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I’m a lonely, little mangabey
Without a tree
At London ZOO
…waiting for YOU
In 2023
When I visited my arm was in a sling so Nell seemed to imitate my arm. .
.....well, not quite but there was a time (in the distant past) when books and maps etc. were the best source of information.
*Working Towards a Better World
The Economist - Bussiness Insider
The most important divide in America today is growing
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USA Today - Divided we still stand – and getting used to it
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Pew Research Center, BBC News
7 things to know about polarization in America
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Working across the political divide in the USA - Chris Corrigan
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Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo💜💜
A partly-political premonition photo piece taken on Gothic stairway beneath Scotland’s loomingly terrifying national edifice. Fantastic fringe festival light from hugely unpredictable weather.
Inspiring the media. The image on the cover of The Economist magazine looks like it was inspired by the Vik Church in Iceland. I (among countless others) would like to take credit 😂😂
Virgin Trains Class 90s 90009 'The Economist' and 90008 both with Intercity Livery at Stockport with a service from Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston on the 17th November 1998. (Only 90009 taking power)
#Repost @theeconomist: Performers on water-powered jetboards in Yixing, Jiangsu province, China on October 17th 2016. Credit: Reuters #instagram
Brussels, Belgium, 28 November 2017. The Economist - Digital Openness in Europe.
Photography: Babylonia - Daniel Osorio
#repost from @theeconomist: Network maps, like this one showing social media activity around the anti-vaccination movement in California, are becoming ever more popular. Maps like these seek to identify communities of interest within social networks, finding the most influential members and tracking what they are talking about. This data is then visualised to display topics and even sentiment. To find out more about how access to data is transforming politics in different ways, read our Special Report from this week's issue via our website #TheEconomist #BigData
Brussels, Belgium, 28 November 2017. The Economist - Digital Openness in Europe.
Photography: Babylonia - Daniel Osorio
Brussels, Belgium, 28 November 2017. The Economist - Digital Openness in Europe.
Photography: Babylonia - Daniel Osorio
Intercity liveried 90009 stands at Stockport at the rear of a Manchester to Euston express.
© Sean Lancastle, all rights reserved
Qualcuno a modo proprio, con un pensiero ancora incerto. Qualcuno con un sorriso e la matita stranamente ferma. Qualcuno fino all'ultimo chiuso a ragionare e qualcuno ancora a dirsi che tanto non cambia niente. Qualcuno con un'idea amareggiata da come altrove altritempi altrinoi. Qualcuno magari è la prima volta. Qualcuno invece: questa è l'ultima. Qualcuno da solo, qualcuno con gli amici, qualcuno lontano da casa, qualcuno rimasto ancora.
Domenica e lunedi', come volete voi. E poi, basta.
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Brussels, Belgium, 28 November 2017. The Economist - Digital Openness in Europe.
Photography: Babylonia - Daniel Osorio
Brussels, Belgium, 28 November 2017. The Economist - Digital Openness in Europe.
Photography: Babylonia - Daniel Osorio
Brussels, Belgium, 28 November 2017. The Economist - Digital Openness in Europe.
Photography: Babylonia - Daniel Osorio
The Economist, October 1st-7th 2016 issue.
Elon Musk, and others, say humanity should spread to other planets. During his lifetime he hopes to be able to move to Mars.
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Elon Musk (age 45) is the South African-born Canadian-American founder, of SpaceX and co-founder of Tesla Motors.
As of June 2016, he was the 83rd wealthiest person in the world.
Musk's goals include reducing global warming through sustainable energy production and consumption, and reducing the "risk of human extinction" by setting up a human colony on Mars.
-- Wikipedia
I love looking at other people's stuff in this group so much that I really thought I should do my own too
Brussels, Belgium, 28 November 2017. The Economist - Digital Openness in Europe.
Photography: Babylonia - Daniel Osorio
Brussels, Belgium, 28 November 2017. The Economist - Digital Openness in Europe.
Photography: Babylonia - Daniel Osorio
Self portrait (double exposure) made on a Kodak 35mm negative.
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Thoughts - comments - critiques - always welcome
Brussels, Belgium, 28 November 2017. The Economist - Digital Openness in Europe.
Photography: Babylonia - Daniel Osorio
Reading the current Economist, I found this wonderfully evocative passage, drawing me in:
“OBSERVED at a distance, traditional societies hold a great fascination for people who are raised in the secure world of middle-class modernity. There is a keen appetite for memoirs and works of popular anthropology that offer some sense of what it is like to grow up in a setting where loyalty to the extended family, the faith, the tribe is unquestioned; and where people’s self-worth depends on acting out rituals and roles inherited from distant ancestors. When set against the atomised solitude of some forms of contemporary Western existence, life as an Ottoman imam, a tsarist peasant or an African warrior can appear romantic—even, somehow, whole and well-integrated where modern life is all too often fragmented and prolix.
For anyone who has ever felt a tinge of rose-tinted nostalgia for the traditional, Ayaan Hirsi Ali provides a bracing, and on the whole healthy, cold shower. Having experienced traditional society from the inside—in the form of a Muslim Somali family headed by a well-known politician who practised polygamy and left a deeply troubled and dysfunctional progeny—she has no time for sentimentality. As the world’s most famous ex-Muslim (who became a politician in the Netherlands, then a public intellectual in America), she tells people who have grown up in countries shaped by the Enlightenment and the scientific revolution that they don’t know how lucky they are.
Her African upbringing, as she recounts the story, was dark, fearful, full of tedious labour, meaningless rituals and irrational cruelty of which female circumcision was only the most egregious example. People succumbed to terrible diseases because they did not know the elementary facts about hygiene and health. An obsessive concern with the hereafter sapped their will to take practical steps that could have made their lives more bearable.”
— book review of her new book, Nomad
I had a chance to talk with her in the quiet shade of the trees of Aspen….
Regarding 9/11 as a trigger for her fracture of faith: “when I told my mom that there were Muslims in the World Trade towers, she replied ‘if they were in the towers, they were not Muslims.”
In response to a question from Deborah Scranton, the director of The War Tapes who was sitting with us: “For anyone who has spent time in the Muslim world, it is obvious that they believe they are in a holy war with the West.”
Brussels, Belgium, 28 November 2017. The Economist - Digital Openness in Europe.
Photography: Babylonia - Daniel Osorio
#repost from @theeconomist: A view of a tulip field in Zhumadian, Henan province, China on March 31st 2016. Credit: Reuters #tulips #spring #flowers #Zhumadian #China