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Last Weekend, Half of Germany Was Running on Solar Power:

That’s right—half of all of Germany was powered by electricity generated by solar plants. That’s incredible. It was also world record-breaking. Germany is pretty much singlehandedly proving that solar can be a major, reliable source of power—even in countries that aren’t all that sunny.

A thimbleful of red

is redder than a bucketful

* Henri Matisse

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Garnier Opera, Paris. Photography by David Leventi

(via rosebiar)

“Behold an elitist”: wonderful interview with Robertson Davies in The Paris Review.

‘With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.’

* Professor Steven Weinberg

Fashion victim, Hong Kong, 2005

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

* William James

A map reveals how much of London actually lurks below the surface.