Joplin Hurricane - A tall steel cross is refracted in raindrops on a window…the only part of the church left.
Chemical tracers showing upper level jet stream winds.
Wildfire in Colorado
Using a video game metaphor, John Scalzi explains straight white male privilege for those straight white males who get hung up on the word “privilege”.
Dudes. Imagine life here in the US — or indeed, pretty much anywhere in the Western world — is a massive role playing game, like World of Warcraft except appallingly mundane, where most quests involve the acquisition of money, cell phones and donuts, although not always at the same time. Let’s call it The Real World. You have installed The Real World on your computer and are about to start playing, but first you go to the settings tab to bind your keys, fiddle with your defaults, and choose the difficulty setting for the game. Got it?
Okay: In the role playing game known as The Real World, “Straight White Male” is the lowest difficulty setting there is.
You can lose playing on the lowest difficulty setting. The lowest difficulty setting is still the easiest setting to win on. The player who plays on the “Gay Minority Female” setting? Hardcore.
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Quenby Sheree
Nick Brandt - Wildebeest
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There was torture, starvation, betrayals and executions, but to Shin In Geun, Camp 14 – a prison for the political enemies of North Korea – was home. Then one day came the chance to flee…
His first memory is an execution. He walked with his mother to a wheat field, where guards had rounded up several thousand prisoners. The boy crawled between legs to the front row, where he saw guards tying a man to a wooden pole….
Read here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/16/escape-north-korea-prison-camp
Animal Portraits - Nine Francois
Nancy Fouts
This photo was taken in the Upper Antelope Canyon near Page and it shows the amazing effect of the sand thrown in the air and struck by the rays of the sun Angiolo Manetti
Geo Rittenmyer
Brian Ulrich