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Mother and Daughter (Azah Aziz & Zetti Aziz) by Soraya Yusof Talismail
Circa 1999/2000

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poptechlabs:

Mongolia bids to keep city cool with ‘ice shield’ experiment. Geoengineering trial aims to ‘store’ winter temperatures in a giant block of ice that will cool and water Ulan Bator in summer.

The project aims to artificially create “naleds” - ultra-thick slabs of ice that occur naturally in far northern climes when rivers or springs push through cracks in the surface to seep outwards during the day and then add an extra layer of ice during the night. Unlike regular ice formation on lakes - which only gets to a metre in thickness before it insulates the water below - naleds continue expanding for as long as there is enough water pressure to penetrate the surface. Many are more than seven metres thick, which means they melt much later than regular ice.

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southeastern-belle:

“Gamelan is able to express every shade of meaning, even unmentionable shades.”

-Claude Debussy, 1895

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jorrty:

Yumbulhakang, Tibet’s First King’s Castle (by lylevincent)

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helizabeta:

What are we Asians to Americans?

Two skyscrapers & stuff?

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farhaaan:

AP — Protesters demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh pray on an empty billboard space in Sana‘a.

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Should We Look at Corrosive Images? by Rick Poynor

So the violent image confronts us with a dilemma. We need to see it (because it is right to be informed), we want to see it (because we demand to see everything), and seeing it is easier than ever before (because technology makes it so). But none of this tells us anything about what effects these images have on us.

We look because we can, but after a while what happens to us?

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life:

A self-described “visual anthropologist” and social explorer, 27-year-old photographer Umair Jangda has created a remarkable series of images based on a simple, sneakily powerful concept: namely, that photographing Muslims of different ages and backgrounds dressed in both contemporary clothes and in traditional Islamic attire might well be one way to alter the perception of Islam in the West.

“After a bit of a false start with this project,” Jangda told LIFE.com, “I realized that, ironically, I needed to show the stereotype [of how Muslims appear to Western eyes] in order to to battle that stereotype.

LIFE.com presents a selection of images from Jangda’s work-in-progress: The Muslim Behind Islam.

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