Imagine every politician would have such a way of putting things: respectful, data-driven, and passionate.

“Nicht Kafka, niemals Kafka. Der hat’s nicht gerafft. Das Leben ist nicht so wie er sagt.”

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You might have seen Robin Thicke’s video of the song “Blurred Lines” which got lots of PR because … women are naked in it. It’s terrible.

Now, a group of feminist law students from Auckland University posted a parody of it on Youtube – in which men are wearing underpants. Nonetheless it was deleted because the video violated its terms and conditions by displaying sexually explicit content (?!).

There were protests, and the video is up again. And it’s amazing.

(Source: samuel-warde.com)

Link of the day: a collection of 40 lovely and hilarious maps.

This is how the male pufferfish attracts female mates:

Source: “Role of Huge Geometric Circular Structures in the Reproduction of a Marine Pufferfish” by Hiroshi Kawase, Yoji Okata, & Kimiaki Ito (2013).

Neulich, im Büro …

… not.

Oliver Sacks, a brilliant neurologist and writer, published a little text in the NYT about turning 80. Inspiring and a great read!

… At nearly 80, with a scattering of medical and surgical problems, none disabling, I feel glad to be alive — “I’m glad I’m not dead!” sometimes bursts out of me when the weather is perfect. (This is in contrast to a story I heard from a friend who, walking with Samuel Beckett in Paris on a perfect spring morning, said to him, “Doesn’t a day like this make you glad to be alive?” to which Beckett answered, “I wouldn’t go as far as that.”) I am grateful that I have experienced many things — some wonderful, some horrible — and that I have been able to write a dozen books, to receive innumerable letters from friends, colleagues and readers, and to enjoy what Nathaniel Hawthorne called “an intercourse with the world.”

I am sorry I have wasted (and still waste) so much time; I am sorry to be as agonizingly shy at 80 as I was at 20; I am sorry that I speak no languages but my mother tongue and that I have not traveled or experienced other cultures as widely as I should have done …

Chris Godfrey, the VFX (visual effects) supervisor of the recently published movie “The Great Gatsby” posted a 5-minute “before and after” video on Vimeo. It’s fantastic what you can do today with CGI (computer generated imagery) …

(Also, the soundtrack of the movie is absolutely brilliant!)

IRONY (n.) – dropping your IPhone in Apple juice.

INTERNET (n.) – where grammar goes to die.

THERE (n.) – they same thing as “their” or “they’re”, especially if you’re an idiot.

LAUGHTER (n.) – when a smile has an orgasm.

Source: theberry.com