University of California Research — Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

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UC San Diego’s Special Collections holds over 8500 works done by Dr. Seuss. Lynda Claassen walks us through some of the interesting unpublished works of this collection.

FEATURING: Lynda Claassen, Director of The Mandeville Special Collections, University of California, San Diego

For more information: http://libraries.ucsd.edu/collections…

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UC San Diego’s Special Collections (ucsdspecialcollections) has over 8,500 works by Dr. Seuss. We got a behind-the-scenes peak at some of his unpublished work from the collection which included his “Noble Failures,” a deck of playing cards and sketches for future books.

Another World by simonebyrne ~ Blairgowrie, Australia

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The Geirangerfjorden in the Sunnmøre region of Møre og Romsdal county, Norway

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The Emerald Pool and Waterfall – Baja California, Mexico ~ Photo by Steve Sieren

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Inside Seljalandsfoss, Iceland ~ by Fabio Serra

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13 Of The Most Beautiful Proposals For A Planned Pedestrian Bridge In London | DeMilked

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Tower Bridge isn’t the only bridge in London, though it is the most iconic. Well, The London Borough of Wandsworth is having a competition for a new bridge between Nine Elms and Pimlico, and the results so far seem somewhat crazy. It has to be a pedestrian and a cyclists bridge, so the plans feature many long and winding ramps. Other than that, it’s a free game, and people are going wild with the plans. While there are plenty of regular, one ark, this-is-somewhat-futuristic bridges, others are totally crazy, looking like alien infestation or a ruler that someone dropped on the river. Some add lights, some even enclose the bridge!

Of course, you can’t go too wild. The envisaged capital funding would be around 40 million of Queen’s own pound (around $60 million). So the designers shouldn’t go too crazy, but, as you can see from some of the projects, they still do. A few even think that straight line from A to B is an affront to good taste and are trying to make the route longer via various curving designs.

Maybe it’s London itself that brings out the ambition in people.

More info: nepbridgecompetition.co.uk (h/t: laughingsquid)

As a Londoner, albeit by adoption, I can attest the need for additional cross river facilities. Compared with some other European river cities, London has relatively few crossings and this particular stretch, between Vauxhall and Chelsea Bridges, is particularly long. The Wandsworth side is also currently undergoing extensive redevelopment, with a new US Embassy leading the way.

As to the above allusion to straight lines and short distances, anyone familiar with London knows that a straight line is seldom the shortest distance between any two points in town. Given the considerable distance between the two older bridges mentioned earlier, a few more meters will hardly matter.