kateoplis:

Anouk Griffioen & Annemarieke van Drimmelen, Sophie

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 Lee Jeffries, Homeless

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barackobama:

Did we just make POTUS singing Al Green a ringtone? Yep, we just made POTUS singing Al Green a ringtone. Get it here for free.

Game changer.

kateoplis:

breakingnews:

Sixteen-year-old Laura Dekker from the Netherlands sailed into St. Maarten harbor today, completing her yearlong solo journey around the globe aboard a ketch named “Guppy.”  - AP

[Image: Laura Dekker poses on her sailboat in 2010. (Judy Fitzpatrick/AP)]

So impressive.

kateoplis:

Suzanne Moxhay

kateoplis:

Mark Power, The Sound of Two Songs

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Postcard from Madagascar: In Pursuit of the Plowshare Tortoise

This week’s issue features William Finnegan’s piece about a Manhattan night-life baron’s race to save the world’s rarest species of tortoise: the angonoka, or plowshare tortoise, which is coveted by collectors on the illegal market. We sent the South Africa-based photographer Jonathan Torgovnik to Madagascar, home of the last remaining habitat for these animals, to capture that night-life baron, Eric Goode, in the field with the tortoises he has committed himself to protect.

[Via: newyorker]

Beautiful.

chels:

washingtonpoststyle:

This is what you need at 4:30 p.m. on a gray Saturday.

I didn’t think I could love this song any more than I already do. But then the internet went and proved me wrong. Again.