“The problem is not people being uneducated. The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught.”
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Richard Feynman
Repair Cafés are free meeting places and they’re all about repairing things (together). In the place where a Repair Café is located, you’ll find tools and materials to help you make any repairs you need. On clothes, furniture, electrical appliances, bicycles, crockery, appliances, toys, et cetera. You’ll also find expert volunteers, with repair skills in all kinds of fields.
Visitors bring their broken items from home. Together with the specialists they start making their repairs in the Repair Café. It’s an ongoing learning process. If you have nothing to repair, you can enjoy a cup of tea or coffee. Or you can lend a hand with someone else’s repair job. You can also get inspired at the reading table – by leafing through books on repairs and DIY.
There are over 1.500 Repair Cafés worldwide. Visit one in your area or start one yourself!
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प्रिय लिखकर
priya likhkar
after writing "beloved"
मैं नीचे लिख दूँ नाम तुम्हारा
main niche likh doon naam tumhara
I'll write down your name
कुछ जगह बीच में छोड़ दूँ
kuchh jagah beech mein chhod doon
I'll leave some space in between
नीचे लिख दूँ
neeche likh doon
ill write down
‘सदा तुम्हारा’
'sada tumhara'
always yours
लिखा बीच में क्या यह तुमको पढ़ना है
likha beech mein kya yeh tumko padhna hai
what I've written in the middle that you'll have to read
कागज़ पर मन की परिभाषा का अर्थ समझना है
kaagaz par man ki paribhasha ka arth samjhna hai
you'll have to understand the definition of my heart written on the paper
जो भी अर्थ निकालोगी तुम वह मुझको स्वीकार है
jo bhi arth nikaalogi tum woh mujhko swikaar hai
whatever meaning you'll decipher is welcomed by me
झुके नयन, मौन अधर या कोरा कागज़
jhuke nayan,maun adhar ya kora kagaz
bowed eyes,silent lips or blank paper
अर्थ सभी का प्यार है
arth sabhi ka pyar hai
everything's meaning is love
– Ashutosh Rana
what is even more heartwarming is that he(poet) courted his now wife using this poem
the hopeless romantic in me couldn't resist making a post about it when i saw it
A new research group used machine learning to track color changes in common materials and items, below is their findings for all color changes over time, they used 7000+ items from the 1800s to now to determine color changes in the most common items.
Below are the colors of cars by year, notice how the majority of cars are grey, white, or black compared to twenty years ago.
These aren't data points, but they are comparisons between the 'modern' homes of the 70s and 80s compared to the modern homes of today.
Carpets have equally had the same treatment of grey added to them! The most common color of carpet is now grey or beige.
Even locations that used to scream with color for decades have now modernized to becoming boring minimalist (and I love minimalism) personality-less locations.
The world is becoming colorless, why?
source paper
Caroline Tompkins
Dasht-e Kavir is a large desert in the middle of the Iranian Plateau. Spanning roughly 30,000 square miles (77,600 square kilometers), temperatures in the “Great Salt Desert” can soar up to 122°F (50°C), causing extreme vaporization that turns marshes and mud grounds into swirling crusts of salt, as seen in this segment of the desert here.
See more here: https://bit.ly/3JZmiNg
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Source imagery: Maxar