Libuse Safránková, Lenka Kolegarova, Libuse Geprtová, Magda Vásáryová

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Scientists break down plastic using a simple, inexpensive catalyst and air

Harnessing moisture from air, Northwestern University chemists have developed a simple new method for breaking down plastic waste.

The non-toxic, environmentally friendly, solvent-free process first uses an inexpensive catalyst to break apart the bonds in polyethylene terephthalate (PET), the most common plastic in the polyester family. Then, the researchers merely expose the broken pieces to ambient air. Leveraging the trace amounts of moisture in air, the broken-down PET is converted into monomers—the crucial building blocks for plastics. From there, the researchers envision the monomers could be recycled into new PET products or other, more valuable materials. Safer, cleaner, cheaper and more sustainable than current plastic recycling methods, the new technique offers a promising path toward creating a circular economy for plastics. The study was recently published in Green Chemistry.

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Romani girls dancing in Skopje, Macedonia.

Y'all ever just suddenly have the overwhelming urge to swim??? Like not actively but you just wanna,,, be in the water and have some Peace

great films available on the internet archive part two

first post + the archive collection with all of them

la haine (1995) dir. mathieu kassovitz

carnival of souls (1962) dir. herk harvey

andrei tarkovsky's filmography

a nightmare on elm st. (1984) dir wes craven

possession (1981) dir. andrzej źuławski

the silence of the lambs (1991) dir. jonathan demme

safe (1995) dir. todd haynes

psycho (1960) dir. alfred hitchcock

cops (1922) dir. buster keaton

sherlock jr (1924) dir. buster keaton

when harry met sally... (1989) dir. rob rainer

the bride of frankenstein (1935) dir. james whale

man with a movie camera (1927) dir. dziga vertov

coffee and cigarettes (2003) dir. jim jarmusch

m (1931) dir. fritz lang

it happened one night (1934) dir. frank capra

casablanca (1942) dir. michael curtiz

purple noon (1960) dir. rene clement

carrie (1976) dir. brian de palma

eraserhead (1977) dir. david lynch

they live (1988) dir. john carpenter

female trouble (1974) dir. john waters

do the right thing (1989) dir. spike lee

wings (1927) dir. william a wellman

fallen angels (1995) dir. wong kar wai

velvet goldmine (1998) dir. todd haynes

black panthers (1968) dir. agnes varda

american psycho (2000) dir. mary harron

the manchurian candidate (1962) dir. john frankenheimer

girlfriends (1978) dir. claudia weill

more to come ♡ glad you all like movies.

“When Dante Gabriel Rossetti read the novel Wuthering Heights, he wrote to a friend: “The action takes place in Hell, but the places, I don’t know why, have English names.””

— Jorge Luis Borges, “Julio Cortazar, Stories” from Prologues to a Personal Library.

Ariaal people, Kenya, by Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher

Inuit Woman (Kootucktuck) in her Beaded Attigi. Nunavut, 1905.

ok so the first calendars were lunar calendars, 28 days, and a woman's menstrual cycles are 28 days. The implications of this are staggering, like isn't it conceivable that women were the first to recognize and implement time as a concept as a matter of survival just based on having to plan for one's period every month? and her observation that the moon's phases roughly correlates to her period could be one of the earliest breakthroughs of abstract thinking. what if she believed the moon controlled her cycle? First deity, first worship. Why would prehistoric men need to conceptualize time in the sophisticated way women clearly did? Men did not need to plan for periods, pregnancy, or raising children into adulthood. They had no reason not to scamper around the wilderness pissing on trees and ejaculating into the nearest holes they can find for the rest of time because they never had to plan long-term for monthly uncontrollable bleeding and keeping infants alive for years. Why would men look at the moon's phases and see anything other than the moon's phases? He cannot biologically realize how the moon is intrinsically connected to him, how he and time are intertwined, how one is all.

We are the timekeepers. This blood built society.

Jewellery & weaponry belonging to Queen Ahhotep II. An inscribed ceremonial axe blade made of copper, gold, electrum and wood was decorated with a Minoan style griffin. Three golden flies were included and were awards usually given to people who served and acquitted themselves well in the army. A couple of items bore the name of Kamose, but more were inscribed with the name of Ahmose I.