bsrhng (25)in #northkorea • 7 years agoA children's ride with a rocket theme in Pyongyang.Saw this picture of a children's ride with a rocket theme in an article at the NY Times. The foreign ministry official interviewed holds a very hard line against the US even…bsrhng (25)in #books • 7 years agoReview of 'The Scientific Revolution: A Very Short Introduction'An eye-opening book, it tracks the emergence of modern science in the 16th and 17th centuries from a system of thinking that extended Christian, Greek and Roman thought. What I…bsrhng (25)in #walking • 7 years agoMedieval body mechanicsA very interesting video explaining how and why people used to walk differently. Essentially, it is explained, now we walk heel-first because it is easier and safer to do so.…bsrhng (25)in #life • 7 years agoA great read from the Smithsonian: For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War IIIn 1978, Soviet geologists prospecting in the wilds of Siberia discovered a family of six, lost in the taiga. The Lykovs lived in this hand-built log cabin, lit by a single…bsrhng (25)in #photography • 7 years agoAccidental refraction