Jean-Paul J.

Sunday night’s #MadMen episode was a superb piece of...

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:06:19 +0100

Sunday night’s #MadMen episode was a superb piece of television. And then this moment made it perfect!

"Ce n’est pas parce que l’homme a soif d’amour qu’il doit se jeter sur la..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:32:00 +0100

“Ce n’est pas parce que l’homme a soif d’amour qu’il doit se jeter sur la première gourde !”

- Pierre Desproges

thefappingllama: sandandglass: Obama’s one-liners during his...

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:00:33 +0100

thefappingllama:

sandandglass:

Obama’s one-liners during his speech at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

Ily idc

Lockheed Super Constellation coming in for landing!

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:05:12 +0100

Lockheed Super Constellation coming in for landing!

“The Riddle” is the UN’s latest video in a...

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:39:59 +0100

“The Riddle” is the UN’s latest video in a campaign to fight legalised homophobia around the world. Spread the word.

"As long as I live under the capitalistic system, I expect to have my life influenced by the demands..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 16:15:24 +0100

“As long as I live under the capitalistic system, I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.”

- William Faulkner

"Exploration is the sport of the scientist"

Tue, 07 May 2013 16:00:34 +0100

“Exploration is the sport of the scientist”

- Auguste Piccard

This moment. That is all.

Mon, 06 May 2013 18:55:51 +0100

This moment. That is all.

"This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly..."

Thu, 02 May 2013 01:21:00 +0100

“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”

- Leonard Bernstein

“The Boy and His Atom” - a fascinating stop-motion...

Wed, 01 May 2013 13:41:06 +0100

“The Boy and His Atom” - a fascinating stop-motion film from our friends @IBM

We’ve got the best-looking Royal couple there is! Lang...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:57:29 +0100

We’ve got the best-looking Royal couple there is! Lang leve Maxima! Lang leve de Koning!

The national anthem is being sung and King Willem-Alexander is...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:11:56 +0100

The national anthem is being sung and King Willem-Alexander is about to speak!

Wilhelmus van Nassouwe
ben ik, van Duitsen bloed,
den vaderland getrouwe
blijf ik tot in den dood.
Een Prinse van Oranje
ben ik, vrij, onverveerd,
den Koning van Hispanje
heb ik altijd geëerd.

The new king appears on the balcony in Amsterdam for the first...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:38:08 +0100

The new king appears on the balcony in Amsterdam for the first time as King. Lang leve de Koning! Oranje Boven!

Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands has just abdicated in favour of...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:22:05 +0100

Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands has just abdicated in favour of her son, Willem-Alexander! Lang leve de Koning!

"Sweden is not producing enough trash, and that’s a problem. To the environmentally-minded members..."

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:36:48 +0100

“

Sweden is not producing enough trash, and that’s a problem.

To the environmentally-minded members of the Bowdoin community, that statement may well have struck you as odd. Surely, in a world that we know to have finite resources, reduced waste production should be a good thing—not so in Sweden.

”

- Find out why it’s a problem in my latest column in The Bowdoin Orient.

Queen Elizabeth II, looking lovely as...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:00:44 +0100

Queen Elizabeth II, looking lovely as ever.

royalwatcher:

Queen Elizabeth II, 1962

now this is a queen, bowing right now at the flawlessness

Hauptbahnhof on Flickr. Zürich main station (the Hauptbahnhof)...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 03:46:17 +0100

Hauptbahnhof on Flickr.

Zürich main station (the Hauptbahnhof) is one of the busiest railway stations in the world: nearly 3000 trains and 400’000 passengers pass through it every day.

Rayon du Soir on Flickr. This shaft of evening light in Geneva...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 03:24:30 +0100

Rayon du Soir on Flickr.

This shaft of evening light in Geneva was too beautiful not to capture on film.

I have long dreamed to travel by train from Europe to Beijing....

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:00:53 +0100

I have long dreamed to travel by train from Europe to Beijing. For now I shall have to contend with myself with documentaries like this one (in German).

Ne courez pas! on Flickr. I spotted these kids running to the...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:00:43 +0100

Ne courez pas! on Flickr.

I spotted these kids running to the pond at the centre of the Jardin Luxembourg in Paris. Their teachers, panting, weren’t far behind.