Five Bullets 5.9.25

Keith Haring, Louis Cole, Kosmos & more.

Good Morning and Happy Friday friends.

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This morning is cool and rainy here in New York City, and it looks like this month we’re making up for the rain we missed in April.

A Happy (early) Mother’s Day to the moms out there!

Here’s five bullets capturing my attention this week:

• Art: Keith Haring created the logo for Best Buddies a non-profit organization which works toward “ending the social, physical and economic isolation of the 200 million people worldwide with intellectual and developmental disabilities.” Here’s some background on Keith Haring’s logo. I noticed the logo when I opened my jar of Teddie peanut butter which helps support Best Buddies (it’s also delicious).

• History: What was the Cold War? Why was it called the Cold War? Are we in a new one? Historian Dr. Michael Kimmage answers your questions in this Wired video. (Video sound by a close friend and reader!)

• Music: Back in December I shared musician Louis Cole’s Amoeba records picks. This week I wrote about the albums in a blog post: What’s Louis Cole Listening To? Check out how Stevie Wonder, Boards of Canada, and Herbie Hancock have influenced the electro-funk/pop musician.

• Space: A Soviet spacecraft is falling back to Earth this weekend. Kosmos-482 launched from the U.S.S.R in 1972 as part of the Soviet Venera missions to land a robotic craft on Venus but due to a malfunction the craft has been orbiting Earth for 50 years. Kosmos was mostly forgot about until it was re-identified by researchers years later.

• TV: Tsunami: Race Against Time covers the terrifying details of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the deadliest in recorded history. The tsunami, caused by a 9.1 magnitude earthquake, affected 14 countries and over 220,000 people lost their lives. This series isn’t for the faint-of-heart but gave me a better understanding of the enormous scale of this natural disaster.

That’s all for this week! Have a great weekend.

-Keith