-Joe
I was wondering when the next time I’d have an opportunity to use trollchrist was.
The fact that the christian god does not exist makes the joke even better…
-FA
Creative Unicef Outdoor advertisement: Dirty Water - Yaratıcı Unicef Dış Mekan reklamı: Kirli Su
Almost 3 year ago in Manhattan, New York, UNICEF devised a very original way of raising awareness to the water problem millions of people across the globe are facing every day. The Dirty Water campaign gave people the chance to buy a bottle of disease-infected water, other people are forced to drink on a daily basis. The water-bottles were kept in vending machines across Manhattan and purchased for $1 each.
We thought we would re publish the idea in case you missed it and needed a reminder.
I love the general concept but I have to believe the bottles didn’t actually contain any diseases. I don’t think the CDC would allow it. Good lord I hope not. I mean - that seems like a VERY BAD IDEA. For a buck? “Hi honey… I know we haven’t been getting along recently. And thank you for signing that insurance policy, sweetheart. Let’s make up. Would you like a drink?”
The word (and concept) of billion is relatively new to human thought. Sure the Ancient Greeks were predicting and naming numbers far larger than a billion, but in popular use the concepts of million and billion are relatively new to human history. A billion was just a really big number-very hard to imagine in real terms, an abstract notion that for most meant something like ‘too much to count’. Etymologically, billion is a fabrication, a 15th century combination of the prefix bi- and the word million, itself a modern word. Coming to English in the 1680s, from French mathematician Nicolas Chuquet who named a million million a byllion in his unpublished work Le Triparty en la Science des Nombres from 1484. In England and Germany numbers were compiled in groups of sixes, later altered by the French into groups of three and becoming a thousand million, which is its current US meaning. Chuquet was interested in naming huge numbers and devised the system of grouping by sixes, summarizing it this way starting with: million, the second mark byllion, the third mark tryllion, the fourth quadrillion, the fifth quyillion, the sixth sixlion, the seventh septyllion, the eighth ottyllion, the ninth nonyllion and so on with others as far as you wish to go…
Carl Sagan made the notion and number both popular and accessible describing the size of the universe and the number of stars and galaxies in it. Although famous for the phrase ‘billions and billions’, it wasn’t a phrase that Sagan had used by the time he became both known and parodied for it. He later embraced it as a calling card, opening speeches and presentations with his signature ‘quote’. A billion can be visualized as a cube of marbles 1000 marbles high 1000 marbles wide and 1000 marbles deep. This cube would be approximately 40 feet to a side-and weigh many many tons.
On October 31, 2011 the world population is estimated to have reached 7 billion, adding one billion people in just 42 years.
I urge every one of you who has struggled with depression, anxiety, panic, or self-harm to read this: http://thebloggess.com/2012/01/the-fight-goes-on/
This is Jenny Lawson - The Bloggess. And she is my hero. She has been for a great while, but just when I thought I couldn’t love her any…
