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Meet DJ Wika, a 74-Year-Old Lady Who Throws Parties at a Warsaw NightclubWika Szmit's enthusiasm for music, dance, and fun is simply contagious. Who could resist this white-haired lady in cat-eye glasses spinning tunes from the DJ booth of a neon-lit club while seniors get frisky on the dance floor?
Piotr Malecki, a Polish photojournalist, created this short documentary of Wika as part of a series of vignettes about Warsaw. Read an interview with Malecki here. |
"I am such an enthusiast that even if I was planting potatoes...I would insert so much of my energy that they would have to grow there." |
A Nigerian General Works to Stop River Blindness
River blindness (onchocerciasis) is a debilitating illness that causes severe skin inflammation, visual impairment and irreversible blindness. This article profiles a former General in the Nigerian army who learned firsthand of this disease - and after a career as a businessman and politician, is now actively working to build awareness and raise funding to fight this neglected disease.
“I believe bloggers are connecting us. In fact, in some ways bloggers are helping create a reverse wave in our technological age. Bloggers allow for an interactive platform, a two-way dialogue that allows for both online and offline relationships to form.” |
Portraits of Your Favorite Bloggers in Their Natural HabitatsPhotographer Gabriela Herman is a blogger. Herman’s portraits of bloggers reveal the people behind the “curtain” that many of us depend on for information. Herman sees bloggers as connecting members of their audience more than isolating them and began her project with this connectivity in mind.
See a selection of her blogger portraits here - perhaps you'll recognize one of your favorites. |
Julia Child's Recipe for a Thoroughly Modern MarriageUntil she met her future husband, Paul, Julia Child had never given much thought to food (on her own she made do with frozen food). She learned to cook to please Paul; she liked to tell the story of how she had, in her early attempts at cooking, exploded a duck and set the oven on fire.
When they married, Paul's job with the State Dept. took them to Paris - and the rest is history. Read this interesting account of her marriage. |
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Dr. NakaMats - the Man with 3300 Patents
By his count, Dr. NakaMats of Tokyo, Japan has clocked 3,377 patents, or three times as many as Thomas Edison (1,093 and no longer counting). “The big difference between Edison and me,” he says, matter-of-factly, “is that he died when he was 84, while I am now just in the middle of my life.”
Dr. NakaMats' self-described prolific output, his blunt and often deprecating assessment of others, and his somewhat comical tendency to exaggerate make him a bit of a character. But it also makes for an entertaining profile of an unusual inventor whose most famous, indisputable invention was the floppy disk. |