— Daniel Quinn (Beyond Civilization: Humanity’s Next Great Adventure)
The season of festivals is here.
Interesting peek into facebook’s developer-driven culture.
claudinegossett: via 2.bp.blogspot.com
Sky burial was once a common funerary practice in Tibet wherein a human corpse is cut in specific locations and placed on a mountaintop, exposing it to the elements or the mahabhuta and animals – especially to birds of prey. The location of the sky burial preparation and place of execution are understood in the Vajrayana traditions as charnel grounds. In Tibet the practice is known as jhator, which literally means, “giving alms to the birds.”
Picture Story of my visit to Valishvaruni Konda 1.
Daily chart: the world’s richest people, adjusted for age. Mark Zuckerberg is already the 52nd richest person in the world—if Facebook’s recently...
(via Jenny Juurinen.)
A baby bonobo kisses its mother at Jacksonville Zoo in Florida. British plumber, Graham McGeorge spent three months documenting the female dominated...
