1930s:Dental Phantom
“Dental students worked on these for practice. The rivets protruding from the facial area would anchor a rubber face to make it more “human” to work on.”
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.” 1984 by George Orwell
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The Only Known Photograph of Einstein Deriving his Famous E=mc2 Equation
At a public lecture in Pittsburgh in 1934, four hundred lucky students were privy to a lecture by Albert Einstein, in which the great man mathematically derived his famous mass-energy equivalence equation: E=mc2. What you see above is a photo from that lecture, and what is thought to be the only surviving photo that shows Einstein working on that derivation.
The photo was pulled from a halftone newspaper clipping by David Topper and Dwight Vincent of the University of Winnipeg, who discovered it in 2007. Sadly, everything is a bit fuzzy so you can’t really make out the famed equation itself. And even though the original article had a crisp picture of Einstein posing next to one of his blackboards, he’s next to the wrong one.
Here’s a closer look at the man and the math. If you look closely, you’ll see the mass-energy equivalence in the lower left hand corner of the blackboard on the right:
Fortunately, Topper and Vincent managed to take the blurry photo and reproduce both blackboards in their original paper. Here’s the math behind the magic, the derivation of mass-energy equivalence as presented by Albert Einstein.
In case you’re wondering why the famous equation says Δ
Almost 700 hundred scans captured at the Hoboken Spring 2013 Kirby Museum ScanFest! Two days! Two Epson Expression 10000 XL scanners! Two scan-men! Many envelopes with Kirby photostats, photocopies, and whatever those fragile pink things are (see our Psycho-man post from yesterday)!
Here’s a photocopy of Kirby’s pencil art for the cover to Silver Star 5, published by Pacific Comics in 1984.
Bill Sienkiewicz is the Jimi Hendrix of Comics. He plays with feedback, distorts the notes, and blows your mind. He does it so, so casually too. Just like Jimi did.
Black Bolt by Jack Kirby (pencils) and Scott Williams (inks)
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I was feeling a little blue and I was looking for something on the internet to cheer me up and Warren Ellis has a post on his tumblr pointing to a website, I Write Like, so I thought, oh, hey, why not? Warren got David Foster Wallace; I was thinking, huh, maybe it’ll tell me I write like John Steinbeck! Hell, maybe David Mitchell!!!
Sigh. Going to bed now.
PS - It’s funny. I admit it. Even I think it’s funny.
THE FRIENDLY DICTATORSMeet the Friendly Dictators - three dozen of America’s most embarrassing “friends”, a cunning crew of tyrants and corrupt puppet-presidents who have been rewarded handsomely for their loyalty to U.S. interests.Traditional Dictators seize control through force and often are self-styled “Generals.” Constitutional Dictators hold office through voting fraud or severely restricted elections and are frequently mouthpieces for the military juntas which control the ballot boxes. Both types of dictators are covered here, along with a few tyrannical kings. but don’t look for “enemy dictators” (communists and the like) in this set of cards. These are America’s allies, strange and undemocratic as they may be.
Friendly Dictators often rise to power through bloody CIA-backed coups and rule by terror and torture. Their troops may receive training or advice from the CIA and other U.S. agencies. “Anti-communism” is their common battle cry and a common excuse for political repression. They are linked internationally through extreme right-wing groups such as the World Anti-Communist League Strong Nazi affiliations are typical - some have been known to dress in Nazi paraphernalia and quote from Mein Kampf, while others offer sanctuary for actual Nazi war criminals.
Friendly Dictators usually grow rich, while their countries’ economies go down the drain. U.S. tax dollars and U.S. backed loans have made billionaires of some; others are international drug dealers who also collect CIA paychecks. Rarely are they called to account for their crimes.
Friendly Dictator Trading Cards from 1990, drawn by Bill Sienkiewicz . Click the link for bios and more dictators. Text by Dennis Bernstein & Laura Sydell
Cheers
Muhammad Ali on the Vietnam War Draft
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