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this is the most sophisticated phishing e-mail I have ever received and if they had sized the logo correctly and actually proofread the fucking thing I probably would’ve clicked that button

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Black History Month!

2017 note: Hey, guys.  With Black History Month just around the corner, I wanted to repost this so that teachers have a chance to print the (FREE) poster before February so that it can be used as a classroom resource if anyone feels like it might be worthwhile to have on hand.  Let your teacher pals know! 2016 edit: a lot of teachers and librarians asked if there was a poster for this that they could buy.  Nope!  This post was made as an educational aid and teachers oughtn’t have to pay anything to get it in their classroom.  So here’s a link to download the poster’s print file to print it yourself: https://gumroad.com/l/Exvau I did include the series in my recent art book 555 Character Drawings, so if you want it in a book with a lot of other stuff, that’s available, too. http://crogan.bigcartel.com/product/555-character-drawings-preorders

My favorite parts of history (as might be obvious from my choice of subject matter when making books) are the ones that fall into easily-categorized genres, genres with associated visual iconographies. This is the sort of stuff I loved as a kid: pirates, knights, cowboys, explorers, romans and Egyptians and flying aces. Stuff you could find featured in a bag of toys or a generic costume. For Black History Month, I thought I might visit some of these adventure-leaning periods and pick a few historic black people from those eras to draw, just for fun. If you’re doing a project or report in school this month, you could do worse than to tackle one of these toughies.  Feel free to share some of these with youngsters that you know.  And call them youngsters, they LOVE that.

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23 photos of the massive pro-migrant rallies that have swept Europe

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of major European cities on Saturday to rally for their governments to accept more of the refugees fleeing wars in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan to continental Europe for safety. See more photos.

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Faberge Fractals by Tom Beddard

Former physicist turned artist, Tom Beddard, has created these incredible fractal models with his own software, Tom lives in Scotland.

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http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/sausage-addicted-kookaburra-too-fat-to-fly/story-e6frflri-1225872729208

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Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) Directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise from a screenplay by Tab Murphy and David Reynolds

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These are nine of the most prestigious universities in the world, in many cases the cream of their nation and better than most U.S. institutions. And when you compare their prices to the top U.S. schools, you’ll wonder why anyone goes to college in America in the first place.

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ascending by aurora.

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There’s also a really good podcast about this story by Radiolab which you can find here. There’s also some surprising things to learn from his story, especially in relation to how despite being exposed to two nuclear bombs, his descendants don’t have as great of an amount of issues relating to their health as you’d initially think. 

Meet the man who survived both Hiroshima and Nagasaki 

70 years ago today, 29-year-old Tsutomu Yamaguchi was visiting Hiroshima on business and had been walking to his office. In a 2010 interview with ABC News Australia, Yamaguchi spoke of the horror he felt that day. He described that it appeared as if the “sun had fallen.“ Yamaguchi was lucky, though he suffered severe burns, he was able to escape the city. But fate would strike twice.

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DIDNEY WORL

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some sushi

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swimmin’

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Last Night in Ferguson (8/10/15): In a word, chaos. Shots rang out sometime after 11. Police claim that they were gang-related. A plainclothes officer shot and critically injured 18-year old Tyrone Harris, a friend of Mike Brown’s. Knowing some of the organizers in Ferguson, the “gang truces” established last August have held fairly steady. The idea that they would have chosen last night of all night’s to fire up is difficult to believe. What followed was something out of last year’s police state playbook. Tear gas and rubber bullets were fired indiscriminately by the police at peaceful protester. Harris remains in critical condition, and while today was already intended as a day of civil disobedience, new protests are being planned. This is Ferguson, one year later. #staywoke #farfromover

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Canada sent a friendly robot to America. Americans destroyed it.

This is why we can’t have nice things.  On Saturday, vandals in Philadelphia destroyed a hitchhiking robot from Canada named HitchBot, two weeks into its U.S. trip. Designed as a social experiment, HitchBot could talk to humans and upload photos to social media. If you found it, HitchBot would tell you where it wanted to go and ask for a ride. Worry not though, HitchBot may get a happy ending.