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The Magnus Effect - When a small amount of spin is added to a dropped object, the object moves forward

This person,  Gérard Philipe, is my favorite actor and was by all accounts a good and beloved man. I’ve seen a few of his films but had given up on finding the rest, in the US anyway. Today I searched his name on YouTube out of semi-idle curiosity, and found that people have been uploading his films!! There are four of his films on YouTube that I couldn’t find anywhere for years!!!! I am happy. And the man’s screen presence is amazing, you all would benefit from seeing him.

Juliette, ou la clef des songes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5oXmgNhSng

Pot Bouille:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPxFf38-Y3s

Monsieur Ripois:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQEwC2N7GRc

Also, if you understand French (of course the films are more enjoyable but also) he has several recordings of plays and books that are much easier to access from the US than his films, and his voice and expression are exquisite. Among them ‘Ruy Blas,’ (he plays Ruy Blas) ‘Le Cid,’ (he plays Rodrigo), and ‘Le Petit prince,’ (he is the pilot/narrator). Beautiful work.

Gérard Philipe dans “Le Cid” de Corneille, 1951. Photo : Thérèse Le Prat

The truth is out there, Philipp Igumnov

The Places of Welcome to Night Vale

Masterpost

Individual posts 

Night Vale

The Dark Planet

The Desert Otherworld

The Underground City

Desert Bluffs

Nulogorsk

Europe (Memory of)

good night!

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Barbara Tuchman says the widespread apparently juvenile behavior of medieval Europe should be considered in light of the fact that most of active society was in fact people in their teens and twenties

Which on the one hand is like one of those things that’s obvious once it’s pointed out

But also its funny to think there was a whole historians’ tradition of being like “why were medieval kings so overemotional” until Tuchman clears her throat and goes… “Ahem… Have you ever met an eighteen year old boy” and then everyone’s like “oooooh”

Mexico’s largest mural brightens up town | See full gallery

In Pachuca, Mexico, hundreds of houses serve as the canvas for what has been called the country’s largest mural. Each colorfully painted house plays a part in the mosaic – serving the project’s goal of bringing the community together.

Your eyes wander up, and above you see the dark planet of awesome size perched, in it’s sunless void. An invisible titan all thick black forests and jagged mountains and deep, turbulent oceans.

A monster. Spinning, soundless, forgotten. It’s so close now. You see it just above you. Maybe, even, if you tried very hard, you could.. touch it. You reach up-