Australian photographer Palani Mohan traveled to Mongolia for five years to capture the lives of the last eagle hunters, who tame young eagles, hunt with them for a number of years, then set them free. Some of these amazing black-and-white photos can be seen on his website, Palani Mohan: Hunting with Eagles. He also published a book with 90 of his photos. Read more at Mother Jones: You Have to See These Photos of Mongolian Men Hunting With Eagles.
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Category Archives: Around the World
Shadow on the Wall
Boston Globe: The Big Picture: Shadows and silhouettes.
“When light strips away the details, highlighting the environment and creating intriguing shapes and patterns, photographers create striking images of our world.”
Amazing photos!
Enough II
The New York Times: End the Gun Epidemic in America
“It is a moral outrage and national disgrace that civilians can legally purchase weapons designed to kill people with brutal speed and efficiency.”
By the way:
“This editorial published on A1 in the Dec. 5 edition of The New York Times. It is the first time an editorial has appeared on the front page since 1920.”
Also, from last night:
Whitehouse.gov: President Obama Addresses the Nation on Keeping the American People Safe. (transcript here).
Enough
I’ve been following the news about yet another and another mass shooting in the USA. For someone looking at the problem from the outside, it’s inconceivable how it is possible that the laws haven’t been changed ages ago to be a lot more restrictive. I’ve been following this discussion on MetaFilter after reading the Vox article:
“Enough:
America’s gun problem is completely unique: Why is it that for all the outrage and mourning with every mass shooting, nothing seems to change? To understand that, it’s important to grasp not just the stunning statistics about gun ownership and gun violence in the United States, but America’s very unique relationship with guns — unlike that of any other developed country — and how it plays out in our politics to ensure, seemingly against all odds, that our culture and laws continue to drive the routine gun violence that marks American life.“
To me it seems like a non-brainer to follow Australia’s idea of banning certain types of firearms and registering the rest. Statistics show that it worked!
Around the world in (less than) 80 days
Intelligent Life (The Economist): Cartophilia: Time travel in 1914. “An isochronic map shows where to go, how long it took to get there – and what changes were on the way.” By Simon Willis.
The New Scientist has a collection of world maps about different modes of transportation (roads, trains, ships, waterways): Where’s the remotest place on Earth?
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