Calvin and Hobbes for Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Seceda mountain in Italy via /r/Damnthatsinteresting
Aerial shot – Malletts Bay via /r/burlington
[OC] Average Annual Rainfall in inches by US County via /r/dataisbeautiful
Liked on YouTube: Official Young Vic’s A Streetcar Named Desire w/ Gillian Anderson | Free National Theatre Live Play
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/watch?v=BJEpYaD3yTw
Watch the Young Vic’s hit ★★★★★ production of Tennessee Williams’ timeless masterpiece, A Streetcar Named Desire, with Gillian Anderson, Vanessa Kirby and Ben Foster.
As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski.
A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Benedict Andrews, was filmed live on stage at London’s Young Vic theatre by National Theatre Live in 2014. It’s streaming for free from 7pm UK time on Thursday 21 May. Available until 7pm UK time on Thursday 28 May 2020.
The running time is 2 hours 55 minutes with a very short interval, and it is subtitled.
BBFC rating 15 when released in cinema. Contains scenes featuring sexual violence and domestic abuse.
Gillian Anderson (The X-Files, The Fall, Sex Education) plays Blanche DuBois, with Ben Foster (Lone Survivor, Kill Your Darlings) as Stanley and Vanessa Kirby (The Crown, Mission Impossible 7) as Stella.
The full list of cast and creatives is available here: https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/sites/default/files/national-theatre-at-home-a-streetcar-named-desire-cast-list.pdf
A Young Vic and Joshua Andrews co-production.
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A Young Vic and Joshua Andrews co-production, filmed live on-stage in 2014 by National Theatre Live.
Bill Gates’ Pandemic Summer Reading List
As he does every year, Bill Gates has shared his reading list for this summer. This time around, he’s included more than his usual five picks and many of the recommendations have a connection to the ongoing pandemic.
Of The Choice by Edith Eva Eger, he says:
This book is partly a memoir and partly a guide to processing trauma. Eger was only sixteen years old when she and her family got sent to Auschwitz. After surviving unbelievable horrors, she moved to the United States and became a therapist. Her unique background gives her amazing insight, and I think many people will find comfort right now from her suggestions on how to handle difficult situations.
He also recommends The Great Influenza by John Barry, Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, and The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness by Andy Puddicombe.
For years, I was a skeptic about meditation. Now I do it as often as I can — three times a week, if time allows. Andy’s book and the app he created, Headspace, are what made me a convert. Andy, a former Buddhist monk, offers lots of helpful metaphors to explain potentially tricky concepts in meditation. At a time when we all could use a few minutes to de-stress and re-focus each day, this is a great place to start.
Gates also recommended some TV shows and movies — Netflix’s Pandemic but also Ozark. He read Cloud Atlas recently — I wonder if he’s seen the movie by the Wachowskis (which is underrated IMO)?
Tags: Bill Gates  books  lists  video
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Not a bad view to wake up to. Major Misty Mountains vibes. Living with the in laws during lockdown can have some perks! via /r/CasualUK
Lovely morning in Huddersfield today. via /r/yorkshire
Fresh Tiger Stripes on Saturns Enceladus
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
2020 April 27
Fresh Tiger Stripes on Saturn’s Enceladus
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, JPL, SSI, Cassini Imaging Team Explanation: How will humanity first learn of extraterrestrial life? One possibility is to find it under the icy surface of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. A reason to think that life may exist there are long features — dubbed tiger stripes — that are known to be spewing ice from the moon’s icy interior into space. These surface cracks create clouds of fine ice particles over the moon’s South Pole and create Saturn‘s mysterious E-ring. Evidence for this has come from the robot Cassini spacecraft that orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017. Pictured here, a high resolution image of Enceladus is shown from a close flyby. The unusual surface tiger stripes are shown in false-color blue. Why Enceladus is active remains a mystery, as the neighboring moon Mimas, approximately the same size, appears quite dead. A recent analysis of ejected ice grains has yielded evidence that complex organic molecules exist inside Enceladus. These large carbon-rich molecules bolster — but do not prove — that oceans under Enceladus’ surface could contain life. Another Solar System moon that might contain underground life is Europa.
Experts Debate: How will humanity first discover ET life?
Tomorrow’s picture: an almost solar system
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