Facing the Past [In] The language of the Aymara, who live in the Andes highlands of Bolivia, Peru and Chile, . . "Until now, all the studied cultures and languages of the world – from European and Polynesian to Chinese, Japanese, Bantu and so on – have not only characterized time with properties of space, but also have all mapped the future as if it were in front of ego and the past in back. The Aymara case is the first documented to depart from the standard model," via, darnit more inside

These people give us pleasure. Children simply in delight! Some of the most amazing balloon creations I've ever seen.

Happy birthday, James Clerk Maxwell, who some believe rates with Einstein and Newton.

Float copper. Float. Copper. Giant chunks of....of....of copper. Just....out there. ... Gosh. more inside

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Deportation rocks an island community: People on a small Scottish island are protesting the UK Government's deportation of a young man of Thai-origin. more inside