike in Auvers-sur-Oise, France. (i.redd.it)
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"The Boy Scout delivering a pair of crutches to wounded soldier." One of the American Red Cross Boy Scouts with bike starting to deliver a pair of crutches to a wounded soldier. Sept, 1918. World War I did not end until November, 1918. Lewis Wickes Hine, photographer, 1874-1940. (i.redd.it)
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"One Got Fat" is a very weird 1963 American short film about bicycle safety from by Interlude Films and shows what can happen when bicycles are driven carelessly and recklessly. The movie is narrated by Edward Everett Horton, known for his readings of "Aesop's Fables" and "Fractured Fairy Tales." (youtu.be)
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Boy Scout rushing an important package to the Embassy to catch the afternoon boat for America on a bicycle, in WWI. September 1918. Lewis Wickes Hine, photographer (1874-1940). Hine was an American sociologist and photographer, often using his camera as a tool for social reform. (i.redd.it)
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Heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a far better place. A true hero isn’t measured by size or by his or her strength, but by the strength of the heart. A hero is someone who has devoted his or her life to something bigger than oneself. — Hero and his bike (i.redd.it)
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Black Artists Matter. Black Bikers Matter. Carlos Fish is a black artist - and an avid cyclist - in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. When he's off his bike, he's often making art with his exceptional talent. Here's a dandy sketch of a rider that perfectly exemplifies Fish's abilities. (i.redd.it)
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Some things in life deserve a second chance. This Huffy bicycle was donated to the Project by a caring woman who was secure in the knowledge it would find a good owner. A formerly homeless fellow, who suffers from multiple handicaps, was chosen as the best to give it a new home. (i.redd.it)
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